If they went through the same show to make a name for themselves, Sofiane and Jean-Pascal are not ready to spend their holidays together! Invited to Jordan Deluxe this week, the first, who was a candidate during the 4th season, has indeed revealed that some of Jean-Pascal’s comments were still not digested on his side and probably never will be.
Indeed, while all the former academicians of this season broadcast in 2004 had decided to come together for an album in tribute to Gregory Lemarchal and that a TV movie had been shot on his life, Jean-Pascal Lacoste had estimated that all this was just a matter of “business around the disease“.
A judgment very badly perceived by Sofiane, very friend with the young singer who died in 2007, at only 24 years old, of cystic fibrosis. “Hey brother, you can do what you want, discredit us, dirty us… We’re a special season, we have a special winner, what we lived between us is special and you can never question that“, he wrote to her at the time. And nothing is forgiven according to the interview given this week. Indeed, he believes that he has “touched something sacred“.”He’s not my buddy. It’s zero and it will stay zero. I don’t blame him but hey, he’s not my friend“, he continued, remaining on his positions. “He dared to say we were doing it for the money. (…) When you do things from the heart and what’s more you’re dirtied by someone who knows where we’ve been and who knows the trick (…) It comes from the family there between quotation marks“, finally lamented the one who has been going out for a few months with Emilie Nef Naf.
Sofiane had however gone, at the time, in the emission Do not touch My TV, in which Jean-Pascal is now a columnist, to try to make him change his mind in the company of another veteran of season 4, Francesca Antoniotti. It was a waste of time, since he had repeated his accusations before them. Since then, the singer has refused to return to the show so as not to meet him again.
On the other hand, he and his comrades at the time had shown how intact their friendship was during the three souvenir programs offered by TF1 a few months ago for the 20th anniversary of the star Academy. If Francesca was absent, Mathieu Johann, Lucie Bernardoni or even Karima Charni had come to pay tribute to Gregory, who had moved the viewers to tears.