They chose to send letters to farmers.
An approach which leads them to pass in front of the cameras of the show “Love is in the meadow” (this Monday evening from 9:5 pm on M6).
Why did they decide to become contenders?
What click pushes anonymous people to reveal their romantic dates to viewers?
Suitors for this 15th season have agreed to explain the reasons for their participation.
Obviously, everyone has only one word: find love.
Most evoke "a crush" for the filmed portrait of the farmer.
To hear them, finding the rare pearl is not so easy today.
Yolanda, contender for the energetic Jean-Claude, watched the show for several years.
“I am teleworking.
The gym, friends… We quickly made the rounds of our acquaintances, ”smiles the elegant sixty-year-old.
"I had trouble milking the cows"
For young people, the same puzzle.
Lucile, a bright thirty-something with blue eyes, is passionate about permaculture.
“I wasn't writing for a show, but for Jérôme.
Just because we're young and pretty doesn't mean we go out at parties.
My interests are focused on nature.
The men who are interested in it are not on dating sites or in nightclubs.
"
But is life on the farm a decisive factor for everyone?
"It didn't scare me, but it was Eric who touched me", assures Cathy, 48 years old, before adding with a laugh: "I had trouble, but I finally managed to milk them. cows !
"The discreet Yolanda felt, she, ready to" change her office life "for the countryside, but especially fell for Jean-Claude:" I was moving at that time, so it was good.
"
Participating also means accepting competition under the cameras, whether it's speed dating or on the farm.
The second dates are ... three!
“There is necessarily a competition.
In the speed dating room, I had butterflies in my stomach because you can't help comparing yourself.
I was aware that not being chosen could be painful.
I was hoping it wouldn't be Danielly in front of her because she was talking all the time ... When I saw during the viewing that it was Karine who insisted on Jean-Claude, I said to myself:
Thank you Karine !
Yolanda laughs.
It is true that the role of pretender is not easy to carry.
This is done:
I apply
.
But Jean-Claude welcomed me, so I quickly forgot about him.
"
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Above all, the suitor takes the risk of a filmed rake.
"I would have experienced it more badly than off camera of course", admits Alexandre, who sometimes blushes at being recognized in the street.
In addition, you have to seduce by knowing that you are being observed.
“I am introverted, concedes the young man of 24 years.
Talking about feelings was a bit complicated.
I kept my eye on the cameramen from time to time.
But once I saw Mathieu, to whom I wrote, I no longer paid attention.
"
Cathy, Auvergnat Eric contender, loved her experience.
But this mother has measured her attitude "not to shame her children".
All insist, however, that they felt natural.
“Obviously, there are cameras, so it's not entirely spontaneous.
I would be lying to say otherwise.
There is a little restraint, but I was sincere ”, underlines Yolanda.
A sudden and sometimes complicated celebrity
The show is also accompanied by a notoriety that some did not see coming.
“I didn't do it to be publicized.
For me, this program was just a social bond to create encounters between people from the city and the countryside.
My children showed me mocking sentences on the networks, confides Stéphanie, in the running to seduce the gardener David.
It made me laugh, but I didn't expect it.
"
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The bubbly Cathy is also surprised by these "negative comments" towards pretenders.
“Viewers think they know everything about us, when reality is more complex.
People don't see us exactly as we are.
There is editing and not all that we could feel, live… Only Eric saw who I was totally.
We don't expect those reviews that we usually see for stars.
But I know that I will return quietly in anonymity and that suits me very well.
"
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And no question of talking to them about a reality TV show, at the risk of outraging them.
"Let's face it, I'm too old and I don't have the physique for the job to participate in these things," adds Cathy, animated.
Love is in the meadow,
it has nothing to do with it.
We come as we are.
Writing a letter is a return to authenticity.
It's more sincere than dating sites.
"
However, the adventure is not experienced the same way by everyone.
During certain sequences of the episode of Monday, October 19, Alexandre and Mathieu have been complicit.
Discreet winks that did not please the second contender.
“He stopped talking to me after the viewing.
He said I had been disrespectful.
That he had values and I didn't ”, Alexandre wonders.
What does it matter finally, he is delighted to see these images every Monday evening.
“We are lucky that these strong memories are engraved.
And that is not given to everyone.
"
