• Friday, TF1 broadcasts at 9:05 p.m. the first of the two naked Stars .
  • In this show, personalities rehearse a striptease number, which they will have to perform on the Lido stage.
  • The purpose of the program is to raise public awareness of the importance of screening for testicular, prostate and breast cancers.

"Fifteen personalities strip naked to raise awareness about testicular, prostate and breast cancer!" Let us recognize it, the description of Stars naked , on the invitation card to the presentation of the new emission of TF1, inspired the circumspection. In fact, many of the sisters and brothers displayed a doubtful face this Thursday morning in December when the first images were shown to the press.

We would like to make us believe that watching Philippe Candeloro or Maeva Galanter fall up, then down, could push us into a medical office? The cynics that we are especially saw in this project a pretext to offer a little coquinou and voyeuristic thrill in prime time. Except that, after having had an overview of the program, the first number of which will be broadcast this Friday at 9:05 pm, we found ourselves with tears in our eyes. Prejudice was blown away and the idea of ​​stalling a palpation of control as quickly as possible had gained ground.

Stars à Nu is not limited to backstage rehearsals for a handful of famous people (see box) preparing to perform a striptease on the Lido stage in front of thousands of eyes. Singer Fanny Leeb has embarked on the adventure because she unfortunately knows what breast cancer is. She was reached last year and has repeatedly mentioned her fight on social networks. The passage in this emission takes part in its catharsis. "The fact that we get naked at the end is one thing, but it's all the experience, the challenges that we realize that are interesting," she says. There is a real message going through. "

"It's important to play down, because the word cancer is scary"

In Stars à nu , there are of course quite funny sequences, especially when the boys try to show their sensual side, but also more serious passages. Former patients come to talk about their fight against cancer. Jean-Pierre Pernault thus speaks without false modesty of the prostate cancer which he conquered last year and of the direct consequences of the operation. Baptiste Giabbiconi was particularly marked by the testimony of a man on his testicular cancer. "It touched me, because I'm freaking out a lot, he came to talk to us about it very naturally. He was in his locker room after a rugby match, he felt a lump, he was able to get tested in time. "

Entertainment makes it possible to approach prevention in a less anxiety-provoking way than certain awareness campaigns. "It's important to play down, because the word cancer is scary," says Fanny Leeb. When the boys take turns palpating the testicles, "it's fun, concedes Baptiste Giabiconi, but we must make viewers understand that there is a real subject behind". Stars à nu also makes it possible to involve those who did not really feel concerned, like Heloise Martin, not necessarily imagining that breast cancer could strike at any age.

Firmine Richard's tears

During the program, the personalities take up several challenges. For example, boys pose naked for a photographer, girls do the same in front of Fine Arts students. At these times, these figures find themselves naked in every sense of the term and are confronted with their own vulnerability. Some of the men display uptight looks when they drop the boxer, while others are perfectly comfortable. The actress Firmine Richard, she bursts into tears during a seemingly harmless challenge consisting of parading sensually.

These moments of truth, rather unexpected in the context of entertainment, may encourage spectators to reflect on their relationship to nudity, their modesty. Implicitly, this tells us that if these people manage to strip in front of the cameras and the Lido audience, undressing before a doctor for a prostate or breast palpation is a health walk. "The trick is to make people laugh, cry and think," concludes host Alessandra Sublet. If, in the end, we can convince people to go for screening, we will have won. "

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This Friday, the first issue of Stars à Nu will be the one with men. Baptiste Giabiconi, Philippe Candeloro, Bruno Guillon, Alexandre Devoise, Satya Oblette, Olivier Delacroix and Franck Sémonin will be coached in particular by Chris Marques. Next Friday, it will be the women's turn: Alessandra Sublet, Mareva Galanter, Firmine Richard, Héloïse Martin, Nadège Beausson-Diagne, Maddy Burciaga and Fanny Leeb.

Fabien Randanne