Sébastien Benoit succeeds Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge at the helm of Masked singers.
The host will host the fourth season of the show, which will be broadcast next fall on TVA. The network announced the news on Monday.
Through a press release, Sébastien Benoit speaks of an “honor”. “It will be a real privilege to do my job surrounded by talented people, both on stage and behind the scenes. »
Produced by Déferlantes (The voice, Star Academy) in collaboration with Quebecor Content, Masked singers is the number 1 show on the 2023-2024 calendar in Quebec, with average audience ratings of 1,901,400 viewers, according to confirmed data from Numéris. Director, Variety, Entertainment and Large Formats at Quebecor Content, Katleen Vachon salutes the “professionalism” of Sébastien Benoit, whom she describes as “the perfect person to orchestrate such a large-scale production”.
Will Sébastien Benoit continue to host The goose that lays golden eggs next fall? By email, the broadcaster responded that it “did not have any announcements to make” for the moment regarding the show. Quebecor Content is currently “in talks” with several companies to produce the show.
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge lost his position as host of Masked singers last March, due to a controversy with racist connotations. The actor had published a fleeting video on Instagram in which he held a birch tree in his arms, on which the N-word in English was engraved. The actor also made an allusion to the expression “work like an N”.