Since last season, Michael Goldman is director of la Star Academy, and he takes his role very seriously. But could it be soon replaced by Lara Fabian? In any case, this is what some Internet users imagined after the passage of the singer at the castle from Dammarie-les-Lys this week. The artist was came to support and give advice to Julien, Héléna and Pierre, the three candidates who were still in the running before the second semi-final. Faced with his kindness towards the students, viewers would have seen him take Michael Goldman’s place next year. In an interview given to the Belgian media DHon January 26, Lara Fabian wanted to respond, and she doesn’t seem ready to take over. “It makes me laugh, she declared. No, I don’t know how to do that kind of thing. Distributing good and bad points, if that’s the posture, it’s not mine. My posture is to accompany.”
However, if she does not see herself as director, she would not be against come and help them every week“give a real lesson, with the song that puts them in danger, with the element that torments them”. It must be said that Lara Fabian seems to have understood well the pressure that students endure to the Star Academy. Because, according to her, “there is noNothing is crueler than growing up in front of cameras twenty-four hours a day”. “There is nothing more violent than having fear of making a mistake and not not knowing how it will be perceived on the other side, than being cut off from our families, of what our benchmarks are, our friends, from one day to the next. Even if it is for the benefit of an artistic career”, she added. Before continuing: “In my opinion, helping them was simply listening to them. It was being with them and seeing what they were telling me without actually telling me.” A visit that left its mark.
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Pierre in tears in the arms of Lara Fabian
During her visit to the castle, Lara Fabian seems to have succeeded in free Pierre from a weight and make him release the pressure. When she came to make him repeat the song You didn’t give me timeDavid Hallyday, the young artist could not hold back his tears. “It’s too weird”, he declared, before the singer doesn’t take him in her arms. Afterwards, he admitted to feeling better. “I’m quite modest, I’m not too emotional and everything. And I have the impression that she was able to read so much in me what I myself was ultimately unable to see. I think it’s a moment that I’ll never forget, that’s for sure. I’m just going to say thank you because I think it will help me”, he then confided in the confessional.
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