Friday, October 7, the show was more than ever in the spotlight in “Dancing with the stars”. Indeed, for this fifth bonus entitled “The battle of the judges”, Chris Marques, Bilal Hassani, Marie-Agnès Gillot and François Alu wet the shirt to each defend two couples with whom they danced. In this little game, Bilal Hassani’s team made up of Carla and Léa Elui won on the wire, thus allowing the two candidates to qualify for the next bonus. At the end of the show, it was the former Miss France Amandine Petit who was eliminated, to her great regret. She even had a little clash with Chris Marques during the after party.
But this award “The Battle of the Judges” was also a chance to admire the stratospheric level of dance of the jurors, two of whom, it should be remembered, are star dancers. Thus, François Alu and Marie-Agnès Gillot made a very strong impression by revealing their ability on the floor of TF1. The latter offered a breathtaking performance dancing alongside Fauve Hautot and Billy Crawford on “Ave Maria”.
A performance that is all the more exceptional as Marie-Agnès Gillot has had to deal with illness for several years. In an interview with the magazine full lifethe 47-year-old star dancer confided frankly on the evil that gnaws at her: “My (bone) disease is progressive, it will get worse and worse. I didn’t talk about it until very late, once I was a star: ‘Ah, by the way, I’m 100% disabled’. This invisible disability made me feel different. I was lucky to be driven by my vocation, which allowed me to survive, not to live, and this from the start since my childhood was very complicated”, she recounted with modesty.