Thursday was a shattering day in our wonderful world of showbiz, as the tectonic plates of Quebec reality television hit hard.
While the 16 competitors of Big brother celebrities 3 deposited (in the greatest secrecy) their suitcases at the house-studio of Anjou, TVA simultaneously dropped a semi-nuclear bomb on social networks. It is the singer and ex-academician Olivier Dion who will succeed Naadei Lyonnais in the animation of the ceremonies of the flame of the island of love.
Yes, yes, the same Olivier Dion, 31, who had signed a contract to join the third season of Big Brother Celebrities on Noovo, according to my sources. His participation had been cast in stone, until TVA offered him to walk in slow motion in front of the magnificent villa in Las Terrenas.
It pays very well to play Big Brother Celebrities : the stars pocket $6,500 a week there. On the other hand, Noovo’s reality show does not offer any guarantee on the duration of the stay. Remember – or not – the lightning passages of Geneviève Borne and Stéphane Fallu.
To the island of lovewhich will take off again in April at TVA, three months of guaranteed work await helmsman Olivier Dion, who was at the helm of Mix 4 on Vrak in 2014 and who also piloted Dance to win for V in 2018.
At the beginning of December, Olivier Dion therefore withdrew from Big Brother Celebrities and opted for the sun of the Dominican Republic, I am told.
The graduate of Star Academy 2012 could he have chained the two engagements? No. First, rivals Bell Media and TVA never offer joint custody to their headliners. And Olivier Dion is due to travel to the Dominican Republic in mid-March to begin production of the island of love. The dates therefore did not match if ever Olivier Dion survived more than two months of ceremonies of endangerment and exhausting challenges of the boss.
Olivier Dion, who forms a couple with influencer Emy-Jade Greaves, did not respond to my interview request. His agent sent my questions to TVA, which has been sulking since 2017. Same silence on the side of Naadei Lyonnais. This is the picture of the situation.
On the side of Big brother celebrities 3whose filming started on Thursday, my spies report to me the presence of other candidates who have not been confirmed by the production.
So, the ex-diver Alexandre Despatie, even if he vigorously denied the information, did indeed enter the house of Big Brother Celebrities Thursday. Will the Olympic medalist form an alliance with his good friend Benoît Gagnon, host at Rouge FM?
In addition to Benoît Gagnon, only the presence of comedian Korine Côté and soprano Natalie Choquette – the mother of Éléonore Lagacé – have been formalized.
According to my moles, comedian Martin Larocque (Donald Welsh in District 31), actress Naïla Louidort (All life, The flaw), drag queen Mona de Grenoble, comedian Jérémy Demay, designer Marie-Christine Lavoie, actress Marianne Verville (Cerebrum, Aurélie Laflamme’s diary) and comedian Anas Hassouna are part of the 2023 vintage.
A final spy tour allowed me to add to this list New Brunswick comedian and rapper Coco Belliveau, actress Jemmy Echaquan Dubé, who we saw in Runaway and All the lifecomedian and tiktoker Liliane Blanco-Binette (seen in The next stand-up) as well as influencer and youtubeur Zoé Duval, whom the Z know more than the boomers, let’s say.
Once again this season, comedians dominate the distribution of Big Brother Celebrities with Jérémy Demay, Mona de Grenoble, Anas Hassouna, Korine Côté, Liliane Blanco-Binette and Coco Belliveau. The actors follow closely with Martin Larocque, Naïla Louidort, Marianne Verville and Jemmy Echaquan Dubé.
Back to the island of love, the production announced that narrator Mehdi Bousaidan, like host Naadei, would not return to his post in the spring. According to Mehdi Bousaidan’s manager, Annie Parizeau, the decision to break the professional association was taken by mutual agreement. “Mehdi doesn’t necessarily want to be associated with a long-term reality show. He had a lot of fun for two years and he is now dedicated to preparing for his second one man show, ”she explains.
In all editions of the island of lovean international format derived from Love Island British, it is the first time that a man has taken control of this game of seduction, of shiny faces and open or closed doors. TVA has also confirmed that the commentator role of the island of love would go to a woman. Life has switched, as William would say. Because yes, life does things, would surely add Amanda.