Marie-Élaine Thibert and Wilfred LeBouthillier are the big winners of the first season of Masked singers.
The two former academicians – she was a finalist in 2003 and won him this edition of Star Academy – were in fact hiding under the costume of the Inseparable, two colorful birds.
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In Sunday night’s final at TVA, they took over the play Someone Like You Adele and walk away with the prestigious Golden Mask.
Only the investigator Stéphane Rousseau had guessed, from their first performance, the identity of the Inseparable.
Marie-Élaine Thibert and Wilfred LeBouthillier found themselves happily together. They were on their third big project together, after Star Academy 18 years ago and the Worldbest, in 2004, in Cannes, where they took second place in this international competition between finalists from different cohorts of Star Academy worldwide.
“It was the first time that Wilfred and I, since Star Academy and Worldbest, we worked together to get a result, ”said Marie-Élaine, in an interview with the QMI Agency.
“He told me, before I agreed to do the project, that we had to go to the end, as if Star Academy, she continued. He’s super competitive and besides, I got into the game too, taking it more and more seriously. ”
Like the other participants of the season of Masked singers, including Marie-Claude Barrette, Michel Bergeron, Lise Dion, Ludivine Reding, Sophie Thibault and Lise Watier, it was quite an experience for them not to tell anyone about the project and to appear at the recordings masked from head to toe to not to be recognized.
Marie-Élaine Thibert stressed that she was relieved to finally be released from her secret because her relatives were asking her more and more questions. Admirers also wrote to her asking if she was hiding under the costume of one of the two birds.
“We were the only duo among the masked singers, so I was really lucky to be with my big brother. All the other participants were holed up in their dressing room, alone, but we could laugh together, take pictures, talk, ”recounted Marie-Élaine, who is preparing for the launch, in January, of the first single from her new album. to be released in March.
PHOTO COURTESY BERTRAND EXERTIER
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The other two finalists of the show hosted by Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge were also amazing Sunday night in the final. We learned that the Black Turkey was personified by actor and director Jason Roy Léveillée and that the Wedding Owl was none other than Johanne Blouin.
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Among the investigators, it was Anouk Meunier who was able to recognize the most voices and artists hiding under the magnificent costumes, so that she won the prize of the Golden Ear.
“I had so much fun on this show, which looks like me. It was a big variety show, entertaining, unifying, I got so talked about, ”she said, greeting in passing her investigative accomplices Sam Breton, Véronic DiCaire, Marc Dupré and Stéphane Rousseau.
“I salute the production which has been really creative for each issue. She created elaborate worlds, high-flying acts and pushed the limits, ”added Anouk.
The Productions Déferlantes team invites the curious behind the scenes of Masked singers, which was the most popular TV show on Sunday night. According to figures confirmed by Numéris, 1,752,000 viewers were riveted in front of their screens last Sunday. On view on December 5 at 6:30 p.m. at TVA.