That’s it, D-1 before the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys reopens its doors to new budding talents. Tomorrow, Saturday October 15, the Star Academy will unveil its brand new promotion, more than twenty years after the great debut of Jenifer, Mario, Carine or Jean-Pascal. At the controls of this cult show of the 2000s, Nikos Aliagas is faithful to the post. Invited to the microphone of Sonia Devilllers this October 14 on France Inter, the star host of the first channel returned to his debut at TF1 and the success he owes to viewers. “I owe a lot to the French public. No one ever said to me, “Get off the Greek, what the hell are you doing here”. So with social networks today it’s much more tense. I have a lot of gratitude for France, for the viewers. Because I’m still passing through, and after 22 years I arrive with the same uncertainties.“, he recounted.
Sonia Devillers also mentioned the beginnings of the program in the early 2000s and certain sexist abuses towards the candidates, such as with Jenifer during her portrait broadcast in 2001. “There was still a portrait of Jenifer where it was said that she was doing 90 C“, clarified the presenter. “Yes we were talking mostly about his weight“, Nikos defended himself. “Anyway, it’s all sexist“, insisted the journalist. “Of course, but so was the time. There were homophobic insults, there was everything. It was a reality. It’s up to us to be better today, to make all the words released make us better“, then conceded the host of “The Voice”.
Above all, Nikos Aliagas wanted to prevent the differences that are inevitable between the first students who arrived twenty years ago and those who will enter the castle in the next few hours. “At the time, the cameras, we did not see them. Today, they are robotized, in front. For a simple reason, it is that it is no longer taboo. The kids know how it works, they know how to stage themselves.“, he explained.
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