The show was taped on February 19, less than a month following Florent Pagny announced his inoperable lung cancer. Broadcast this Saturday evening, it is the first where Florent Pagny appears with his head completely shaved. With his usual elegance and detachment. “A new haircut”, launches Nikos Aliagas at the opening of « The Voice ». “It’s not even a haircut anymore,” retorts the telecrochet coach of the TF1 show with his ritual, accomplice smile.
“I spent five years like that”, he even recalls, in a nod to nearly thirty years of eccentric looks, passing like a yo-yo from very long hair to shaved. And from blond to gray over the years. “These chemos, it makes you lose your hair. But it’s okay, it doesn’t prevent us from staying in shape and looking good, ”adds the 60-year-old singer, still seemingly relaxed and detached, despite the treatment he is currently undergoing for six months.
Nikos Aliagas finds him an air of “Master Yoda” with his graying goatee. “It looks like the professor with the shaved head of X-Men”, launches the coach Amel Bent from his armchair. A hero, for sure, who does not desert his role.
“You are a warrior”
The moving, light-hearted exchange barely lasts a minute. Get to the music right away. At the Super Cross Battles refereed by the four coaches, including Vianney and Marc Lavoine. Florent Pagny laughed from the first duel and comforted the eliminated: “She enters the semi-finals, but you, you enter your career. »
Each sentence seems a little denser in weight of existence. We have heard them a hundred times since the birth of the show, but everything is so fragile. For one evening, winners or losers took a bit of a back seat. And if we hold our breath, it’s also because we hope to see the interpreter of “My freedom to think” in good shape, next week, for the semi-final and the first of two direct. He will then be in the middle of his chemotherapy and X-ray treatment.
“You are a warrior,” Nikos said. The only victory hoped for this year is that of health. That of a coach who has put his birthday concerts on hold and whose class never ceases to impress. To whom we very much wish to make his “61-year-old tour, suddenly”, as he had joked, as soon as he can.
