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Laurent Broomhead

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Laurent Broomhead (born 5 February 1954) is a French radio and television broadcaster and producer, specialized in science and health. As a horse riding enthusiast, he owns and raises thoroughbreds. Laurent Broomhead was born in Paris in the 17th arrondissement. While he was a student in preparatory classes of mathematics at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, he was noticed on 1 February 1972 as a brilliant candidate on the game show Des chiffres et des lettres broadcast on the second French channel. He then studied electronic engineering at the ENSEEIHT (École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, d'Électrotechnique, d'Informatique, d'Hydraulique et des Télécommunications of Toulouse). When he left school in 1976, he became a science journalist at Sciences et Avenir until 1985. He also wrote a number of books. He currently publishes a monthly chronicle in the magazine Profession vendeur. Patrice Laffont took his young Count down wiz to Un sur cinq, still on Antenne 2. The engineer was in charge of a science section. In 1978, upon Jean-Pierre Elkabbach's request, Laurent Broomhead presented the weather in Patrick Poivre d'Arvor's news, a section he created. For four years, he popularized a more scientific approach to the weather forecast. From 1979 to 1983,Laurent Broomhead produced and broadcast scientific programs such as Objectif Demain and Planète Bleue. He was then the youngest French TV producer. Again, he paved the way for future scientific programs such as C'est pas sorcier. Laurent Broomhead was the first to show the cloning of calves embryos. He explained the test tube babies in Les bébés de l'an 2000. From 1991 to 2000, Laurent Broomhead returned to television to co-host the French version of Pyramid with Patrice Laffont and Marie-Ange Nardi. The viewers elected the triplet best TV hosts, twice, at the septs d'or ceremony. Besides, Broomhead also won Questions pour un champion'''s TV presenters' trophy. He commented the Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999 live from Fécamp. He also took part in the twelfth Nuit des Étoiles"".
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