The kickoff of the 35th edition of the Telethon was given this Friday, December 3, 2021. Every year since 1987, the event has been broadcast on France in order to collect donations to finance research projects on genetic neuromuscular diseases. As tradition dictates, several personalities follow one another on stage for a unique concert.
At the helm of the event this year: Nagui, Cyril Féraud, Sophie Devant, flagship hosts of the France Télévisions group, with Soprano, sponsor of this new edition by their side. If Mr. Pokora offered us an emotional sequence by finding a sick little boy met last year, Sophie Davant was also upset during the show.
The host was able to see an extract showing a seven-year-old girl named Jeanne, suffering from myopathy. The girl had returned to the show a few years later to give hope to all the children who, like her, are confronted with the disease. What provoke the tears of Sophie Devant who once again cracked live. Overwhelmed by the sight of these images of Jeanne, to which she has become very close, the host burst into tears: “It moves me because she made another choice of life, she entered orders. I had a message from his mother earlier who told me that we were still in communion and I believe that the word is well chosen ” she explained.
Too moved, the presenter of Closed Case abruptly left the set when she had to stay there. “Well, I’m going… I have a little thing to do over there ” Sophie Davant said on her way back to the dressing rooms, surely to touch up her flowing makeup, facing her colleague Cyril Féraud who was trying to hold her back.
Eleanor de la Fontaine