On January 17, 2024, Yanis Marshall decided to break the silence. In fact, the former dance teacher of star Academy questioned Bruno Vandelliformer member of the jury of Popstarson his Instagram account. “I’ll take care of you soon. Get ready. I’m BIG now, I’m not 14 anymore. And I swear on my life that there will be no others.”he said before announcing that he was filing a complaint against the choreographer for “aggravated rape of a minor”. For his part, Bruno Vandelli, through his lawyer Me Joseph Cohen-Sabban, denied these accusations. He says to himself “collapsed” And “berserk”.
This Saturday, January 20, Yanis Marshall took the floor again to give his version of the facts. The dancer explains that the facts date back 20 years, when he was 14: “There was a hold on a minor. It lasted for years and it was in fact manipulation. I became in love with him, I was 14 and he was 42, my mother’s age. I considered him my father, he was God”.
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Lionel Tim gives details on the relationship between Yanis Marshall and Bruno Vandelli
A version partly confirmed by Lionel Tim this Monday January 22, 2024 on the set of TPMP. Winner of Popstars with Otis and M.Pokora, Lionel now officiates in the daily life of C8 as a room driver. If Bruno Vandelli officiated in the season before his own, the ex-singer knows the choreographer very well as well as Yanis Marshall. And for good reason, his ex-girlfriend was the roommate of Bruno Vandelli.
“The first time I met Yanis Marshall was between August and September 2005. I was in this apartment and I said to my girlfriend “there’s a young man in the living room, who is he?”. She said to me ‘this is Yanis, let me introduce him to you'”he confided to Cyril Hanouna before continuing: “He was young and a little crazy and I realize that… he was Bruno’s boyfriend. What happened was what happened, they were going to a restaurant, they had a real romantic relationship”.
However, Lionel Tim indicated that this meeting would have taken place in 2005 and not in 2007 as indicated by the lawyer of Bruno Vandelli
a few days ago on TPMP. In addition, the former member of Link Up ensures that romance enters Bruno Vandelli And Yanis Marshall would not have “not started in Paris”. “It had started before. Basically, the romance would have started in Cannes according to my girlfriend. Besides, she asked me to be discreet about the fact that Yanis was there because he had not really have the right to be here because Yanis’ mother was against this relationship. He was going back to the Miami days, and my girlfriend really told me ‘don’t say anything, you really have to be discreet about it ‘”he added, surprising the host of the daily as well as the columnists.
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