Guest of Frédéric Lopez in And Sunday in the countryside this Sunday, March 24, Olivia Ruiz made new confidences about the ordeal that the Star Academy. If the show allowed her to make herself known, the singer “poetically engaged”, who embarked on the adventure at the insistence of her parents, felt very uncomfortable at the castle, to the point of bruxism (an involuntary contraction of the jaws during sleep). The delighted mother notably returned to the reason why she had asked viewers bluntly: “Don’t vote for me!”notably remembering her reaction when she learned which artists had written the album for the winner of the show: “I can’t sing that…”
An artistic proposal so far from her musical universe that the singer said to herself that, if she won, she was “damn!” As she explained, the young woman, readily critical of the show, then made numerous interventions in the confessional to invite viewers not to vote for her. And as Frédéric Lopez reminded her, with supporting footage, she had even repeated her call live… Enough to surprise Olivia Ruiz, who had forgotten that she had dared to show such frankness, and who did not think not that his relief at the announcement of the results was so noticeable: “You saw how sad I looked before, and how happy I looked afterwards!” she laughed at the sight of these images.
© Screenshot / France 2 This Sunday, March 24, Frédéric Lopez surprised Olivia Ruiz by finding images of his time at the Star Academy.
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