Jean-Edouard of “Loft Story” risks amputation

Pioneer of reality TV in France thanks to his participation in the first season of
Loft Story, in 2001, on M6, Jean-Edouard Lipa will have to switch to billiards. The Frenchman confided on social networks, he must be operated on otherwise he risks a pulmonary embolism or the amputation of a leg.
“A month ago, I was diagnosed with a 10 cm double aneurysm of the popliteal artery in my left leg which had already resulted in the obstruction of two of the three lower arteries, he wrote.
On September 25th, I will be in the OR for 4 to 6 hours to try to repair this leg that I am so lacking. ”

Now 39 years old, he distinguished himself at the age of 20 by participating in the second reality TV show offered in France, after Adventures on the Net broadcast on TF1. He finished second, behind the winners Loana and Christophe. But what the public retained, it is especially his “exploits” with Loana in the loft pool. By making love in front of the cameras on April 28, 2001, the two participants boosted the audiences. M6, however, had not broadcast the complete scene, contenting itself with preliminary kisses. It was without counting on one where pirates who managed to break into the chain’s computer system. Having got their hands on the full scene, they released it on the internet (at the time, social media was non-existent or in its infancy) making a cult sequence.

A few days ago, on TF1, Loana returned to this television moment. “We did not measure the consequences of our act. The cameras were miniature, in the corners of the garden, and it could have been done somewhere else. When we had this stroke of madness, it was just a gesture of love. We didn’t do anything wrong and there is nothing perverse about it. ” The winner of the first season of Loft Story affirms never to have heard from Jean-Edouard, this one having decided to draw a line on their history. “I was just a one night stand for him. I cried for a week ”, she lamented. Recall that her heyday passed, the Frenchwoman has experienced several descents into hell made of depression, alcohol and drugs.

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