Another roller coaster evening on the floors of “Dancing with the Stars”, the TF1 telecrochet, during a two-part final. Despite excellent marks – including a 10 from Chris Marques! – which counted as much as the public’s votes by SMS, Inès Reg and Christophe Licata were eliminated in the middle of the show.
As moved as she was disappointed, the young woman hugged her partner for a long time and grabbed the microphone handed out by the presenter Camille Combal to say a few words to her dancer, then to the audience: “I love you madly, I’m sorry, you you’re an atomic bomb. (…) Thank you, thank you it was a crazy adventure. I suffered a lot. I am not a TF1 product. I didn’t cheat and I lost my head.” After finding refuge for a few minutes in the dressing rooms, the 31-year-old comedian, very disappointed, finally returned to the set, very fair play.
“I had tears looking at you”
The emotion quickly disappeared for the resumption of the competition between the last two finalists Natasha St-Pier and Anthony Colette, the public’s favorites, and Nico Capone and Inès Vandamme. This time, only viewers’ SMS votes count. All in blue, the Quebec singer offers a freestyle on “All by myself” by her compatriot Céline Dion. The opinions of the jurors are only advisory. Too bad because Mel Charlot speaks in a quavering voice: “I had tears looking at you. It’s never too late to fall in love with dance.
Natasha St-Pier pays tribute to a “show that transformed her” and “to this boy who gave his heart, his body and his soul” for her: Anthony Colette. Suffering badly from his back, the latter goes on to lead her in an Argentine tango on the theme of the film “The Addams Family”, which they had already proposed in the middle of the season. “It’s my best season,” says the one who suffered from the quarrel and confusion, being Inès Reg and her partner.
Now it’s time for Nico Capone to try his luck with first a freestyle to “Can’t Stop the Feeling” by Justin Timberlake in a white Roman breastplate. Then he takes up the paso doble on the wild “La Goffa Lolita” from La Petite Culotte, already danced with Chris Marqués three weeks ago. “This adventure changed me. I lost weight. (…) I won everything,” said the man who was the victim of an online harassment campaign criticizing his overweight at the start of the show. If people could have shot me before dancing they would have. And finally I am in the final,” added the Swiss influencer, with a vengeance. But does he have the level in the eyes of viewers?
The emotion of Anthony Colette
After a last page of advertising and dancing by the four jurors, it’s time for the very last face-to-face. The bailiff Maître Simonin brings the envelope to Camille Combal, “with very consistent results”. The host plays with the nerves of the finalists. He keeps the suspense going and makes himself the king of furniture. With 57% of the votes, Natasha St-Pier won. Anthony Colette is lifted by all professional dancers. This is the first victory for the man who, as a teenager, dreamed of participating in the show in front of his television.
The two winners are in tears, especially Anthony absolutely incapable of expressing himself for many minutes. “Thank you to the public who supported us. Anthony, these are months of stress and pain coming out and a little pain too,” reacts Natasha St-Pier, while Inès Reg, her great rival of the season, remains aside on the side by multiplying accolades to the other candidates.
A little more, in the traditional “after” which follows “Dancing with the Stars”, Natasha St-Pier detailed a little more all the emotions that she and her partner have experienced in recent weeks: “We laughed, we cried , we had pain, we still have pain, confided the singer. The audience at home experienced this with us. The public has really been part of my life. I felt like I had a big family.”