The reunion of Star Academy will perhaps have a sequel. After attracting more than 20,000 people to the Bell Center and the Videotron Center on January 12 and 19, the show featuring the 14 participants from the first season of the popular show could be presented at a festival next summer.
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Joined by The newspaper in Tracadie-Sheila, Wilfred LeBouthillier mentioned the possibility of doing “one festival, maybe two.”
“After the two shows, everyone said to themselves that it would be good to do another event before meeting again in ten years,” adds the first winner of Star Academy.
“We have been approached and we are in the process of evaluating everyone’s availability because they are busy,” confirms Entourage executive producer Véronique Charest, specifying that the talks are at the embryonic stage.
“I had the motton…”
As much among artists as among fans of Star Academy and the production team, only one observation stands out: this reunion was a success and allowed the academicians to receive another big dose of love.
Wilfred received more than his dose. In Montreal and Quebec, he received long and warm ovations.
“It’s destabilizing. You don’t expect it and when it happens, it hits you,” confides the friendly singer, overwhelmed by the reaction of the spectators.
This emotional moment occurred towards the end of the show, while Wilfred performed the song that made him a TV favorite, The ballad of Jean Batailleur.
“I had the motton in my throat and then you become fragile. At this precise moment, I had one phrase left to sing and I was trying to catch my breath so that I would not be able to distort. Feeling all this love, there’s no better pay for an artist.”
Chills
At Entourage, expectations were high for this show directed by Joël Legendre and “they were exceeded,” says Véronique Charest.
The academics, she said, “were super disciplined. They wanted to give a good show after 20 years. They had to live up to public expectations and they fulfilled the mandate.”
They also gave the production team chills. “We pinched ourselves,” admits Mme Charest.
“We said to ourselves: “But what are we going through? So that’s the fun.” At the time, we said to ourselves: “It’s unattainable, it’s larger than life, it’s Wilfred, it’s Marie-Élaine.” To be able to experience this between them and feel the love that there is in this group, until now, for me, there is not much to match that.