The noose tightens in Mask Singer and they are not much in the running anymore to hope to win the competition. In Tuesday night’s new episode, two surprise characters were unmasked, namely the Viking and the Plot, but also a candidate who had been giving investigators a hard time from the start, Knight. Behind his armor, Laurent Maistret was hiding. Jeff Panacloc had guessed his identity. It must be said that the clues concerning him suggested that he had been an adventurer of Koh Lanta and that he knew how to put on a show. And indeed, at each of his performances, Laurent Maistret revealed the extent of his dancing skills. Talents highlighted during his participation in the seventh season of Dance with the stars in 2016. At the time, he formed a pair with Denitsa Ikonomova. Together, they even emerged winners of this edition.
So close to each other and close-knit throughout their adventure, Laurent Maistret and Denitsa Ikonomova were then the subject of persistent rumors saying they are a couple. Unfortunately for their fans, their beautiful friendship will never go away. “Denitsa is my teacher. He’s my good friend. We laugh. We are accomplices. But there is nothing. I have no attraction for Denitsa, although she is very pretty. She’s a very, very good friend“, he had explained to Entertainment TV in 2016.
Despite this clarification, years later, in 2021, Laurent Maistret still had to justify himself on the subject when he was questioned on the “awesome couple“which he trains with the professional dancer.”Haha! Sorry to disappoint you but I’m not with Denitsa Ikonomova at all“, he had launched. And to add: “What we are currently seeing on the networks is totally wrong !“
It is very difficult to know more about the private life of Laurent Maistret, except that he is the father of a boy named Liam and that he has preserved for many years. The host only very rarely posts images of him on the Web. The identity of the mother is unknown. As for Denitsa, we know of a long relationship with Rayane Bensetti, his former partner in Dance with the stars. Their breakup was announced in 2021. Since then, rumor has it that she has found love again in the person of François Alu, her sworn comrade on TF1. Neither, however, confirmed or denied this information.