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“Loft Story”, twenty years later: Loana, Christophe, Julie, Kenza ... where have they become?

2021-04-08T12:52:42.300Z


As we approach the twentieth anniversary of the reality show, "Loft Story", we have found several of the candidates. They tell us about them


It was April 26, 2001. On entering a villa, where they were going to be filmed almost permanently for ten weeks, the participants of the first “Loft Story” on M6 were going to become stars without knowing it, sometimes followed by nearly 12 million viewers.

On the occasion of the show "Loft Story, 20 years after", broadcast on C8 this Thursday at 9:05 pm, several of them tell us what they have become.

Loana, still hospitalized

“My life began twenty years ago,” Loana told us last month.

Winner of this first “Loft Story”, the bimbo has turned into a reality TV icon.

For several years, the young woman has capitalized on her notoriety, but for ten years, she has been talked about for her setbacks.

Badly surrounded, she exposes herself on social networks, victim of domestic violence, struggles against her morbid obesity and her multiple addictions which regularly lead her to the hospital.

Loana, 43, should be absent from the C8 party this Thursday.

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According to those around her, she has been hospitalized for several days due to a severe form of Covid-19, which required intubation.

"Out of business", according to her relatives, she was still very tired and under observation at the beginning of the week.

Christophe and Julie want 800 euros per interview

Christophe and Julie are married and have two children.

PHOTOPQR / La Dépêche du Midi / Manu Massip

Victorious alongside Loana, Christophe found love with Julie, another candidate.

Their romance started in the "Loft" has continued for 20 years.

The lovebirds moved quickly, 40 minutes from Toulouse, in a house bought thanks to the earnings of the show (

Editor's note: more than 200,000 euros

).

They have been married since 2003 and have two children: Matis, 18, and Solan, 10.

Julie, 44, is now a sales representative for a hotel chain and Christophe, the same age, is unemployed.

As the anniversary of the “Loft” approaches, the couple want to build on this newfound notoriety.

He asks for 800 euros per interview.

Steevy still plays comedy

He made an impression with his peroxidized blonde hairstyle and his Eeyore plush toy.

Eliminated after a month of adventure, Steevy capitalized on this popularity.

"My concern was to last," explains the one who caught the eye of Laurent Ruquier and integrated his broadcasts, on TV and on the radio.

“He taught me everything,” he recalls.

These twenty years have been my university.

"

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Even today, at the age of 41, he is still part of the "Big Heads" on RTL ... and continues the theater.

From July 29, he will share the poster "Les beaux-pères" with Jean-Pierre Castaldi.

“Loft Story” was a godsend and I didn't see the time go by, ”he says.

Laure and Kenza are journalists

"The

Loft

is like a beautiful love story, we keep wonderful memories but we lose sight of each other afterwards", laughs Laure de Lattre, 45 years old.

At the exit of the show, the Parisian then a student of literature, finds herself lonely.

"Angela Lorente

(Editor's note: the editor in chief of the show)

warned me that my popularity was going to explode, I replied:

I do not see who it will interest me to see me brush my teeth!

At the exit, it was madness.

Fortunately, my life hasn't changed too much, except for my butcher's gaze and I still have the same apartment.

"

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With its new notoriety, the pretty brunette connects contracts with Téva and Europe 1. Today, mother of two children, she is editor of the newspaper "Les nouvelles esthétiques", a beauty magazine intended for professionals.

“I lost sight of the other lofters, we didn't have too many affinities inside, they tried to exclude me every week.

I didn't have any more outside.

She will not participate in the C8 show.

“I am uncomfortable because the

Loft

is embodied by Loana, and what is happening to her is appalling.

The atmosphere is not at the party.

"

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For his part, Kenza Braiga faced a whirlwind.

“I had to regain my dignity when I left.

The

Loft

was an amusement park where we had fun, but I already had in mind to do radio.

For two or three years later, I was invited as

Kenza of the loft,

but I wanted to get my last name back .... We had become famous on a vacuum, we weren't doing anything special.

I then had to prove myself twice as much.

"

It goes on to contract with Radio Orient, France Bleu or Sud Radio.

Today, at 44, she works at Webradios éditions, a group that publishes digital thematic stations.

“And I wrote seven books that served as therapy,” she concludes.

Fabrice does business

Steevy, Laure, Fabrice and Delphine, here in 2002. LP / Olivier Corsan

For Fabrice, 49, the “Loft” is an old story.

Anyone who had a romance with Laure now has a whole different life.

“After two years, I did not collapse under the proposals, he says.

So I resumed normal activity.

However, it was impossible to resume his role as a household appliance salesman.

The young man now works in his finance company, "a kind of therapy for eight years".

In 2011 and then in 2014, Fabrice became a dad and launched into events for children.

“I also manage an Aquapark and do coaching for an Anglo-Saxon company,” adds the one who today has no contact with his former roommates.

“Except Julie and Christophe, who are due to come this summer.

"

Source: leparis

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