Monday to Friday, France 2 broadcasts “It starts today” in the early afternoon. A show which was born in 2017 and presented by Faustine Bollaert. Like no one else, the companion of the writer Maxime Chattam manages to collect poignant testimonies from its guests ; mostly anonymous. This week, the 45-year-old host is dedicating her show to the Christmas holidays. Thus, this December 19, its guests will come to discuss a Christmas that marked their lives. Among them: tenor Vincent Niclo who will nostalgically share a complicated passage from his personal life.
Indeed, the almost 50-year-old artist (he will celebrate on January 6, editor’s note), spoke about her first Olympia in 2014. A legendary room and a very important date in the life of an artist. So, he tells the pretty brunette: “I have my first Olympia coming up. In an artist’s life, an Olympia is like wow!“. “We want everyone, the whole family, all the friends, everyone” confirmed the presenter of the program. The former candidate of “Dancing with the Stars” adds: “So what did I do? I never gave my family an ultimatum. Ever. There, they understood that I wasn’t kidding“.
It must be said that since the age of 13, when his parents divorced, his core exploded and the whole family was at odds. But for this day so important to him, the singer wanted to bring his family together. “I called them one by one et I told them, ‘This is what’s happening to me, this is my Olympia. I can’t even imagine the three of you not sitting across from me (…) If you can’t put your quarrels aside, it’s over, I won’t talk to you anymore‘ and I would have done it“, added Vincent Niclo, visibly very determined.
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Facing Abbie and Peter’s mother, the artist with a dark look continues: “I couldn’t understand that at that moment, that they didn’t have this generosity, this gesture, even if it was hard for some“. Faustine then asked the question that everyone is asking: “So what? Did they come? All come?“. The answer is yes. Vincent Niclo confirms: “They came. Yes, I saw the three face to face. It put even more pressure on me“However, he made sure not to put his brother next to his father.
The production then revealed a photo of this particular evening where the singer poses alongside his mom and dad. With tears in his eyes, the one who was on the Miss France jury in 2013 explains his emotion and why this moment has a special flavor, “because my dad left last November“. However, this evening, he will not soon forget it because once in the boxes, it was thanks to a few drops of champagne that the atmosphere relaxed between family members.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Faustine Bollaert’s guest declared “It’s now or never. How about we have a little dinner. They all said yes and in the end I said to myself, ‘Since we are able to have dinner together, we are able to do Christmas together again. It felt like an accomplishment for me, a double victory“ And so, that year, we were all able to celebrate Christmas togetheras before. A story worthy of an end-of-year tale.
