Cindy Lopes never had her tongue in her pocket. Revealed in 2009 in Secret Storythe former candidate has always cultivated her outspokenness, even years after the end of her television adventures. Recently guest in
Jetthe YouTube show From Jordan de Luxe, she let herself go to a few spicy confidences.
Evoking Loana in turn, the failure of Square VIIIP And his memories of TV sets, Cindy delivered his impressions without filter. And one of his most striking stories concerns His meeting with Jean-Luc Delaruepunctuated by a lapses which remained in the memories, and which, according to her, said a lot about the state of the late animator.
Cindy Lopes Cash on reality TV and its drifts
Before going back to her memories, Cindy Lopes first reacted to the evocation of Loana. Questioned by Jordan de Luxe, she affirmed without detour: “It is a drug drift. Addiction, Jordan. We must stop confusing with ‘TV, that kills’, no: It’s drugs, who kills. TV, the media, it doesn’t kill anyone. Can there be anxiety and toxic atmospheres in a defense office, okay? So you have to stop saying ‘in the media it’s like that’. “
Revived by the host, who asked her if she had already had the feeling that a program was going “degenerate”, Cindy did not hesitate a second:
“Carré VIIIP.” This program, presented by Elsa Fayer in 2011, had been launched for Celebrate the ten years of reality TV on TF1. But the adventure turned short: thirteen days after its launch, the chain decided to stop it, for lack of audience. Cindy remembers very well the tense climate on the set: “When I saw
Fx lift the chair to throw it in the mouth of Giuseppeyes, I still had a little start. I said to myself ‘it’s going to go in c*uilles‘, Of course. “An electric atmosphere, marked by colorful personalities like Afida Turner, Benoît Dubois or said Giuseppe, but which will have precipitated the end of the show.
“Sex Story”
But Cindy also remembered another television moment. She recounts her meeting with Jean-Luc Delarue, a star host who disappeared in 2012, and an embarrassing memory that has remained engraved in her memory. “When I saw Delarue, peace to his soul, who, to tell me, called me cindy de sex storyand then, that he was like that (she imitates spasms, editor’s note), redoing the same sentence three times, that he was re-whether, instead of saying Secret Story, he said sex story … “
Rather than taking shade, Cindy had chosen humor to reply:
“Besides, I dedicated my book to him, At the time, saying ‘kiss, cindy of sex story’. Well, he hadn’t loved too much because it had embarrassed him a lot, this little slip, which was, my faith, funny. “ With hindsight, Cindy associates this moment with other painful memories of her TV career. By evoking François-Xavier, alias FX, tragically disappeared reality TV candidate, she concluded with gravity: “It was shocking, to see people sinking, what …”