Attached to the TV section, Hiba Semali devotes herself to the small screen. The Voice, Koh-Lanta, Top Chef, Secret Story, Star Academy and even Les Marseillais have no secrets for her.
The “Star Academy 2023” tour is going wonderfully. The young singers take pleasure in meeting the public, sharing their passion. But a shadow imposed itself on the picture: Héléna uttered a word deemed racist, and from there a controversy took place. Faced with the scale of the affair, the young woman explains herself.
Héléna explains herself after a controversy, in a vlog from the “Star Academy” tour. © YouTube
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After the final of the Star Academy 2023, during which Pierre Garnier was named the big winner against his comrade Julien Liebermann. Despite the end of the tele-hook, the adventure continued for a good part of the tenants of the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys. Indeed, Pierre, Julien, Héléna, Axel, Lénie, Djébril and Candice have the chance to go on tour in order to meet their audience. While TF1 had initially planned to film behind the scenes of this tour, ultimately this did not happen. It is then Candice who plays reporter for a day by sharing images of the tour on the Web. On one of these vlogs, Héléna Bailly launched a controversy despite herself.
Héléna (Star Academy 2023) makes her mea culpa after a slip-up
“Arab“, this is the term thrown around by the semi-finalist from Belgium. A word which designates a woman of North African origin and which is perceived as derogatory, even racist in certain cases. It didn’t take much for fans of Candice’s videos to get offended. The video was quickly deleted by its author. But many had already noted Héléna’s slippage. Then, shortly after, the vlog was put back online on YouTube, without the controversial sequence. After a time of silence, Héléna spoke to explain herself through the new report published on the platform on Sunday March 31, 2024.I hope you understood that it’s not intentional at all, I didn’t mean to hurt anyone. It was super awkward and I apologize completely.“, declares the interpreter of the title Loved for real. And the 22-year-old young woman promises: “This will truly never happen again.“
Star Academy 2023: Between Héléna and Candice, everything is going well!
In this same YouTube video, still alongside her comrade Candice, Héléna takes the opportunity to clarify: between the two women, everything is fine! “We love each other, there has never been any problem between us. Not everyone can love us, we can’t please everyone and we know it. But we would like to tell you that we love each other“, they assure. Finally, Héléna launches an appeal for kindness: “Please be a reflection of our love, of our friendship.“Enough to appease sometimes virulent Internet users…
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