Dance with the stars is back on TF1 on September 9, 2022. Last year, singer Bilal Hassani, who became a juror in DALS, had danced with a man, Jordan Mouillerac. For this new season, Clémence Castel (several times winner of Koh Lanta) will be in a relationship with a woman. A few days after the announcement, the mother of Louis (11 years old) and Marin (7 years old) – the father is Mathieu Johann seen in the star Academy – confided in this great opportunity.
“The production left me the free choice to dance with a man or a woman. I had to ask myself the right questions and I had a tendency to want to dance with a woman“, she first confided to our colleagues from Tele-entertainment. Clémence Castel who made her coming out in 2021 by presenting his companion, of course, consulted his relatives before making this decision. For his children, it is “a non-subject“And they reacted completely normally to this announcement. And for his darling Marie? No worries! Besides, it’s just if it wouldn’t suit him. “She even said to me: ‘Presumably you will dance with a straight woman, so there will be less risk than if it is a straight man with a straight woman.‘”, explains the future dancer.
In general, the fact that Clémence Castel forms a duo with a woman is perceived by those around her as “the logical sequence of things“. And let those who are bothered know it: the critics will not reach it!
A beautiful cast and a new jury
During this new season, Clémence Castel will face Anggun, Amandine Petit (Miss France 2021), Eva (formerly Eva Queen, sister of Jazz), Carla Lazzari (French representative at Eurovision Junior 2019) and Léa Elui (11.4 million followers on Instagram) on the women’s side. Among the men, she will be the competitor of Billy Crawford, David Douillet, Florent Peyre, Theo Fernandez (Les Tuches), Thomas da Costa (Here it all starts) and Stéphane Lega (star on TikTok). The outstanding sportswoman will have the particularity of dancing with a woman, a first in the famous dance show.
On the jury side, we will find the star dancer Marie-Agnès Gillot, Bilal Hassani, Chris Marques and François Alu.