Today at 2:00 p.m. – by Thomas Fourcroy
Impossible to think of Loft Story without mentioning the famous swimming pool scene between Loana and Jean-Edouard! Nearly 23 years later, Angela Lorente, then editor-in-chief of the show, reveals the underlying story of this moment which is making a buzz again thanks to the Prime Video series, Worship.
First reality TV show in France, Loft Story made television history in 2001. Today, the series Worship broadcast on Prime Video goes behind the scenes of this adventure, with an episode devoted to the famous swimming pool affair and the management of the rapprochement between Loana and Jean-Edouard. More than twenty years later, Angela Lorente, who then held the position of editor-in-chief of the show, delivered to our colleagues from Tele-Leisure confidences on this emblematic scene of Loft Story.
Angela Lorente on the pool scene with Loana and Jean-Edouard: “I stop the stream, but it was on the 24/7 channel and on the Internet”
“It all starts with this party which was broadcast live on M6 and which lasted an hour”remembers Angela Lorente. “The lofters were dancing in front of the mirrors. Everything was going very well and we went back on air. The lofters continued to live their lives. A friend had come to see me and we wanted to go for a drink. Before leaving, I checked that everything I'm fine. I tell a cameraman. [en voyant Loana et Jean-Edouard dans la piscine] : 'Oh they're bathing.' He answers me: 'No, they smell!'“ She continues: “I watch and run like crazy to see the teams. I call Stéphane Courbit [Le président d’Endemol France, société productrice de l’émission, ndlr]I call Alexia [Laroche-Joubert]who tells me on the phone that we will have to change the water in the swimming pool!” she laughs. “I stop the stream but it was on the 24/7 channel and on the Internet.”
According to Angela Lorente, Loana and Jean-Edouard did absolutely nothing in the pool
Angela Lorente also says: “We reacted quite quickly, and then the CSA intervened by offering them two hours of peace and quiet in their room, in the morning and afternoon, but they never used it because they had gotten used to the cameras. ” She explains with hindsight: “I reacted in a natural way because they were young, beautiful, they smelled of hot sand, as they say, but basically, they had the right to fall in love, to kiss, but to On the other hand, we were still in trouble because we had a very strong responsibility.” With a smile, she finally insists on correcting what she describes as an urban legend: “Nothing happened between them in the pool! Just the beginnings. Afterwards, things happened in the bedroom, but ultimately, it was almost nothing in the pool, except that it was suggestive so we might have thought that…”
