Where are the images that we end up with? For several days, the affair of the clash between Inès Reg and Natasha St-Pier has set the Internet ablaze. The two participants of Dance with the stars on TF1, gave their version of the argument – which took on crazy proportions – on Instagram this Monday.
If the two stars agree on the origin of the conflict, a dark story of too loud music and a “little bitch” pronounced by Natasha St-Pier, they do not describe the same intentions or the same consequences. The comedian denounces racism while the singer admits to having completely missed his joke (the famous “little bitch”). We take stock of all the gray areas.
Why did Inès Reg arrive with her cameraman and her journalist?
According to Inès Reg, at the end of the day she asked Natasha St-Pier to turn down the music so she could record her interview with the camera operator and the journalist who followed her on the adventure. “I have the impression that she is in a character, she starts looking at the windows, it’s a glass roof that doesn’t open, she’s at the top of the ceiling. She asks to lower it,” explains Natasha St-Pier. So far everyone is telling the same story. But Natasha St-Pier does not interpret the scene the same way as her neighbor. “I tell myself, I have to play the game and give behind-the-scenes moments to the cameras,” explains the Canadian. A question arises: why ask to lower the sound accompanied by a camera operator? Why record the sequence?
Was the insult “little slut” said as a joke?
In her version, Inès Reg says she received a first annoying remark from Anthony Colette, Natasha St-Pier’s dancer, before being gratuitously insulted by the singer who called her a “little slut”. Inès Reg confides, in tears, her amazement. She claims to have been firmly escorted towards the exit by Natasha St-Pier and to have left to isolate herself to cry. Here, Natasha St-Pier’s version differs a little.
Seeing Inès Reg and Anthony Collette engaging in spicy jousts in a game of “ping-pong”, the Canadian is convinced that it is a humorous sequence. “I take a character that’s the opposite of my personality, I step into that character and I say, ‘I may be sweet and nice but if you’re mean to my friends I can be mean too.’ I remember Inès’ altercation with Valérie Trierweiler who caused a stir in Beijing Express, I say to myself, I’m going to do a running gag and I’m going to use the words of Valérie Trierweiler. I add: “Now you little slut, you’re going out.” A bad joke, admits the singer. For her part, Inès Reg does not perceive the humor. “We don’t know each other,” insists the comedian who emerges upset from this exchange.
But why remove a handrail for so little?
Collapsed, Inès Reg does not understand why she is being blamed. “I am the Arab from 93 in this story,” she said, devastated by the “lies” and attacks she was subjected to after the article in Parisian. If Inès Reg was insulted, why did Natasha St-Pier and her dancer Anthony Colette drop a handrail?
The production laid off the singer for three days to put an end to the conflict. Natasha St-Pier explains that she felt in danger “after seeing the state in which [Inès] can put on” and because Inès Reg refused to meet her in the studio corridors.
“Knowing her in this state, knowing that production believes that it is better that I do not meet her and after seeing the state in which she is capable of putting herself, I am afraid. I decide to remove a handrail. Later, I learned that Anthony also made a handrail because he also felt threatened,” says Natasha St-Pier. The two women met on March 21 and Natasha St-Pier explained to her that she had been intimidated by her and her team. Inès Reg would have retorted, according to the singer: “Ah yes, I see, we are black and Arab, that’s what scares you, it’s called racism, Natasha”.
For his part, Anthony Colette writes in a story on Instagram. “I filed a handrail not by chance, but following the multiple insults/threats I received while I was trying to calm a situation between my partner, Natasha St-Pier, and Inès Reg.”
The name of Inès Reg at the heart of other rumors and controversies
Natasha St-Pier reminded us that Inès Reg was insulted by Valérie Trierweiler in Beijing Express : Shock duos, in 2022 on M6. During the fourth stage in Sri Lanka, the comedian and his sister Anaïs were waiting for the former journalist from Paris Match and her teammate, just injured by an elephant, to give them the red flag and disrupt their course. “The sluts were waiting for us,” said Valérie Trierweiler. “She is a woman who had a career, who was First Lady. It’s hard to hear words like that. I admit that it stings a little at the moment,” the comedian reacted on Instagram at the time of the broadcast.
The young woman was at the heart of another controversy in Dance with the stars. Friday March 15, Inès Reg faced Keiona in the duels but did not appear alongside the other candidate as is usually the case. “Inès did not want to share the poster with her,” swears a technician. On the day of the prime, they had to be next to each other to play the duel, but nothing more. She specified it to the teams,” writes the article from Parisian before citing an anonymous source. “She didn’t want to pose with Keiona for image reasons”
“We both meet face to face and we don’t have an interview together in the doc that plays before our dances where we both see each other together for the simple reason that our schedules don’t have never agreed during the week, she explains in her long Instagram story. Keiona is my girlfriend, we get along well, we laugh all the time. »
For her part, Keiona did not react to this rumor. His dancer, Maxime Dereymez, however, defended Natasha St-Pier’s dancer. “Anthony Colette is simply a delicacy, a respectful, funny and above all very positive person. What I have read or heard makes my hair stand on end!…. », he published in story on his Instagram account.
Why doesn’t TF1 broadcast the images?
Bad joke or serious insult from Natasha St-Pier? Muteness of a victim stunned by the violence of her competitor or a disproportionate reaction from Inès Reg? Only the broadcast of the sequence would make it possible to resolve and put an end to the wave of hatred on social networks of which the protagonists of this incident are victims. Will the channel reveal the truth of this altercation? Contacted by 20 minutesTF1 did not respond.