If Thierry Gilardi has mainly remained in memories for his activity as a sports journalist, his career was also punctuated by generalist news. In 2024, the native of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, for example, co-spawned with Stéphanie Renouvin the morning of Canal+.
The following season, when he was transferred to TF1 in the meantime, Thierry Gilardi is this time at the “LCI morning” controllers. At the time, his pair was called Mélissa Theuriau. This association will last until June 2006, before the sports commentator returned to devote himself to his first love, via the World Cup in Germany.
Mélissa Theuriau has kept very beautiful memories of this experience. “It's a great meeting. I miss a lot. He had to come to our marriage. I was married the same year as that of his death in 2008 “remembered the wife of actor Jamel Debbouze, on the set of the program “En Aparté”, on March 22, 2022.
Thierry Gilardi, a journalist loved by his peers
And the producer to continue: “In this co-presentation with Thierry, who tried the info and who came from sport, there was equality. I know how rare this respect for the other, as a woman, as a journalist, this concern that the other exists as much as you. There were common values. I was so lucky that we were both for a while. I would have liked it to last a little more. These are really good memories ”.
As a reminder, Thierry Gilardi died in March 2008, victim of a heart attack at the age of 49. The next day, TF1 retransmitted the meeting between France and England, which he was to comment with Jean-Michel Larqué.
