After a successful season with a record number of couples formed during the adventure in 2024, Love is in the meadow returned at the start of 2025 for a twentieth edition. Since January 13, the portraits of the fifteen farmers in the program have been revealed over the weeks. If some participants are already among the favorites of this new edition with their moving stories, viewers will have the opportunity to meet Célia, a young and sunny horse breeder, in the episode broadcast on Monday January 27 and already available on M6+. Facing Karine Le Marchand, the enthusiast shared her touching story, evoking the death of her best friend. Warning, the rest of this article contains spoilers.
“Sébastien has died”: Celia (Love is in the meadow 2025) returns with emotion the death of his best friend
Direction Occitanie for viewers of Love is in the meadowthis Monday, January 27, where a young breeder, named Célia, is waiting for her charming and daring prince. At the head of a horse breeding farm that she set up alone, the life of the bubbly participant has not always been rosy. During her studies in the equestrian world, Célia formed strong bonds with her new friends: “Sébastien, he was really my best friend, no ambiguity“, she testifies to Karine Le Marchand. Surprised by the use of the imperfect tense, the host questions: “Why do you say ‘it was’?” The 30-year-old young woman looks back on the difficult ordeal she went through: “Sébastien died a few years ago, he was hit by a car“she begins, with tears in her eyes, before continuing: “It was a turning point in my personal and professional life (…) When someone calls you one morning telling you that your best friend won’t call you and won’t call you again“. Since this terrible tragedy, Célia has made the decision to honor the memory of her friend every day: “There was an awareness that life could be short and that it was going to have to be beautiful because, from that moment on, we had to live for two (…) After the pain and anger, you look for ways to keep him alive again.”
“I have a star in the sky and I know it” : Celia (ADP 2025) evokes the role played by his friend Sébastien in his profession
Very moved when thinking of her late friend, Célia confides that she founded her breeding thanks to an idea suggested by the latter: “Raising horses before it was my idea, it was a bit his“she says, before specifying: “Lazy (another friend, Editor’s note) had a mare, I had a stallion, and Sébastien always told us: ‘Both horses are fantastic so, sure, they’re not the same breed, but you should do a cross.’ He was convinced that it would make an extraordinary sport horse, so we made this cross“. A birth which allowed him to launch his activity: “Despite the fact that he is gone, he is still there, I said to myself that it would be great if we could use his last name for the name of the breeder, because no one believed in it except him. To have arrived there, I feel very grateful“, continues the breeder. “I have a star in the sky and I know it“, she concludes.
