Eric Antoine, at the start-to-school conference of the M6 ​​group, in September 2017. -

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France has an incredible talent

will return for a fifteenth season on October 20, at 9:05 pm, on M6.

The filming plan had been completely upset this summer after one of the members of the jury tested positive for Covid-19: scheduled for the end of August, the recording could not start until mid-September.

The production, Fremantle, and the chain have opted for transparency.

Judging from a first glimpse shown to the media, the show will make no secret of the fact that the juror in question is Eric Antoine.

His health hazards will be mentioned on the air.

All the protagonists of the show, from candidates to jurors, including technicians and host Karine Le Marchand, took a PCR test several days before the start of the hearings.

Eric Antoine's test came back positive on the first day of filming.

"I was put in a quarantine room where I stayed all day waiting for news from the production and from M6", he told during the virtual conference presenting the show on Friday, at which

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"If you want sick leave, I'll spit on you"

“I was very worried because you know the financial stakes of a shoot… I spent a very hard day, with tears in my eyes, feeling myself guilty,” said Eric Antoine.

A "great suffering" moral, in his words, he preferred to deride from the resumption of filming.

“Every day, I would start by saying I had it, so I'm immune, so if you want sick leave, I'll spit you on it, no problem.

It relaxed everyone, ”smiles the comic and magician.

“[As comedians], we cannot, neither Pierre-Antoine [Damecour, who will present

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], nor Sugar Samy, nor me, not to talk about the Covid.

We play on reality, ”he continued.

And to insist: "My role is for life to be a party, so I'm going to make jokes so that people have a good laugh and have a good time with us."

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This does not mean that Eric Antoine takes things lightly, especially since the health crisis has an impact on his professional activities.

“I sold my theater in Aix en Provence,” he revealed.

And it breaks my heart to see my friends, in Aix or Marseille, closing their restaurants, it's depressing.

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An incredible casting

Déborah Huet, director of programs at Fremantle assures us: her teams have "succeeded in making a crazy casting".

 Incredible talent

is now a benchmark for live performance pros.

This global health crisis made them want to come and perform even more and to make the maximum effort.

It had been months since these people, for the most part, could no longer do their job.

"She adds:" Marianne James told us every day about the auditions: for her, it's the best casting since she has been on the jury.

We managed to find new disciplines and even in traditional disciplines such as singing, circus or dance, we had very beautiful messages… ”Judging by the first glimpse shown to the press, the surprises and the emotions will indeed be there, as well as the WTF performances, announced even more numerous than usual.

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