PortraitPassed by “Paris Match” and “Le Point”, he gave a more political turn to his career by becoming a regular at CNews, the Bolloré group’s news channel. Now at the head of the “Sunday Journal”, soon to be owned by the conservative billionaire, he is already suspected of influencing the editorial line and placing his relatives.
The previous times, Frédéric Taddeï came without his camera, as a friend. This evening of 1998, he decides to film. The new cocktail of “Jerome” could provide an amusing sequence for “Paris Dernier”, his show on Paris Première, in which he tours the capital’s trendy parties. The decor is delightfully old-fashioned: a bourgeois apartment on rue Etienne-Marcel, right in the center of the capital, with antique furniture and engravings on the walls. The casting, always successful.
In the entrance, novelist François Weyergans and Canal+ journalist Daphné Roulier. In the corridor, a society columnist on TF1, Stephan Bern. On the sofa in the living room, Filip Nikolic, the star of the boy band 2Be3 (“Leaving one day without return, erasing our love…”), discusses with another writer, Marc-Edouard Nabe. A stranger in a suit and tie twirls from one guest to another. Frédéric Taddeï stops his camera on him: “Aren’t you a little ashamed, at your age, of still having parties with your parents?” » General laughter.
“Jérôme had something we didn’t have, this apartment to receive people. He was networking from morning to night, it was a full-time job. A regular at Jérôme Béglé’s evenings
The stranger is 27 years old. His name is Jérôme Béglé, written in Paris Match on culture and people. We are with his mother, a lawyer. The question was mocking, Béglé’s answer facing the camera is pragmatic: “At home, there are 40 square meters, and putting fifty people in 40 square meters is relatively difficult. There’s a little bit more room here, to pack more people. » But not just any.
A regular, who was making her debut as a television host and prefers to remain anonymous, still laughs: “We were all beginners, we didn’t have a circle and not a lot of network, but Jérôme had something we didn’t have, this apartment to receive people. He was networking from morning to night, it was a full-time job. When we could bring someone interesting, he had this kind of feverishness: “So you got him, can he come?” »
Pascal Sevran, the host of “La Chance aux chansons” on France 2, had returned amazed from an evening spent laughing with the writers Yann Moix and Frédéric Beigbeder. “Jérôme Béglé knows everyone who moves, sings, dances and writes in Paris”, it is “a born matchmaker”, he noted in his diary (It looks like it’s going to snow, Albin Michel, 2002).
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