Season 3 of Mask Singer ended Friday May 13, 2022 on TF1. Three candidates were still in the running with the hope of winning the coveted trophy, namely Denitsa Ikonomova in the costume of the Butterfly, Valérie Bègue was the Banana and Laurent Ournac was hiding behind the disguise of the Deer. It was the dancer Denitsa who was finally crowned big winner, just ahead of Valérie Bègue. The ex-Miss France had a great run to the final, literally amazed the jurors with her unsuspected talents as a singer.
The pretty brunette could have revealed her vocal prowess in the previous seasons because she had already been approached by the production but it was only this year that she really wanted to get started, in order to please her daughter. Jazz (9 years old). She also gave him a wink by choosing the Banana as a costume. “Originally, I wanted to be a broccoli, because that’s my daughter’s favorite thing in the world. It was not possible, and banana is his favorite fruit“, she revealed during an interview for Entertainment TV.
But before little Jazz, born of her ex-relationship with Camille Lacourt, realizes her mother’s presence on the air, she had to be tricky. Indeed, Valérie Bègue went out of her way to keep her participation secret. “I felt like a spy, a secret agent, because you have to hide all the time. We can never talk about it. I felt like I was leading a double life. Very few people around me knew about it. I was looking forward to the broadcast starting, to be able to share all this with my daughter and my loved ones“, she confides again.
And it is with great happiness that she realizes today that she has taken up her challenge hands down. “I am delighted to have succeeded in winning my bet, namely, to surprise my daughter. I have no regrets“, she assured, revealing in passing the reaction of her daughter at the time of the revelation: “The look of my daughter when she attended the ‘unmasking’. She was so happy and shocked! She had her doubts, but she very much hoped it was me. I made it for her.“Valérie Bègue therefore had the greatest victory!