The journalist and TV presenter Nikos Aliagas is Friday the guest of Anne Roumanoff and her band in the program "It feels good".

He remembers at their microphone the difficult first weeks of Star Academy on TF1, and the kick in the buttocks that gave him his mother so that he continues to present the show.

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He is the face of Star Academy in the memory of many viewers.

Nikos Aliagas, however, almost abandoned the project a few weeks after the start of the show.

Guest on Friday of Anne Roumanoff's show

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feels 

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, the journalist and TV presenter explains the reasons that led him to consider giving up the telecrochet, and how his mother left him no other choice than to continue.

"She didn't care whether the show worked or not. What she wanted was for me to be happy and be consistent," said the host.

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After three weeks of broadcasts, Nikos Aliagas indeed makes a decision: he stops Star Academy and would not go to work the next day.

"I was lulled in the press, but really. It was violent! And at all levels," he recalls.

"Today you could no longer attack someone through the media like I was attacked back then."

"" Listen to me, boy… "

The presenter then decides to sleep on the sofa at his parents' house, in an HLM in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.

"I messed up, it happens," he sighs as he comes home.

"In the morning, around 5-6 o'clock, my mother wakes me up," recalls the Star Academy presenter.

Harula Aliagas, his mother, then takes him to the kitchen to have a coffee and chat with him.

And the least we can say is that she decides to put the ideas in place.

"Listen to me, my boy, your grandfather came back from the front where he had fought Nazism and fascism. He returned on foot, it took four months. We could not take off his shoes because the leather had come in. in skin and bone, ”she reminds him.

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"He never cried. He never complained. You, you have food and a magnificent job, who do you think you are !?", she annoys.

"So you get up, you finish what you started. And stop complaining, you just had to not go."

Nikos Aliagas listens to him and goes back to work as if nothing had happened.

He will finally present the Star Academy for eight seasons and will become one of the favorite animators of French.