This Saturday, October 25, the Star Academy class of 2025 delivered an exceptional show for the second prime time of the season on TF1. But one performance didn’t convince Marlène Schaff, the stage performance teacher, at all. She revealed this “red card” to the students during the debrief.
It was their second prime. This Saturday, October 25, 2025, starting at 9:10 p.m. on TF1, the seventeen students from season 13 of Star Academy participated in another big evening, live from studio 217 in Aubervilliers. The goal? To show the audience what they had learned in a few days at the Château de Dammarie-les-Lys and give them a quality show. The stakes were even higher for Ema, Théo P., and Mehdi, all three nominated this week after passing mixed evaluations on Monday and Tuesday. It was ultimately the latter who was eliminated despite his strong performance on Yseult’s Indélébile .
Star Academy 2025: Marlène Schaff’s performances were not up to scratch
The show was also marked by Sarah’s immunity and the Academicians’ disappointing performance of this year’s anthem, Voulez-Vous by Abba. The day after the prime, Marlène Schaff, the stage performance teacher, visited her students to share her weekly debrief. After considering that this collegiate performance of the anthem ” was a huge warning ,” the teacher revealed what had displeased her even more during this prime. The coach revealed that she had been disappointed with the back-to-school medley. ” That’s my red card ,” she said, explaining that these were ” performances that were not up to what they could have been due to technical errors .”
She first addressed the girls who performed Michel Sardou’s Je vole . “ It was a complicated exercise. It’s the first time you’ve had to sing like that all together. You need to be one voice and more confident ,” she reproached them. “ There, it was very shy and this shyness made it very fluid. Mélissa, you were so in your emotion. When we cry, we no longer have much control over our larynx. Try to remember that there is the audience who is there. […] Stay in your song until the last note. Respect the music, the story: you are not alone on stage. ”
Marlene Schaff regrets a lack of connection between the boys
Marlène Schaff then blamed the boys who delivered their version of Jean-Jacques Goldman’s ” C’est ta chance .” ” The comments I made to the girls are the same ones I have to make to you. You weren’t together when you sang together. There was a lack of connection between you. You can’t react if you’re not listening ,” she concluded. A word to the wise.
