Fred Courant, former presenter of This is not rocket science alongside Jamy on France 3, returned to the news by giving an interview to the site The Daily. The opportunity to see him again in a video where he is almost unrecognizable.
Fred Courant marked the world of television. He started his career as a journalist. In 1985, he worked for the magazine Thursday’s event and The Daily of Paris. Four years later, he joined the Canal Santé channel. But it was in 1992 that his career took a new turn when he joined France Télévisions. With Jamy Gourmaudcurrently at the helm of Jamy’s World on France 3, he creates This is not rocket science, a program that has been so successful that it has been broadcast for more than 20 years on the channel. In 2013, Fred Courant announced that he had been fired by France 3. He bounced back in 2015 by founding The Sorcerer’s Spirit, a project funded through a crowdfunding campaign. “Making science accessible to as many people as possible means learning a lot of things while keeping a playful spirit“, he said to TVMag.
Holidays on Reunion Island to find your family
What has happened since? If he remains discreet in the media, our colleagues from Reunion and Indian Ocean daily newspaper were able to interview him when he put down his suitcases on Reunion Island for holidays. The 62-year-old journalist is enjoying his stay to spend time with his wife and children”who settled there“, specifies the media. “I love coming here. I came several times to shoot subjects on the volcano. I also worked on the cultivation of vanilla. It’s important that people know how the vanilla in their pot of yogurt is grown.“, he said this Sunday, January 22.
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Fred Courant as you’ve (almost) never seen him
The interview that Fred Courant gave to the Reunion newspaper was filmed and the video was posted on YouTube. The opportunity to see the journalist metamorphosed. In fact, he wears a graying beard and disheveled hair”who are a bit thinner“as noted by our colleagues in their article. Almost unrecognizable, he accessorized his outfit with a red bandana that he tied around his neck. During this exchange, he returned to the success of This is not rocket science, revealing that even today, he meets people who remember the show well. “There are people who say thank you to me because they have discovered a lot of things with this program. Some tell me that it was thanks to our work that they decided to pursue a career in research or teaching. It’s awesome. I tell them that I just did my job. We worked a lot for that. But the result pleases“, he explained.
