While the return of star Academy
is a great success, TF1 has decided to revive another of its cult programs. Indeed, in October 2023, the group announced that the reality show Secret Story
was going to make his comeback on the small screen.
“After 6 years of absence, the emblematic show Secret Story, produced by Endemol France, will soon return to the TF1 group’s channels”, indicated the channel via a press release specifying immediately that casting for the next season was “open”.
Good news which has already made Benjamin Castaldi react to the extent that it was he who hosted the program for many seasons before being replaced by Christophe Beaugrand. “Unfortunately, I must announce that the presentation of the show will not be entrusted to me. Although this may be disappointing, I prefer to move on without bitterness. It’s life and the opportunities that present themselves to us sometimes evolve unexpectedly”, he revealed via his X account (formerly Twitter).
A speech which disappointed the viewers of the first channel who obviously hoped to find the host at the helm of the revival of the cult program… But let them rest assured, another emblematic character of Secret Storyshould make his return. It is of course the inimitable Voice, aka
Dominique Duforest … And surprise, on the occasion of the return of the showthe actor gave an interview to our colleagues at Konbini on Monday January 1, 2024. An interview during which the 72-year-old man remembered the approximately 170 candidates he had seen evolve in the famous House of Secrets. .
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This blackmail that he practiced with a candidate
“When you have to lead fifteen people from a distance who systematically get confused, it’s exhausting. As soon as we played a joint game, they got confused. They got confused over stupid things. It tired me…”he recalled.
“I did not have the same sympathy for all the candidates, I say it frankly. There are even some for whom I have a certain antipathy… There was a candidate who seemed to me to be called Julien, it was a candy buster who never wanted to do anything, who never wanted to participate in anything. And I discovered by listening to their conversation that he was crazy about football so I had found a means of putting pressure on him. I told him ‘if you don’t do something like this, I won’t give you the transfer window information’“, he subsequently revealed, obviously referring to Julien Guirado, the candidate for the seventh season broadcast in 2013.
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