Gilles Verdez


Gilles Verdez is a French journalist, television and radio columnist. He is the co-author of books about football in France as well as politic.

Biography

After graduating from the Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris in 1988, he started his journalist carrer at Le Parisien newspaper. On May 5th, 1992, Gilles is sitting in the Armand Cesari Stadium in the city of Furiani, Corsica and is part of the many wounded. In September 2009, when he was editor at Le Parisien, he was dismissed by General Director Jean Hornain along with the chief editor Dominique de Montvalon and the editor Phulippe Duley. This happened due to decreasing sales of 4%.
In November 2009 he became deputy director of the sales of France-Soir and director of the sports department from August 2011 to January 2012.
Chronicler of the show, we remade the game, on RTL, to I-TV and RFI, and author of five books on football, he was a reporter for L'Équipe.
He joined the show Touche pas à mon poste! as a columnist during 2013-2014 seasons, 2014-2015 and 2015-2016, and the team of Cyril Hanouna in broadcasting Feet in the flat in the radio station Europe 1. He appears regularly on CNews.

Awards

Proposal
In February 2017, Gilles Verdez publicly proposed to his girlfriend, Fatou, during Touche Pas à Mon Poste TV show. After expressing multiple reasons that made him loving her, he asked her to marry him. Her reaction, or rather the lack of it, created a media storm.

Television