In 2006, when he appeared at the auditions for “La nouvelle star”, few imagined him as the big winner a few weeks later on the stage of the Pavillon Baltard. With his atypical look and his “turtle” look as Marianne James will baptize him, Christophe Willem is out of place. But here it is, her soulful diva voice and her broad smile will earn her the affection of an entire audience. More than fifteen years later, the amateur singer has become a real star. His latest single PS Je t’aime is a hit on download platforms and the Francilien has also built an image of an assumed and assertive boy while remaining simple and accessible.
A personality that had even seduced a famous comedian. Asked by Malika Ménard, Christophe Willem confided: “During my first round, I arrive in my dressing room and I see a bouquet of roses, but gigantic! I was all excited, like, ‘Who sends me roses?’ And there, I see: Pierre Palmade!“. The latter also sent him an adorable little note, in which the comedian mentioned “respect for his work” but also what attracted him to the artist. “‘I find you very attractive’ or something like that“, he would have written to him.
And if Christophe Willem can today boast of being desired, this has not always been the case. “At school, I was stigmatized, like the ugly duckling or the fat queer of the court. My success had erased that, I felt carried by the gaze of the public. You mistakenly believe that this love of people will heal a self-esteem that has been shattered. It’s wrong. So at the slightest failure, you go even lower than before“, he lamented in the columns of Here.
Filled with success, the singer confides all the same to have somewhat resorted to the scalpel to correct certain defects. “Me, I had implants, had a bump on my nose rectified, straightened my teethbut no Botox or anything like that”, he explained to our colleagues. “For the physical, we started from so far that, thank God, it could only get better with time, did he declare. When you start very ugly, you really need a big lose for it to get worse“.
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