How Celine Dion Orchestrated Rumors About Her Romance With Dancer Pepe Munoz

These are rumors that agitated the world of show business for several months. After the disappearance of her husband René Angélil, it was a changed Céline Dion who appeared to her fans: thinner and more muscular, more independent and proud to take back her career in hand, the Quebec singer made several changes to reveal a whole new picture of her. In 2017, she then appeared at Paris Fashion Week in daring looks and far removed from her usual outfits. But above all, accompanied by a young dancer hitherto unknown: Pepe Munoz. Thirty-something, attractive and of Spanish origin, the latter is then presented as the one who prepares her for his shows, but also, as his companion. Yet their relationship is only “Platonic” according to Laurence Pieau and Hervé Tropéa, the authors of Celine Dion, the real story.

“She knows how to talk about her“explains in the book Marc-André Lemieux. “I remember a bit later, during a press event in the Browns store in Montreal, she was asked about Pepe. New photos of the two of them had just come out and she was asked if she was in love Before responding, Celine turned to her team and said: ‘I knew it was gonna bite on the hook, I knew that those photos would work‘”, confided the journalist. Thus, according to him, Celine Dion would have simply orchestrated an alleged love story with Pepe Munoz, who was engaged at the time and has since married, perhaps “to show that she was still alive”. “It was calculated. We know very well today that nothing happened between them, since they clarified”he says.

Celine Dion on her relationship with Pepe Munoz

Indeed, in 2019, Celine Dion had restored the truth about her relationship with Pepe Munoz in the columns of a British tabloid. “We’re friends. We’re best friends. Of course we hug and go out. He actually holds my hand when we go out, he’s a gentleman”she had thus specified, calling in particular on the public to “don’t mix everything up”while the first photos of her and her dancer had provoked strong reactions. “People started taking pictures and thinking, ‘Who is this guy? And Rene?'” had thus launched the Quebec singer, before concluding firmly: “From now on, when I say I’m single, please leave me alone. Thank you.”