Jérôme Pitorin

Biography: Jérôme Pitorin, born September 29, 1971 in Bressuire (Deux-Sèvres), is a French journalist, producer, director and television host. After hosting, producing and directing numerous programs for the TF1, M6 and NRJ 12 channels for several years, he joined France 5 in 2010 to host the travel magazine Échappées belles. Since 2015, he has written a column in La Quotidienne on the same channel. While still in high school, he was already writing his first articles, which were published in La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest. His baccalaureate in hand, he enrolled for studies in communication in Poitiers. In 1993, he began his career at TF1 as a trainee journalist and production assistant. For nine years, he alternated reporting for Y'a pas photo, chronicles for Exclusif and Coucou c'est nous! the return, and hidden cameras for How much does it cost?. He then became the author and director of Côté 5e, Côté Week-end on the channel La Cinquième. In 2004, he created his own production company: “Ça C Fait Productions”. He is working on the French adaptation of It's clean! for M6 then realizes and produces the program. In 2006, he joined the tele-hook Nouvelle Star to interview the candidates in the queue before becoming its editor-in-chief for two seasons. In 2008, he made his first documentary entitled Air Guitar Heroes and broadcast on Canal+. In 2009, he returned to TF1 as a columnist for the show Beware of received ideas presented by Jean-Pierre Foucault and Sébastien Cauet2, then as executive producer of Petites Stars le Grand Soir presented by Nikos Aliagas and Christine Bravo. On NRJ 12, he hosts a new game, La Main, presents the reality TV show À la recherche du grand amour alongside Victoria Silvstedt as well as Tout est bon dans le salon. Since September 2010, he has presented the travel magazine Échappées belles on France 5, alternating with Sophie Jovillard and Ismaël Khelifa. In 2012, he published with Sophie Jovillard a travel guide to the most beautiful cities in Europe: Nos Échappées Belles. During the summer of 2015, he also acted as an expert with Stéphane Bern for the fourth season of the program Le Village Préferé des Français3. At the start of the school year, he hosts a column on travels in La Quotidienne on France 5, alternating with his companions from Échappées Belles.