Three new guests received nice surprises on Friday night on the show The Secret Box broadcast on France 3. On December 17, 2021, Faustine Bollaert received Hélène Ségara, Bénabar and Chantal Goya, for a musical evening full of twists and turns. The interpreter of Pandi panda moreover offered a beautiful moment of emotion with her husband of always, Jean-Jacques Debout.
Chantal Goya first told of her meeting with the man of her life, truly worthy of a novel: she was then a 17-year-old high school student, invited to a wedding with a friend. “I see a great evening, everyone was very dressed, in a beautiful mansion. And there was a boy who was dressed in a navy blue sweater, who was not in wedding clothes at all, who went to the piano and there I was like, ‘But this boy is amazing, he does not look like the others’, she remembered. He started playing, and then all of a sudden he stopped, he walked over to me, he sat down next to me and there he said to me: ‘I have the impression of always knowing you, we will get married, we will have two children, you will be famous at 30 and you will sing at the opera.’ I said to myself: ‘So there, as a flirty, that’s not bad!‘”
The young Jean-Jacques Debout ended up driving Chantal de Guerre (her maiden name) home to her parents, in their Parisian apartment. But the teenager completely forgot to give him her phone number. Fate then reunited them a year later, on his return from England. “I came across Jean-Jacques who told me: ‘I wrote a very, very beautiful song because I thought of you’.“The title in question was then Our fingers crossed : title that Jean-Jacques Debout has finally interpreted on the piano, on the set of the show, once the “secret box” has been revealed.