It has been several months since the Star Academy students joined the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys. And to bring the races without being surprised by the candidates, the production has implemented a very specific method.
It's tradition. Since the creation of the Star Academyeach promotion of the program, with exceptions, includes the emblematic Château des Vives-Eaux located in Dammarie-les-Lys. Since October 13, it has housed the 2024 class of the program who, in addition to living in the castle, take sports, dance, singing, theater and stage expression classes in the rooms annexed to the building. A space of more than 2,500 square meters, in which students must never come into contact with the production teams.
Star Academy: how does the production stock up on races at the castle?
To do this, the production had to put in place a well-defined method to fill the cupboards and the refrigerator of the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys without being seen by the students. In any case, this is what Karima Charni, ex-candidate and today co-host of the show, confided to our colleagues at Tele-Leisure : “The cupboards are stocked when the students are not at the castle, such as during bonus rehearsals.“A technique which aims to limit interactions between students and technical teams, and thus, to allow them to stay in their bubble. However, production has also planned for the event of an emergency!”A 'passport' system hidden at the bottom of one of the kitchen units has been put in place“, confided Joséphine Gad, the decorator of the castle, to Tele-Leisure.
Star Academy: who cleans the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys?
However, there is one element that production does not control at the castle: cleaning! Indeed, “these are the candidates“who clean the castle,” Karima Charni told our colleagues. “It's their house. They must take care of it“, she added. A fact far from surprising since the students of the new class of 2024 put in place a common rule of life on this subject on November 18. In fact, faced with the dishes that are was accumulating in the kitchen, Marguerite had decided to create a schedule, which she had stuck on the refrigerator. The candidates must therefore carry out all the household chores of the castle, with a single exception, their clothes and their bedding! used are collected by a person from production in order to wash them.
