She was famous long before joining the jury of Dance with the stars. In effect, Marie-Agnes Gillot is known as a star at the Paris Opera ballet and even participated in the Enfoirés concert in 2021. Now, the 47-year-old dancer judges the candidates of DALS with his comrades Chris Marques, François Alu and Bilal Hassani. With our colleagues from the magazine Paris Matchcurrently on newsstands, the pretty brunette is engaged in this new challenge and also evokes as rarely her son Paul, adorable little boy with big blue eyes and naughty face.
“It’s no secret that the production of the show has been after me for a long time. But as long as I was a dancer at the Paris Opera, I had my head too high and not enough perspective to judge others. While it is necessary to know how to take distance to succeed in this exerciseshe says. And then, in truth, I especially wanted to please my mother, who died last year. She liked this program and regretted that I did not participate in it. During bonuses, I will obviously think of her.“
The very first season of Dance with the stars, it is moreover at her mother’s house that she watched it since she did not have a television at the time. “I have one now because my son Paul asked for one“, confides Marie-Agnès Gillot, who had already specified that the young man aged 8 is “Michou’s fan“, finalist of the last season. He must have had stars in his eyes when he discovered the youtubeur treading the parquet floor of DALS. However, he does not intend to do the same job. “He says he wants to be a footballer-dancer. funny joblaughs the happy mother. He has just started lessons at Houlgate, in Chantal Ruault’s class, where I started. So the loop is closed. I didn’t necessarily want him to dance, but it’s innate to him. Maybe it’s genetic?“