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Chantal Goya will never forget Friday, December 13, 1985. At the time, the children’s singer was at the height of her popularity thanks to a multitude of popular hits such as “Bécassine”, “Pandi Panda”, “Babar”, “Davy Crockett”, “A rabbit” or “Bouba the little bear”. Except that his appearance on the show “The Game of Truth” for Christmas, live in front of 15 million viewers, turned into a fiasco. Chantal Goya, who has just played her show in front of thousands of children at the Palais des Sports in Lyon, is undermined by a teacher contacted by telephone who takes a very dim view of her influence on the younger generation, and asks her in a dry tone: “Do you think it is necessary to appear like a very small girl in the eyes of the children whom you confine in a mind-numbing system? “. In order not to lose face, the artist remains anchored in her character and responds with lightness by making faces, in particular launching the phrase “fairies have no age, my little lady”. A lunar sequence which will cause great harm to his career, and will even be the beginning of a “descent into hell” according to the documentary “What has become of the stars of our childhood?”, broadcast Tuesday July 11 on TF1.
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“It was the game of lies, rather!”
Nearly 40 years later, Chantal Goya has still not digested the trap set for her by host Patrick Sabatier, at the helm of the show. And she agreed to talk about it again for the report. “When there was the story of the “Game of truth”, finally if we can call it “The game of truth”… “The game of lies” rather because it was unhealthy, Sabatier was unhealthy . The meaning of the show was unhealthy and the people around were as unhealthy as Sabatier” denounces Jean-Jacques Debout, the singer’s husband and creator of her cult songs. Chantal Goya recalls that she is “the only artist who [a fait l’émission] live after [son] show”, in front of an audience of 10,000 people: “I wanted each time to defend my audience who loved me and who was in front of me and I said to myself: “It’s not possible what they’re all telling me , it’s frightening” “.
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“I drew a line”
According to Jean-Jacques Debout, the bad buzz was deliberately orchestrated by Patrick Sabatier in order to impress… Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian president who had just launched his new channel, La Cinq, in France via the Fininvest company. “He had met Sabatier who was fashionable at the time and Berlusconi said to him: ‘Prove to me that you have so many viewers’ and to achieve the number of viewers he wanted to do, of course, he wanted to shoot Chantal. so as to make a buzz” advances the lyricist. Since this incident, they have never spoken to Patrick Sabatier again: “I drew a line. I know he’s someone I’ll never see again in my life and I haven’t wanted to for a long time. He tried to see Chantal again and there was nothing to do.
In 2015, Patrick Sabatier said in the pages of Télé Star that Chantal Goya had “freaked out” that evening. “These are the risks of live. She told Chantal everything, especially that she was not a real teacher. I let her say… I did everything to preserve her image as a child star at the time. But there are evenings like that…” he lamented, without apologizing. The previous year, the television presenter had implied in Thierry Ardisson’s “Salut les Terriens” program that Chantal Goya was not in her normal state during this famous program: “All I can say is is that she was not at 8:30 p.m. as I saw her at 7 p.m. Something happened “.
2023-07-15 12:25:27
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