Laurence Ferrari
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Laurence Ferrari in 2015
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| Born |
5 July 1966 Aix-les-Bains, France |
| Education | Sorbonne University |
| Occupation | TV host Le Grand 8, Tirs croisés |
| Employer | D8, I-Télé and Europe1 |
| Spouse(s) | Renaud Capuçon (m. 2009) |
Laurence Ferrari (French: [lo.ʁɑ̃s fe.ʁɑ.ʁi] ; born 5 July 1966) is a French journalist, best known as a former anchor of the TF1 weekday evening news Le 20H. She also work for Europe1 sometimes.
Ferrari was born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, the daughter of a former mayor of the city and member of the French National Assembly, Gratien Ferrari, of Italian ancestry from Emilia-Romagna. She attended the École Française des Attachés de Presse (French School for Press Attachés) in Lyon and graduated from the Sorbonne University with a Master of 'Communication Politique and Sociale'. She is the eldest of three sisters and an accomplished pianist.
She started her career in 1986 as a stringer at the French news agency, AFP, and Le Figaro Magazine. She also worked at the French language radio station, Europe 1, as a researcher with special responsibility for health policy. She began her television career in 1994 with Michel Drucker in Studio Gabriel on France 2 and thereafter with Jean-Pierre Pernaut in "Combien ça coûte ?" on TF1. In 2001 she co-hosted the TF1 Sunday evening magazine Sept à Huit with her former husband, Thomas Hugues. After her divorce, she moved in 2006 to Canal + to present the channel's weekly political magazine "Dimanche +" where she covered the French presidential election of 2007. In June 2008, she became the new anchor of "Le 20 Heures de TF1" (the flagship TV news programme, which has the highest ratings in Europe), replacing its long-serving anchor Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, and taking over the weekday programme on 25 August 2008.
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