Micro in hand, Franglais in mouth and latex leotard, a strange creature regularly bursts onto our small screens, engaging in an artistic performance of doubtful taste but which cannot leave one indifferent. A circus act in which she is both the animal and the trainer. On April 10, it was on W9, in the reality TV game “The Power” (where we saw our bodybuilder Super Nanny reappear, Pascal the big brother), that Afida Turner arrived as a “guest exceptional”, singing his famous cover ofEtienneby Guesch Patti, version of Mother Christmas in fishnet stockings and on acid.
“You shouldn’t see her in real life, normally…”, had well summed up the Marseille comedian Redouane Bougheraba, still taken aback by his meeting with the singer, in “LOL: who laughs, leaves, season 4” (Amazon Prime). A now cult sequence. During the final of the game, at the end of February, while Audrey Lamy and the stand-up were competing in the goatee game, she appeared, molded in her silver lamé jumpsuit, and perched on 20 cm heels (“Are you ready?” Darling, Afida is here! “)to interpret (improvise?) the Goatee song (“I’m holding you, you’re holding me, oh yeahhh.” The first one to laugh, I’ll give him a hard time.”) before ending up as usual on all fours on the floor… “I am not prepared for this person”, Audrey Lamy said, as if she had met the Grinch in real life. In one month, the Goatee song has been listened to more than 370,000 times on Spotify. Afida Turner is now mainstream.
At first glance, the countess of the embarrassing happening is a 48-year-old woman, somewhat retouched, who we know mainly for her ludicrous appearances on C8, her pro-Trump outings on Twitter (a “self-made-man who has balls »), his marriage to the late Ronnie, Tina Turner’s son, and his incongruous friendship with Elisabeth Levy and Michel Polnareff. Afida Turner, who describes herself as “a woman of the people who is priceless”, never wants to talk about money in his interviews. But loves to give the incredible audience figures for his performances on “TPMP” or “An Almost Perfect Dinner”. The one who announced her candidacy for the presidential election on Twitter in 2020 (for “resolve the problems of “yellow vests” and, moreover, this violent police force”) has a little difficulty today remembering the name of Emmanuel Macron but adores Brigitte, especially her hair. Behind the exuberance – some would say the insignificance – of the character, Afida Turner is a textbook case.
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