This Friday January 7, 2022, M6 is broadcasting a new issue of House for sale. Stéphane Plaza and his sidekick Emmanuelle Rivassoux find Aurélia, Jessica and Katia, three sisters who are selling their parents’ house, both of whom have died of cancer. An emotionally difficult shoot, as Aurélia tells Leisure TV. And seeing PAF’s most famous real estate agent joking around at this complicated moment didn’t help … The production even had to call him to order.
“The first two days were very complicated. Even if the director had warned me that it was going to be complicated, when you don’t see him, you don’t understand“, she remembers. With her relatives, Aurélia first had to empty the house of her deceased parents.”The day of the move was the hardest, we gave things to associations, to the family so we had to manage all that, in addition to the filming sequences. It was a trying day“, she admits, revealing to have”cracked” on air.
A difficult moment during which “Stéphane Plaza was playing the clown“. And the jokes of Karine Le Marchand’s great friend did not amuse the customers of the day very little.”It was hard because they were objects from our parents, confesses Aurélia. But he made us understand that he understood, that he had lost his mother. Off camera, he spoke to us, told us that it was going to be fine, that he was going to help us.“Stéphane Plaza indeed faced the death of his mother Christiane in June 2016.”The mourning is still there, the pain and the sorrow will always be there but in any case, we are stronger and in any case, I continue to do things for her“, he confided to the antenna of M6 a year later.
And then, it must be said that Stéphane Plaza does not play a role for television. “It is the same as on the screen. I thought his clumsiness was added for the show but no he is really clumsy. He almost broke a Gainsbourg figurine of my dad, I barely caught it and told him ‘you don’t break anything’“Remembers Aurélia. However, this often funny awkwardness weighed on the atmosphere. So much so that the production intervened.”As we were on edge, the director asked him to calm down a little and the shootings went very well“Says Aurélia. Phew …