The Star Academy 2024 hasn’t started yet but the show is already on everyone’s lips. And while waiting for the launch, on October 12, who better to talk about it than Nikos Aliagas, who has been at the helm of the program since 2001. Guest in Bonjour !this Thursday, October 10, 2024, he notably mentioned the first season which was a “fiasco”.
TF1 viewers are not the only ones looking forward to discovering season 12 of the Star Academy. The 55-year-old presenter is also very impatient as he confided to Bruce Toussaint: “I am, because it’s never the same story. Even after so many years.“And he’s not worried that the show won’t be as successful as last season:”We have all the ingredients, we know how it works. Now it takes a little luck, it takes a lot of work and we have to adapt, week after week, to the times, to what people also want and to our raw material which is music. .“
Nikos Aliagas comments on his Star Academy debut
Nikos Aliagas then remembered his evening of October 20, 2001. That day, he took his first steps on the set of the Star Academy. Et “it was a fiasco” he assured. After discovering, somewhat embarrassed, images from the time, in which he answered Claire Chazal’s questions, he declared: “When I arrived at TF1, I was a journalist the day before. They told me: ‘You have to say that it’s exceptional, you have to go there.’ (…) I was also impressed. We must not forget that for me, personalities like Claire Chazal, Arthur and others were myths. I wanted to try to show that I knew how to do it. You can see that I have something, but I had to cultivate it, learn it, keep only the essentials.“
In the end, the Star Academy changed his life and opened many doors for him within the group. In particular, he was entrusted with the reins of It makes me want on LCI in 2004, Celebrity Dancing in 2005, 50 Minutes Inside from 2007, the NRJ Music Awards from 2009 or even The Voice since 2012. Today, he is the one who must impress those who are starting out in the profession.
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