He is one of the emblematic candidates of the star Academy. Peter Nesta was revealed to the general public during season 3, in 2003. And the artist, who is now 42 years old, notably made an impression by announcing after a performance that he was leaving the show. A moment on which he returned to Entertainment TV nineteen years later.
The viewers who were in front of their small screen that evening still remember it. Pierre Nesta was nominated. And once his title was interpreted, he did not want to wait for the results of the votes to find out if he was leaving the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys. “I thank everyone who voted for me and I give them an appointment on the tour. I don’t wait for my freedom to be given back to me, I take it. I will leave like a prince. I will not return to the castle“, he announced after grabbing the microphone from Nikos Aliagas. Then he left in full live, despite the arrests of the presenter.
A sequence that will go down in history and on which Entertainment TV wished to question him during an interview. “After 10 weeks spent in the castle, I had reached my limit. Filmed night and day, the lessons, the filming of the prime, I felt that I had to take a step back quickly and rest. The pace was intense and the pressure was hard to bear for a free electron like I was back then“, remembered the former student of the star Academy. He then explained why he wanted to wait for the bonus to make his exit: “Leaving live was mainly to mark the occasion, as they say. We don’t have the opportunity every day to experience a moment of uncontrollable live. I seized the opportunity! And then I’ve always liked ‘starts in style’. It’s a good way to forget that in the end, we are just one loser among the others.“
Following his remarkable release, Pierre Nesta made a lot of noise. If at the start, he liked being at the heart of zapping, he much less appreciated discovering stolen photos in magazines. “Sometimes it was great to chat with everyone on the street and sometimes it turned into a nightmare. You have to be very strong to survive fame. Honestly, I thought no one could recognize me… I quickly understood my mistake“, he concluded. Aspects of the notoriety that the students of the Star Academy 2022 will soon find out.