Vaimalama Chaves joins "Dancing with the stars" at the last minute

This is called a surprise announcement.

While everyone (the

"Television" service

included) thought that the cast of the eleventh season of

was complete, TF1 announced the arrival of Vaimalama Chaves this Friday, one week before the return of the broadcast on the air, confirming information from the

.

Presented as a singer by the channel - she released an album at the end of 2020 - Vaimalama Chaves is best known as Miss France 2019. A cast without a beauty queen is also rare in the show.

Before her, Valérie Bègue, Laury Thilleman, Sophie Vouzelaud, Sylvie Tellier, Élodie Gossuin, Iris Mittenaere and Linda Hardy all participated.

Vaimalama Chaves will therefore be the eighth to set foot on the floor on the arm of a partner whose name we do not yet know.

"Frankly, it's not that bad"

On her Instagram account, where she is followed by more than 560,000 people, the model shared the first images of her rehearsals.

“It's my second day.

I need to practice hard again but frankly, it's not so bad, ”she wrote in the story.

In competition against her, Vaimalama Chaves will have to face the actresses Lucie Lucas (

) and Aurélie Pons (

).

The actor Jean-Baptiste Maunier, the singer Bilal Hassani, the comedian Gérémy Crédeville, the singer Lââm, the ex-hero of

Moussa Niang, the singer Wejdene, the queen of burlesque Dita von Teese, the singer Lola Dubini, singer Tayc and YouTuber Michou complete the cast.

Unless production and the chain have other last-minute surprises in store for us.

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