During the prime of the Star Academy This Saturday, November 23, Charles and Marguerite performed a song in honor of Lucie Bernardoni. This surprise performance, in conjunction with Grégory Lemarchal and orchestrated by Kamel Ouali, shocked the young woman, who burst into tears live.
The emotion was there… During the seventh bonus of the Star Academybroadcast this Saturday, November 23 on TF1 and dedicated to veterans of tele-hook and in particular to the late Grégory Lemarchal (died on April 30, 2007, from cystic fibrosis), Lucie Bernardoni discovered that the production of the program had lied to her throughout a week. While the program coach thought that Marguerite and Charles were going to sing the song Roxanneby Sting, she was surprised to discover that this was not the case. Coached by Kamel Ouali, the two academicians then sang a song dear to his heart: The mills of my heartby Michel Legrand. The famous title that she performed more than twenty years ago in a duet with Grégory Lemarchal during the fourth season of the program.
Lucie Bernardoni deeply touched by this memorable memory with Grégory Lemarchal: she burst into tears live on the Star Academy
During their performance, Charles and Marguerite performed the same choreography as that done by Lucie Bernardoni and Grégory Lemarchal a few years earlier. This attention deeply touched the main interested party who then allowed herself to be overcome by emotion, letting tears flow down her face. At the end of their visit, Lucie Bernardoni quickly headed towards Kamel Ouali to thank him for having organized such a surprise. Questioned by Nikos Aliagas about her feelings, the program coach – then very moved – did not manage to share her thoughts. “Bravo !“, she simply reacted at the moment.
Kamel Ouali upset: “It's extremely moving for me“
If this surprise performance was intended for Lucie Bernardoni, it also brought back many memories for Kamel Ouali, who broke down several times during rehearsals. A detail that he did not forget to recall once the passage of Charles and Marguerite was over. “It's extremely moving for me. […] After a while, I held back, at one point, I broke down in front of them because it represents a lot of things. It represents this magic that had worked between Lucie and Greg, the whole story that we know“, he confided, with emotion.
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias.