And 14, the account is good. M6 broadcast this Monday the last seven portraits of farmers to launch season 18 of Love is in the meadow. They and they are added to the seven personalities presented last week and will be at the heart of the opening of the letters then of the speed datings which will launch the coming season.
This new batch of portraits offered its dose of humor with a lunar sequence on the reproduction of snails. “Is it like a small dick?” “Questioned Karine Le Marchand before being taken up by her interlocutor. Or even the names of Charles’s dogs, to say the least inspired. But the emotion was also there, especially when the latter spoke of his childhood or when Fabrice, a Norman breeder, spoke of his disability.
So many anecdotes that promise a season rich in emotions. The opportunity for 20 minutes to come back to the profiles that could offer good television moments.
“I want to eat life to the fullest”
Young and old in search of love have once again responded to M6’s call for its traditional dating show. We first discovered Jean-Paul, 62, growing cereals in Île-de-France on more than 70 hectares. Very talkative, he repeatedly provoked the hilarity of Karine Le Marchand. “I have a lot of love to give and for now it’s fallow! After catching mice with his bare hands, befriending his own pig and being raised among cows, he now wants to “eat life to the fullest”.
Father hen with his son, whom he raised alone, Jean-Paul is ready to welcome his suitors into the family home he has occupied since the death of his mother. As it is never too early, he has already prepared the rooms they will invest.
In the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Love is in the meadow introduced us to Clément, 26 years old. This dairy farmer works with his father, uncle and grandfather. “I am attached to my home, I do not see myself going to work elsewhere than here”, he insisted. Triathlete in his spare time, he never really knew love. “It’s not easy to confide in someone, to charm… It’s not my thing. »
Dispelling the shame of Crohn’s disease
At the head of a farm of 200,000 animals, Perrine is a snail farmer. Karine Le Marchand had a hard time understanding how the sexuality of snails is articulated over a lunar sequence. We have learned that these crawling little animals, hermaphrodites, mate between males and then become females and each lay eggs. “What I like about the snail is that when you look at it, you can’t imagine everything there is to know about it”, rejoiced this self-entrepreneur based in Bourgogne Franche-Comt. . Suffice to say that we will learn throughout the season.
“If my future spouse doesn’t like snails, it’s not a problem at all because he will like mine. A carrier of Crohn’s disease which started when she was 20, Perrine put an end to her studies as a chemical engineer. “The treatment took a long time to find so I was very ill for three years, it was very long, very hard” She has not been in a relationship since her illness, mainly because she is ashamed to talk about it. By participating in Love is in the meadowshe hopes to manage to live with this, by evoking it directly in her portrait.
Post-conversion celibacy
Farmers in the program are often animal lovers. With 250 domestic animals from all continents saved like the refuge, Stéphane’s educational farm in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur is proof of this. This big guy of 49 years realized his childhood dream by creating this place after having been commercial for twenty-five years. Having become an “invasive and devouring passion”, his job cost him his previous relationship, including his 10-year-old daughter the fruit.
Single for three years, Stéphane hopes to find a remedy for his loneliness. For this, he promised not to look at the photos of his suitors when opening the mail.
With 45 goats around her, Anaïs’ farm is more modest. Based in New Aquitaine, this 35-year-old shepherd and cheese maker grew up and lived in the Paris region before dropping everything to scour the markets with her produce. This self-entrepreneur is “on top all the time”, according to her clients in the markets. She nevertheless admitted to being a little lonely at times. “It’s quite heavy…”
“Just like everyone else… But less quickly”
This 18th cuvée also has several destinies broken by life, like Patrice, 39, and Charles, 43. Residing in Normandy, the first is hemiplegic and has one leg slightly shorter than the other. “I limp a little when I walk. He also explained that he had no strength in his right hand. “I walk, I ride a bike, I do everything like everyone else… But slower,” said the dairy farmer. After a childhood “away” and a non-existent sentimental life, this viewer of Love is in the meadow since the first season has been tempted by the experience.
Charles’ life was marked by the death of his mother when he was 16 years old. He was then forced to leave school to join his father on the farm. “I only knew that until I was 26, I was not allowed to go out. […] I was unhappy. He is now at the head of the farm where cereals are grown on 90 hectares and where 120 suckler cows graze.
Father of two children aged 8 and 4, Charles is also a rugby player and hunter. “My thing is not to go shooting, it’s to go into the woods with my dogs. He never refuses a hunting trip with Zézette, Bistouquette or even Quéquette, his dogs. He called them that to make his hunting comrades laugh. If he has lost a tooth due to a gore from one of his cows, Charles already promises a visit to the dentist before the next stage of the show, a little taste of the previous season where the unforgettable Jean had given himself a new smile before the speed-datings.