Michael Goldman resumes his role as director of the Star Academy for a new season, which begins this November 4, 2023 on TF1. Return to the course
He obviously avoids bringing up the subject, but Michael Goldmann already has his favorites for the 2023 edition of the star Academy. The director of the TF1 star school still provided some clues about his favorites before the launch of the 2023 season, this Saturday, November 4, on the first channel. Alex, a 23-year-old candidate from the Paris region who has already amazed many spectators with his performances on Tik-Tok, is one of those who is in his favor.
Michael Goldman, the director of promotion, already considers him one of his favorite candidates. “It’s one of the 4 or 5 that I absolutely wanted to see there,” the person told the show “Quotidien” a few days before the launch.
Last year, for the big return of the Star Academy, Michael Goldman became, at the age of 43, the new director of the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys. A role that he is reprising for this new season of the TV show. The opportunity to get to know this producer and his illustrious father, Jean-Jacques Goldman.
Relatively unknown to the general public, Michael Goldman made a name for himself in the music industry by creating in 2007 the label and crowdfunding platform reserved for musicians My Major Company, which manages, among others, the career of Joyce Jonathan. Born on July 24, 1979 in Paris, he also launched the French crowdfunding platform Tipeee in 2013.
A lyricist in his spare time, Michael Goldman found himself at the heart of a controversy following the release of the controversial documentary on Covid-19 Hold-up, at the end of 2020, its platform having hosted its financing. “I accept everything that is on this site, from the most anti-Semitic to the least anti-Semitic, and from the most conspiratorial to the least conspiratorial,” he declared in the program Complément d’investigation on France 2 in 2021, advocating freedom of speech.
So agreeing to become the new director of the Star Academy was not obvious for Michael Goldman. “To be completely honest, I hesitated for a moment to be part of this adventure and I said yes when attending the casting because the kids made me fall for it,” he confides to Parisian. And to elaborate: “Helping young people is a family thing, I come from a family that loves taking care of little ones! My mother and my big sister are children’s psychologists, my other sisters are pediatricians!”
Michael Goldman, son of Jean-Jacques Goldman
When talking about Michael Goldman, it’s difficult not to talk about his father, the singer Jean-Jacques Goldman. “I’ve been used to being told about it since I was born (…) It’s part of my identity, it’s normal. As for my father, he congratulated me when he knew I was going to do the show. I’m not sure if he had TV but the Star Acit’s one of the only shows where he did a little promotion so he remembered it well”, explains the producer to Le Parisien before returning to the Star Academy.
Needless to say, Jean-Jacques Goldman was not completely absent from this first bonus, since Nikos couldn’t help but make a little joke to the director, who then confided that he was incapable of doing what the students had done. during this first evening. “Just in a moment, Michael Goldman is playing all of his father’s hits!” said the TF1 presenter, all smiles.
Who is Michael Goldman’s mother?
Before his entry into the Star Academy, Michael Goldman was relatively unknown to the public, unlike his father, Jean-Jacques Goldman. If the latter has been among the favorite personalities of the French for many years, his mother has remained in the shadows throughout Jean-Jacques Goldman’s career: this is Catherine Morlet, who shared the life of Jean-Jacques Goldman for two years. On July 7, 1975, Jean-Jacques Goldman married Catherine Morlet. Together, they have three children, Caroline, born in 1975, Michael in 1979 and Nina in 1985. The couple divorced in 1997 after 22 years of marriage.
Who are Jean-Jacques Goldman’s other children?
Jean-Jacques Goldman married Catherine Morlet in 1975. Michael Goldman has an older sister, Caroline, born the same year, and a younger sister, born in 1985. After his remarriage in 2002, Jean-Jacques Goldman again had three daughters, Maya born in 2004, Kimi in 2005 and Rose in 2007. Michael Goldman therefore has five sisters and half-sisters.
Caroline Goldman, during an interview with “Télé-Loisirs”, recently revealed a well-kept secret of the Goldman family: the children of star Jean-Jacques Goldman systematically lied about their father’s profession during their schooling. Michaël, Caroline, 47, and Nina, 39, made people believe that their father was a plumber to, it seems, protect their privacy and that of their father.
Caroline Goldman, a psychologist by profession, insists that their father’s fame never influenced family ethics. “This dimension has never had the slightest place in our family values,” she explains. The psychologist recently defended her father’s integrity in the face of criticism concerning his opinion on education and his opposition to “positive education” in particular, affirming that Jean-Jacques Goldman was far from being a tyrant.
Why Michael Goldman at Star Academy?
The appointment of Michael Goldman, accomplished producer, to the post of director of the Star Academy sounded like “obviousness” according to a source close to the matter interviewed in 2022 by The Parisian : “He’s 43 years old, he knows the music industry like the back of his hand, he’s excited about the project, he has a good face… And then the name Goldman will definitely help, let’s face it!” , added the same anonymous source.
Nikos Aliagas, who took back control of the presentation of the Star Academy, then welcomed the arrival of this new face. “Michael made his way on his own, despite his father’s name and for a reason because he loves music and discovering talents. Every word counts. We chose him because he never asked to be there”, he underlined on the set of Quotidien Friday October 14, 2022.
Michael Goldman therefore took over from Alexia Laroche-Joubert (director of the star Academy in 2001 and 2002, then from 2005 to 2007), Nathalie André, Gérard Louvin and Armande Altaï.
How much does Michael Goldman earn at Star Academy?
At the Star Academy, Michael Goldman is, according to information from Here, the highest paid of all the teaching staff. According to the magazine, the promotion director had earned around 30,000 euros for six weeks of competition, or… 5,000 euros per week, during the 2022 season. He would thus have beaten the dance teacher , Yanis Marshall, with 18,000 euros, Adeline Toniutti, singing teacher, Laure Balon, stage expression teacher and Lucie Bernardioni, coach, all three of whom would receive 6,000 euros. Pierre de Brauer, the theater teacher, would be the least well paid with a salary of 3,600 euros.