Significant figure of Secret StoryAyem Nour had however declined a first offer to participate in the fifth season of reality TV. A refusal expressed for a very specific reason.
This fall, Ayem Nour appears for the first time in bookstores. The 36-year-old mother offers All those that I am published by Leduc. A 190-page autobiography in which the host looks back on her journey, from childhood to TV sets. His life also takes on a certain trajectory live on TF1, in front of millions of French people, on Friday July 8. It then integrates Secret Story at only 22 years old and in a few weeks becomes the darling of viewers. But why had she accepted this reality TV show?
Ayem Nour: why she refused to participate in Secret Story at the start
At the time a seasonal employee in restaurants on the Côte d’Azur, Ayem is in love. “My relationship was failing. I wanted to cause an electric shock”she admits today. However, the young woman has long “claimed to have accepted Secret Story for the money when in reality it was just a love story”. She was thus spotted in Saint-Tropez by a “headhunter of the show” here he is offers to go through the casting but, in love, the main person refuses. “At that moment, only one person occupies my thoughts. I don’t care much about the rest and even more so about television. I want him to show up with a bouquet of red roses, to pull out all the stops.”explains in her novel the one who desperately hopes to breathe new life into her romance. “And it works. The night will witness our love for the last time. When he fell asleep, I went to search his phone and discovered that he was indeed like the others: a liar and unfaithful.she laments. A week later, the Lyonnaise sees the headhunter again by chance and accepts her offer, this time, for revenge.
-Ayem Nour: this statement about his participation in Secret Story which she denies years later
Ayem Nour makes it clear that his participation in the season won by Marie Garet was really to make his first companion jealous: “I will write a new chapter of my life without him. And what’s more, if it’ll piss him off to see me every day on TV: hell!”. The thirty-year-old finally reaffirms: “Money did not motivate my participation in this show, it is love that always guides me.”
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