Imagine if candidates infected with COVID-19 had moved into the Maplewood mansion in Waterloo after the broadcast of the first gala of Star Academy Sunday night.
Posted at 7:15 a.m.
It would have been a health carnage. In less than 48 hours, with the contagiousness of the Omicron variant, the whole household would have been contaminated. The students, the teachers, the technical team… the production would have been paralyzed for several days, which would have stopped the whole machine.
TVA and the producer Déferlantes made the right decision by postponing the launch of the rocket for a week StarAc. The first gala will take place on Sunday, January 23 at 7 p.m., while the daily will start on January 24 at 7:30 p.m. A week of delay is a blessing in disguise.
For the next seven days, the future William Cloutier and Lunou Zucchini of 2022 will live completely isolated in a hotel room, without contact with the outside world. Saturday evening, 24 hours from the airing of the first variety gala, 4 of the 19 candidates of Star Academy, who are between 16 and 28 years old, had a positive result. Had to delay everything. No choice.
The sequel promises to be a real headache for the producers of this musical reality show, the cornerstone of TVA’s winter programming.
According to current CNESST rules for film sets, an infected person must self-isolate for five days after the first symptoms appear or the announcement of a positive test.
After these five days of confinement, the infected person can resume their usual activities, but wearing a medical mask “during any social interaction” and respecting the distance of two meters.
Ten days will not have passed between the isolation of the star academicians and the presentation of the gala on January 23. And it would be hard to see these young people singing for their place in Waterloo through a medical mask. They also couldn’t share the same dormitory or eat meals together. Even if it’s annoying, it wouldn’t be surprising if the star TVA program moved another week to ensure the safety of the team.
Reached on Sunday, producers Benoit Clermont and Jean-Philippe Dion, from Déferlantes, declined my interview requests.
The virus &@#* also short-circuited reality TV Big Brother Celebrities from Noovo on Sunday evening.
Before entering this game behind closed doors, comedian Eddy King underwent several tests, all of which were negative. Then, a week after the first alliance was formed in the home-studio, he tested positive. A curveball that no one saw coming.
Eddy King has been temporarily removed from the mansion, which was built in a warehouse in Anjou, in the east of the island of Montreal. But how did the 39-year-old comedian catch COVID-19 with no contact outside of his bubble? Big Brother ?
According to Noovo, it is difficult to determine how Omicron invited himself into the show, “while Eddy King had had several negative results and the participants are isolated without contact in their family bubble”.
Could it be that the virus was introduced into the air of the house by members of the technical team who work on the other side of the walls? Not impossible.
A second participant from Big Brother tested positive following the elimination night, according to Noovo, which did not reveal the identity of the contestant in question. Karl Walcott and Sébastien Plante slept in the same small room as Eddy King.
Speaking of Seb Plante, unsurprisingly, he said “goodbye to his real friends”. The singer slept on gas and when he decided to play, it was too late. The 7Up man lacked bubbly. He will now have plenty of time to put his life in order.
News from James Awad
Yes, the team Everybody talks about it requested an interview with James William Awad, the organizer of the Mexican trip to hell where several passengers – including the vape Sunwing – violated just about every safety rule imaginable.
“He had accepted, but he did not understand that we did not want to receive him in the studio. We would have done the interview by videoconference, because obviously, he and his gang did not respect the sanitary measures, ”explains the co-producer of Everybody talks about it, Guillaume Lespérance.
This is why James William Awad did not participate in the first episode of 2022, broadcast live on Sunday evening on Radio-Canada. Moreover, the discussions between Awad and Everybody talks about it were very brief. “We didn’t even go to the pre-interview stage, we never managed to talk to him on the phone,” continues Guillaume Lespérance.
Joined Sunday, James William Awad, 28, offered a different version of events. It is he who would have refused to go to the studio or to discuss with Guy A. Lepage by Zoom/Skype because producer Guillaume Lespérance insulted and ridiculed him on Twitter.
According to James William Awad, Guillaume Lespérance treated the people of his 111 Private Club as thick “and it’s disrespectful”, he says. James William Awad, who records music under his stage name Senior, returns to Montreal on Monday. He declined to say where he has been staying since the Sunwing charter controversy to Cancun.
SCREEN CAPTURE OF A VIDEO FROM JULIE SNYDER’S FACEBOOK PAGE
Julie Snyder and her wax statue at James William Awad
Thursday evening, Julie Snyder presented a very funny topo on her talk show where she went to deposit her wax statue from the Grévin museum next to one of those that James William Awad had erected on his land, in Bois- des-Filion.
This well-done six-minute segment has been viewed more than a million times on the host’s digital platforms.
James William Awad didn’t laugh as much as we did. “She entered my land illegally,” he says.
According to my information, Julie Snyder only stayed a few minutes in the crescent where Awad owns six houses. She didn’t damage anything and only brushed one of the statues bearing the image of “this great creator”.