Season 17 of “Love is in the meadow”: how the candidates are selected

Héloïse Goy with Alexis Patri 10:39 a.m., February 14, 2022

Love returns to the meadow on Monday evening.

M6 launches the 17th season of its meeting program in rural areas, with the broadcast of portraits of single farmers.

This year, nine men and four women, aged 24 to 72 and coming from the four corners of France, will try to find love in front of the cameras.

"We received between 500 and 600 applications", explains on Europe 1 Déborah Huet, the program director of Fremantle (the production company behind the show).

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"The team of women who have been working on the show for years called them all. They went to spend a day with about sixty of them on their farm," she continues.

"They have a small camera with which they shoot their interview. It is these first portraits that then allow us to make the final selection, between us, but also with M6. It works at the heart of the team." 

A duo of candidates

Among the novelties of this year, a father and his daughter, Jean-Paul and Emmanuelle.

They are 70 and 42 years old, are winegrowers in the Grand Est and are both looking for love.

The portraits of these candidates and the eleven others will be presented Monday evening on M6, before receiving the response letters from viewers. 

“In general, we receive between 1,500 and 2,000 letters, emails and parcels”, estimates Déborah Huet at the microphone of Europe 1. “Of course, some farmers only receive a few letters. But it is not the quantity that counts, it's quality. We warn them and we prepare them for this. Last year, Hervé had only received three letters. But, among these three letters, there was that of Stéphanie."

Fans of the show know that Hervé and Stéphanie are still together today.

The launch of season 17 of

takes place Monday evening on M6, at 9:10 p.m.