She’s part of the family star Academy, but she had chosen to leave her suddenly. In 2001, viewers of the first season of the star Academy met Jenifer Bartoli, Mario Barravecchia, Jean-Pascal Lacoste, Carine Haddadou but also Olivia Ruiz. The young woman, then aged 21, was eliminated near the final, but then launched a successful solo career. In 22 years of career, Olivia Ruiz has 1000 concerts, 2.5 million albums soldand achieved great successes like She panics, The chocolate woman And I’m dragging my feet. After eight years spent away from music, Olivia Ruiz made her return to the stores a few days ago, with a sixth studio album called Replyand which contains new unreleased titles, including Salt.
To promote this new album, Olivia Ruiz did the impossible: return to her native lands, those which launched and propelled her to the forefront, and to which she had always refused to return until now. With a lot of emotion, Olivia Ruiz, who is also an accomplished writer with 1.5 million novels sold, made her comeback on the set of the star Academy this Saturday January 20, 2024, to perform his greatest hits with the four semi-finalists. Upon her arrival, the forty-year-old was welcomed with Nikos Aliagas with a certain emotion that she had great difficulty hiding.
She preferred not to go to the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys
“What a story, but what a joy to be there. (I hadn’t come back) since the show revealed me…” confided, moved and trembling, the singer, who also spoke about the experience she had at the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys: “We created a family, and we find the real one when we leave”. While Nikos Aliagas thought that Olivia Ruiz had gone to see the semi-finalists at the castle, the singer denied it, even explaining that she would not have been able to do so, because she was overwhelmed by the emotion of seeing the place where everything happened again. started, and which she never saw again: “I didn’t go to Dammarie, but on the other hand, I came to see them rehearse, live. The emotional charge is incredible. I don’t know if in Dammarie I wouldn’t have been an old pile of tears for a few hours. I don’t know, but it’s an idea…”
A reality TV show for which she had not signed
In recent years, Olivia Ruiz had not been kind to the star Academy, of which she kept a bitter and contrasting memory. The young woman she was at the time did not know what show she was entering, and felt trapped by the production codes that had been imposed on her, and with which she did not really agree. Guest of Europe 1 less than a month ago, Olivia Ruiz returned to this episode in her life which had somewhat disconcerted her: “We thought we knew where we were going, but everything changed along the way. That is to say that at the start, it was presented to us as being a school. TF1 denies doing tele- reality by saying: We don’t do trash TV, it’s not the Loft. There, we are in a learning center. After a few weeks, the show didn’t work. So the learning center equips itself with cameras in the bathrooms and bedrooms to transform things. After three weeks, we were told: The show is going to stop, it’s not working. We can clearly see that there is work being done in the house and then all of a sudden, things take off thanks to that. Which still says a lot… When you leave, you can imagine that we don’t want to go look at everything that has just happened, but that’s what we were told, yes. regretted the singer.