On September 9, the former star of the Paris Opera ballet Marie-Agnès Gillot joined the jury of the show Dance with the stars (TF1) for the first time. “The show had been asking me to become a juror for seven years, but I was too engrossed in dancing.” she told the magazine SHE, before estimating that today, “it is the right time“because it corresponds to a desire to”to transmit“. A feeling that galvanizes her,”as much as dancing on stage“. She also sees this choice to integrate this program as “an evidence and a gift“because she has”the eye to instantly spot what is wrong with a posture“.
This interview was also an opportunity for her to talk about her autobiographical book out of the box which will appear on September 29 and in which she returns to her “rivalry” with Aurélie Dupont, her former partner at the Paris Opera. A place she describes as “the land of jealousy and wounds“. And for good reason, the one she considered to be “his sister in body and heart for so many years“, with whom she shared the same dressing room and was”inseparable, already at dance school“, the “put aside when she arrived at the direction of the dance of the Opera“.
The hatchet soon buried?
But despite their distance, the hope of picking up the pieces is still there. “I still love her and I always will, and I hope one day when we’re grandmas we can get together and put it all on the table“, declared the choreographer of 47 years. It remains to be seen now whether this desire to make peace is shared by her former confidante or not. Anyway, the new juror of DALS took the first step and can now focus on her new experience on television, which she is certainly doing for herself but also for her mother, “passed away last year.”
“She loved that show and was sorry that I wasn’t on it. During the bonuses, I’ll obviously be thinking of her“, she explained recently, this time in the columns of Paris Match. She will not fail to think of her again tonight…