After being unmasked by the members of the jury of Mask Singerthis Friday, April 14, Laura Flessel told Camille Combal an anecdote about her time in government as Minister of Sports for Édouard Philippe.
This Friday, April 14, the surprise was there for viewers and members of the show’s jury. Mask Singer. After learning about the many clues entrusted to them, Élodie Frégé, Michèle Bernier, Jeff Panacloc and Kev Adams succeeded in discovering what celebrity was hiding under the very elaborate costume of the famous duck. After suspecting Valérie Trierweiler – François Hollande’s ex-girlfriend – budding profilers bet on Olympic fencing champion and former sports minister Laura Flessel. And their predictions were confirmed when she dropped her duck mask!
“One day, I received a call from Matignon”
But before definitively leaving the adventure of Mask Singer on TF1, the former high-level sportswoman agreed to share a moment conducive to confidences with the presenter of the program. And it is in the format Mask Singer: the investigation continues what Laura Flessel evoked this famous day when the former Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, contacted her to offer her a position in the government. “What you need to know is that throughout my career, I have already taken a position in the associative and humanitarian fabric. (…) So, I would say that the political environment was not unknown to me“, she first recalled. Before coming to this famous phone call: “One day, I received a call from Matignon. I was called by the Prime Minister and at first I thought it was a journalist’s joke. (…) In the end, it was him and he told me : ‘Listen, I’ll give you my number, you call Matignon and we’ll talk again.’ (…) And when I called back, I realized that it was Matignon who had called me.“And we know the rest of the story!
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Laura Flessel: a regular on TV sets
Even if the participation of the former sports minister in the program Mask Singer was able to surprise a good part of the crowd, Laura Flessel was not on her first television show. In the 1990s, the athlete had already participated in a program alongside Djamel Bouras, The treasure mapand in 2012, she wowed viewers with her dancing skills Dance with the stars. What will be the next surprise reserved by Laura Flessel? Mystery…
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias.
