"Do you have any stuff for me, André?"
», Laughs Nikos Aliagas while teasing one of the employees of the company Goétic ateliers, in a discreet industrial zone of Pontault-Combault (Seine-et-Marne).
Far from the spotlight of television sets, the conductor of "The Voice" (whose second part of the battles will be broadcast this Saturday evening at 9:05 pm on TF 1) comes to check that Monday for the prints of his new photography exhibition .
Meticulous, in a good mood, the “hisoireaulier” of TF 1 has been mandated by the City of Paris to exhibit outdoors, from April 20.
Around thirty photographs of “Parisiennes” (the name of the exhibition) will be scattered on 24 panels hung on the gates of the town hall in rue du Rivoli until May 10.
As you check the prints of your shots, what state of mind are you in?
NIKOS ALIAGAS
.
I want to put others first rather than myself.
It's paradoxical because I do a public job.
The more time passes, the more I tell myself that what goes on behind the lens interests me more ...
With this new season of "The Voice", you are moreover more behind the scenes ...
My role is less defined because I am alone with the talents
(Editor's note: families are not there for health reasons)
.
I am in the feeling, nothing is written except the launches.
Some think that my benevolence is played but it is the reality behind the scenes.
I cannot be insensitive to a person in pure emotion because they have just lost or won.
I am also careful in my interviews for
50 minutes inside
(TF 1).
An artist takes a year to make a record.
Who am I to rush him?
If I don't like it, I don't invite, it's simple.
And benevolence is not synonymous with complacency.
Since the “Star Academy” (2001-2008), what have you learned?
At first, I didn't know how to animate.
Before S
tar Ac ',
I interviewed heads of state, I dealt with the conflict in the Middle East or the situation in Cyprus.
I said yes to the
Star Academy
without knowing why.
I was making a good living, I had built a small path, but I had an appointment with this something that would change my destiny.
Then I realized that it was a hard and technical job.
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Is it a relief to see that “The Voice” is still so popular?
It's a miracle.
Each year, nothing is gained because the public does not belong to you.
He gives you your place.
All the teams wet the shirt in view of the context.
I must be over two hundred Covid tests, all emissions combined.
I don't have a career plan because in this job, there are no rules.
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Nikos Aliagas, outside the media
I have immeasurable respect for those who have crossed fashions like Michel
(Editor's note:
Drucker
)
with whom I speak a lot.
I love Jean-Pierre Foucault too.
I hope he will present Miss France for a long time to come.
Me, I stay in my niche, the music and the emotions with "The Voice", "The Secret Song" ... As long as one follows me, I will tell stories without telling myself.
Didn't you worry about Camille Combal's arrival on TF 1?
Not at all.
It is the new guard of TF 1 which comforts us in the fact that we are on the channel where there are good talents.
I even took part in his Christmas show
(Editor's note: “La grande incruste” on December 26)
.
I say:
Welcome
Camille
,
as I say
Welcome Alessandra (Editor's note: Sublet)
.
You need the right distance with all of this.
As in the photo, too close, the shot is blurry, too far away, we can't see anything.
Do you not miss dealing with the news?
I have always been in a hybrid balance.
During S
tar Ac
, I would send my papers to the Greek Sunday Journal from my box, where I had a political page, and I would go on the air two seconds later.
I was a long time columnist at LCI.
When Greek TV asks me to get an interview with Emmanuel Macron because he comes to Greece, I try it
(it was broadcast on March 24, Editor's note)
.
And there is a context.
I was already presenting the bicentenary ceremony
(Editor's note: the war of independence of the Ottoman Empire)
, because it is a cause that touches me.
Since I was a kid I wear the traditional Greek costume, I am very involved.
Afterwards when I ask him
"what have you learned after three years at the head of France?"
»Is another story that I want to tell.
Would you like to come back to political interviews?
Why not do it again on Greek TV since they are asking for it!
In France, I don't have time.
After the morning in Europe 1, I needed to regain my freedom.
Finishing the filming of
The Voice
at two o'clock in the morning and taking the microphone again at four o'clock, was not tenable.
In my head, I could only do it for a year.
At 52, I am no longer old enough.
I want to spend time with my children.
Is your passion for photography breathing?
Yes, another breath in the turmoil of planning.
Taking a portrait of Robbie Williams at the NRJ Music Awards with the seconds counting down before I take it on the air helps channel my stress.
Les Parisiennes inspired the exhibition by Nikos Aliagas.
LP / Olivier Lejeune
Everything is going too fast, there is a lot of noise, each image replaces the other.
The photo is a parenthesis.
Why did you choose Parisiennes as a theme?
This elder in her hairdressing salon, these caregivers, this ill-feeling teenager ... These heroines upset me, remind me of those of my childhood when I walked with my father in the 10th arrondissement.
Being exhibited by the town hall of Paris is a symbol, a nod to my immigrant father.
It is a tribute to this France which knows how to reach out.