He has seen candidates pass by. Since 2001, Nikos Aliagas has been at the helm of the Star Academy, on TF1. That year, there was Jenifer (the big winner), Mario Barravecchio and Patrice Maktav. Passing through the show At Jordan’s (C8) on October 30, the latter also made a revelation about his love life.
Fans of the show know that Patrice Maktav experienced one (finalist of season 4 against Grégory Lemarchal and current repeater for the 2024 season). Both. But in December 2023, the beautiful 37-year-old brunette announced their separation. “It’s time to write these few little words that weren’t planned, but that will do me good. As we had not hidden our marriage, I owe it to myself and I owe it to him, after all that we have experienced (and which only belongs to us), to write to you that Patrice Maktav and I divorced a few months, with respect and kindness. He is a good man and I will always support him. Simply. I’m disabling comments under this post. I know you will understand. I will be discreet about my private life from now on. I owe that to myself and to those around me. THANKS“, she wrote.
Patrice Maktav and Olivia Ruiz as a couple after Star Academy
What we didn’t know, however, was that Patrice Maktav had a relationship with another candidate from the Star Academy. She participated in its edition in 2001. It is about, which was part of her life for no less than four years. “There’s a prescription today, I think I can swing ityou won’t blame me Olivia” he joked.
“We met in the game and we were like two aliens in a system. (…) We have musical chemistry, we only talked about stuff that no one knows. Everything is exacerbated in the Star Academy, we move up a gear very quickly. We are immediately very friends, happy or sad. I hadn’t entered the castle for that, but one thing led to another and that’s it…“, explained Patrice Maktav. But very quickly, he clarified that it is a “story that took time“. Indeed, he would never have had a rapprochement at the castle because at the time of filming, Olivia Ruiz was not free.
“I think we talked about having a baby at one point.. But we were in a situation where we were not yet established professionally. We were also quite young, so it wasn’t a priority. But, it’s certain that when you experience a story like that, you tell yourself that it’s for life. It was a very very beautiful story“, continued Patrice Maktav. If he did not wish to reveal the reasons for his breakup, he assured that they were still on good terms today.
