Fifth daily of the first week of this 10th season, and fatigue is already felt among the thirteen candidates of the “Star Academy”.
It is easy to tear there as lessons and rehearsals follow one another at the castle of Vives-Eaux in Dammarie-les-Lys (Seine-et-Marne).
As the summary of a new day begins, here is Enola, wrapped in a towel, worrying about her sore throat, fearing pharyngitis.
“What is pharyngitis?
asks Léa blandly.
Léa, certainly one of the stars of the program on whom the production, which puts her a lot forward in the choice of sequences, seems to count on to animate the daily life.
Surely because of these small projections of which she is capable with a disarming naturalness.
“Me, I will be the Beyoncé, and the others, they will be the others…”
"As long as he doesn't ask me to play the pig, me, it's OK", she says after the theater class where she was more proactive than before, talking about the pants she wears who hides her "small shapes that she didn't like before", and which, now, "she likes".
While rehearsing with Anisha and Enola for their trio of divas, here she is daring, “I will be Beyoncé, and the others, they will be the others… It's not mean, it's the truth”.
On social networks, some Internet users point to its omnipresence.
If Léa is Parisian — and, from what the production shows us, "not bad, but damn she's boring", as Louise Attaque sang —, it's not only her in this summary to selected pieces.
Thus, we could see the forbidden heads of the apprentices discovering the pole dance bars on which they toiled with more or less grace and success.
“Madam, you went to the wrong school, we are going to have a problem…” The academicians were treated to a pole dance lesson.
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“Madam, you went to the wrong school, we're going to have a problem… Me, pole dancing?
says Enola… “Don't judge yourself or each other,” warned Claire, the bar teacher and pro.
" Have fun !
“The sequence is nice.
Stanislas flexes his muscles and rises with disconcerting ease that makes his buddies curse.
And yet, they put themselves there, appreciate.
"Anisha, it's my little sun"
Pierre, the theater teacher, had asked the students to bring a personal object and present it.
Chris touches the assistance by presenting his application number to the "Star Ac", explaining that he hesitated to present himself, his grandfather having just been hospitalized.
“He has since left,” he slips.
And when I see this number, I see my grandfather.
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An even stronger emotion when Anisha presents her guitar, which she takes out of its case, the first she has been able to buy herself, and which she shows from the front.
"It's the perfect representation of what I was and what I still am, it represents my childhood, how I was hurt and the wounds that it left," explains the young woman from Madagascar, returning the instrument to reveal its gutted back.
"In the space of a week, I've grown a lot and I've forgotten that," she adds, pointing to the gaping hole in the box.
"You showed me this part of me," she breathes, showing the back intact.
In the room, Louis, Chris or even Cenzo cannot hold back their tears.
"Anisha, it's my little sun", slips the latter.
"He's a formidable opponent and poto"
Tears again for Tiana, because of the storm that broke out during Yanis' dance class – during which her dog invites herself on the floor – or even when making a phone call to her family.
The youngest cracks.
Tiredness.
She is comforted by Carla.
“She's a bit like our little baby, she's the youngest, we want to be there for her… If she's not well”.
Amisse, who risks elimination during the prime, hesitates on the choice of the song with which she will defend her place.
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Those for whom the pressure rises, and who show it, or not, are the three designated who risk elimination, Ahcène, Amisse and Julien.
The first has opted for "Bohemian Rhapsody", by Queen, the second has not yet chosen her title but declares herself "determined", to understand determined.
"He's a formidable opponent and poto", slips the last, who displays a rather surprising nonchalance.
This Saturday, the others have a surprise in store for them and will sing them “We were beautiful”, by Louane.
At the end of the day, we relax with a little cat in the corridors of the castle...