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Danse Avec Les Stars Season 8
The eighth season of the French version of ''Strictly Come Dancing'' began in October 2017 on TF1. It was hosted by Sandrine Quétier. Co-host Laurent Ournac did not return to the show after two seasons and was replaced by different celebrities from TF1 invited to host that week: Arthur, Jean-Luc Reichmann, Christophe Beaugrand, Karine Ferri, Christophe Dechavanne, Nikos Aliagas, Laurence Boccolini, Denis Brogniart, Jean-Pierre Foucault, Carole Rousseau. Marie-Claude Pietragalla did not return to the panel after five seasons and was replaced by Nico Archambault. The returning judges were Jean-Marc Généreux, Chris Marques and Fauve Hautot. Participants File:Agustin Galiana 2018.jpg, File:Lenni-Kim (cropped).jpg, Lenni-Kim File:Tatiana Silva.jpg, Tatiana Silva File:Élodie Gossuin (cropped).jpg, Élodie Gossuin File:Jean-Baptiste Shelmerdine Joy Esther 2017 (cropped).jpg, Joy Esther File:Camille Lacourt.jpg, Camille Lacourt File:Arielle Dombasle Cannes 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candice Pascal
Candice Pascal (born 2 December 1984) is a French dancer from Agen. She is also an actress and a model. Biography Pascal's father owned a dance school in Agen.. After gaining her baccalaureate from Lycée Saint-Caprais, she spent four years in New York followed by four years in Hong Kong, teaching dance and dancing. While in Hong Kong she signed a modelling contract. She has won professional Latin dance contests in France and Hong Kong. In 2010 to 2012, she undertook professional acting lessons at Acting International in Paris. She is best known for her role in the television show ''Danse avec les stars.'' Since 2011, she has partnered with André Manoukian, Philippe Candeloro, Christophe Dominici, Damien Sargue, Corneille, Olivier Dion, Florent Mothe, AgustÃn Galiana (with whom she won season 8), Vincent Moscato, Hugo Philip, Gérémy Crédeville et Clémence Castel. In 2019 she came fifth in the TF1 reality television programme '' Je suis une célébrité, sortez-m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico Archambault
Nicolas "Nico" Archambault (born 18 October 1984) is a Canadian dancer and choreographer, who in 2008 won the first season of ''So You Think You Can Dance Canada''. After the win, he became well known for his lead role in the 2011 Canadian film '' On the Beat (Sur le rythme)''. Beginnings Born in Montreal, Quebec, Nicolas Archambault was the first of four children. He started dancing as a young seven-year-old, with a dance teacher Louise Lapierre, where all his sisters also learned dancing. He was traumatized for being ridiculed as the only male student in the class. While in Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry Secondary School in Saint-Léonard, a suburb of Montreal, Quebec, he registered for dance classes and was taunted, intimidated and ostracized by the male students for being "gay". In addition to growing up too fast for his age, he also suffered from Osgood–Schlatter disease. His childhood suffering prompted him in his successful years to remain very active in fighting bullying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss France
Miss France is a national beauty pageant in France held annually in December. The competition was first held in 1920, and has been organized continuously since 1947. The trademark for the pageant is owned by the company Miss France SAS, and is a subsidiary of Endemol Shine France. The competition is currently aired on TF1. The Miss France pageant was first organized in 1920, under the name ''La plus belle femme de France'' (), and was held for one additional year before being abandoned until 1927. That year, the competition was rebranded into Miss France, and was held annually until it was disrupted in 1940, due to World War II. In 1947, following the end of the war, the competition was revived and has been held annually since. In 1954, Guy Lévy founded the Miss France Committee () to organize the competition. Geneviève de Fontenay took over the Miss France Committee in 1981, until departing in 2007. Following the departure of de Fontenay, Sylvie Tellier served as the natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élodie Gossuin
Élodie Gossuin-Lacherie (; born 15 December 1980) is a French beauty pageant titleholder, model, radio and television presenter, columnist and regional politician. She was elected Miss Picardy 2000, Miss France 2001 (she is the 72nd Miss France), and Miss Europe 2001. She was the French voting spokesperson in the Eurovision Song Contest from 2016 to 2018 and again in 2022. She also co-hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021 held in Paris. Early life and education Élodie Gossuin was born in Reims in the department of Marne to Lysiane Triquet and Yves Gossuin, she has a sistehttps://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-parents-and-sister-bertrand-lacherie-at-wedding-of-news-photo/111049097] and she was raised in Trosly-Breuil in the region of Picardy, a village about 10 kilometers east of the city of Compiègne in the department of Oise. In her teens, she won several local beauty contests. While training to be a nurse, she obtained her final high school exam in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Esther
Joy Esther (born Joy Cavé on 14 June 1984) is a French–Spanish actress and singer. Life and career Joy Esther was born in Lyon. As a child, she took classes of singing and theatre, in addition to football, athletics and judo. She then took classes at the Cours Florent for three years. She also took lessons of modern dance and learnt to play guitar as an autodidact. She started her career at the age of eight appearing in some advertisements like Kodak, working with photographers Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Jean-Paul Goude. From age 11 to 18, she played in a number of films and television films, taking at the same time classes of theater, singing, guitar and piano during her studies. She began her acting career in the theater play ''Poussez pas y aura d'la place'' by Jean-Yves Brignon. At age 19, she had one of the three main roles in the musical comedy '' Belles belles belles'' played at the Olympia in Paris for two months. In 2006, she played the role of Juliet in the musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is an individual or team Racing, racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in Swimming pool, pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in Butterfly stroke, butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, Freestyle swimming, freestyle, and individual medley. In addition to these individual events, four swimmers can take part in either a freestyle or medley Relay race, relay. A medley relay consists of four swimmers who will each swim a different stroke, ordered as backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. Swimming each stroke requires a set of specific techniques; in competition, there are distinct regulations concerning the acceptable form for each individual stroke. There are also regulations on what types of swimsuits, caps, jewelry and injury tape that are allowed at competitions. There are many health benefits to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backstroke
Backstroke or back crawl is one of the four Swimming (sport), swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back. This swimming style has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimmers not being able to see where they are going. It also has a different start from the other three competition swimming styles. The swimming style is similar to an ''upside down'' front crawl or freestyle. Both backstroke and front crawl are long-axis strokes. In individual medley backstroke is the second style swum; in the medley relay it is the first style swum. History Backstroke is an ancient style of swimming, popularized by Harry Hebner. It was the second stroke to be swum in competitions after the front crawl. The first Swimming at the Summer Olympics, Olympic backstroke competition was the Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke, 1900 Paris Olympics men's 200 meter. Technique In the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Lacourt
Camille Lacourt (; born 22 April 1985) is a retired French competitive swimming (sport), swimmer and backstroke specialist. He won the 50 metre backstroke at three consecutive FINA World Aquatics Championships, world championships (2013 World Aquatics Championships, 2013 Barcelona, 2015 World Aquatics Championships, 2015 Kazan, and 2017 World Aquatics Championships, 2017 Budapest). He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 Olympics in the Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke, 100 metre backstroke and finished fourth. In the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Rio Olympics, he finished fifth in the Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke, same event. Swimming career 2010: breakthrough year Lacourt collected three gold medal at the 2010 European Aquatics Championships, European Championships. He became European Champion in the 100 m backstroke (long course) ahead of compatriot Jérémy Stravius in a time of 52.11. This time was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinclair (singer)
Mathieu Blanc-Francard, known professionally as Sinclair (born 19 July 1970), is a French musician and singer-songwriter. Early life Born in 1970 at Tours, France, as son of Dominique Blanc-Francard and brother of Hubert Blanc-Francard, known professionally as Boom Bass (of Cassius), Mathieu Blanc-Francard grew up in Paris and went to school at the lycée Janson-de-Sailly. He became interested in music as a teenager and missed his baccalauréat. He briefly worked in a recording studio as an assistant sound engineer and learned the guitar. At this time he formed his first band and chose his stage name. Career Musical career Sinclair's first album, ''Que justice soit faite'' ("Let justice be done"), was released in 1993 and recorded with his brother's help. In the recording he played all the instruments except the drums. The album sold 100,000 copies and was certified as a "golden disc". Sinclair gave a hundred concerts to publicise this album, including a performance at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arielle Dombasle
Arielle Dombasle (born April 27, 1953)Dombasle's year of birth has been a subject of much debate, and various sources have given dates ranging from 1953 to 1958. is an American-born French singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's '' Pauline at the Beach'' (1983) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's '' The Blue Villa'' (1995). She has worked with a wide variety of filmmakers, including Werner Schroeter on '' Two'' (2002), Philippe de Broca on ''Amazon'' (2000), Roman Polanski on '' Tess'' (1979), Jean-Pierre Mocky on ''Crédit pour tous'' (2011) and Raoul Ruiz on '' Savage Souls'' (2001). She also starred in the 1984 ABC miniseries ''Lace'' and its 1985 sequel '' Lace II'' and appeared as a guest on ''Miami Vice'' ("Definitely Miami" of Season Two). Dombasle has released thirty-four singles and eleven albums and has directed six movies. Early years She was born Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Jean-Louis Melchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Patchett
Katrina Patchett (born 12 December 1986) is a professional ballroom dancer from Perth, Western Australia. Early life She has been dancing since the age of three and competing since the age of seven. She was brought up in her mother (Julie Patchett)'s dance studio in Perth, Western Australia, daughter of two internationally successful ballroom dancers who reached seventh in the world. At age thirteen she became a Western Australian State Champion. Career Patchett moved to Europe at the age of 16, living, training and working in Denmark (partnering with Joachim Dahlström) before moving to France, at 19, to partner with the former winner of ''The Dancing Show'', Maxime Dereymez. Together in 2007, they became the French national champions. The couple also reached fourth place at the IDSF Open in 2007. After three years in France, Patchett moved to Slovenia to dance with Blaz Pocajt and compete in the professional category at the age of 22. Towards the end of 2010, Dereymez and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Cerutti
Vincent Cerutti (born 16 March 1981) is a French radio and television presenter. Radio career At the age of 14, he began his radio career by a training course with community radios. He followed on MFM Radio from 2001 to 2005, on Bel RTL for a few months in 2004, and on Chérie FM in 2007. In summer 2010, he joined the radio station RTL, that gave him the opportunity of two hours of daily presenting from Monday to Friday during both months of July and August. After a break, he made his return on RTL in summer 2011 presenting the program ''Stop ou encore'', replacing Vincent Perrot, as well as co-hosting ''Itinéraire d'un auditeur gâté'' with Jean-Sébastien Petitdemange. In March 2013, he briefly presented the program ''Le Grand Morning'' on RTL2. Since September 2013, and for one season, he joined the station RFM where he presented the ''Interview V.I.P.'', from two to four Friday evenings every month. Since September 2014, he presents the morning section on Chérie FM. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
