France: Laurence Boccolini and Stéphane Bern to host 2022 national final 'Eurovision France: C’est vous qui décidez'

France: Laurence Boccolini and Stéphane Bern to host 2022 national final 'Eurovision France: C’est vous qui décidez'
Wednesday, 28 July 2021

  • Laurence Boccolini and Stéphane Bern will be returning to co-host the forthcoming French national final for Eurovision 2022 'Eurovision France: C’est vous qui décidez'.

    First light on the the details regarding France's next national selection has been shed as the hosts of the show have been confirmed. Laurence Boccolini and Stéphane Bern will be returning to present us the 2022 French national final. 

    In addition, the tv duo will serve as commentators for the French broadcaster in next year's Eurovision Grand final show, while Laurence Boccolini will comment solo on the two semi final shows ahead fo the final show. 

    The first host, Stéphane Bern, is a journalist, broadcaster and television presenter and is no stranger to the the French Eurovision family, as he has commented the Eurovision final in 2010 and from 2015 each year.

    Laurence Boccolini, maybe the newest, between the two, on board regarding the Eurovision community, but she is well known among the French viewers. Besides hosting TV games,  and standing out while hosting the French version of “The Weakest Link”, she participated in the first season of France’s Masked Singer which eventually she won!

    After the game 'Money Drop" in 2017,  she co-presented with Christophe Dechavanne on the set in South Africa the reality "I am a celebrity, get me out of there". This summer she decided to look elsewhere. In September, it was on France 2 that viewers watched her animating the old game played by Patrick Sabatier Password  in the morning. Then, since November 2, she is at the head of “One word can hide another”, on the same square.

    The two of them has presented us last year's  Eurovision France: C’est vous qui décidez!, which selected Barbara Pravi as the country's hopeful, bringing France a silver medal placing in Eurovision 2021. They were also the commentators for France 2 in the Eurovision 2021 grand final show. 

     

    Eurovision 2022 National selection

    France will be joining the party in Italy and will be determining the next Eurovision act and entry through the national selection format of Eurovision France: C'est Vous Qui Décidez'.

    ‘Eurovision France: c’est vous qui décidez’ was held for the first time this year with a total of 12 acts competing in the national final. It met satisfying viewing figures with an average of 2.37 million spectators tuning on the national selection show. The national selection show came as answer to last year's internal selection which saw wide critism against it. 

    The French broadcaster has launched the Eurovision 2022 national selection process opening the submission window for interested acts that ambition to represent the nation in the next contest in Italy. France 2 has released the rules and regulations  for the national final Eurovision France: C'est Vous Qui Décidez'.

    Acts interested to compete in the French national selection should send in their application via email at the following address: [email protected]. Submissions will be accpeted until October 24, 2021.

     

    France in Eurovision 


    France is  one of the seven countries that had its first participation back in 1956. Since then the country has won the contest 5 times. Last time was in 1977, with Marie Myriam and her song L’oiseau et l’enfant. The last two years, however,  seems to be an increasing interest for the contest .

    Destination Eurovision  was used for the first time as the country’s national selection format in 2018, including two recorded semi final shows and a live grand final. 2018 was the first time France held a nationa final since 2014. National final 2018 winners were the duo Madame Monsieur who represented France in Lisbon with their entry “Mercy” which finished 13th.

    In 2019 Bilal Hassani won the second edition of Destination Eurovision 2019 and defended the French colours in Tel Aviv with his entry Roi which came 16th in the Grand final.After that France Televisions went internal selecting Tom Leeb to represent the country in Rotterdam last May. Unfortunately his ESC 2020 journey never took place as the covid-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of this year's edition. 

    This year Barbara Pravi won the national final with her song 'Voila' and  defended the French colors in Rotterdam performing in the Grand final on May 22, 2021. The French hopeful almost won the competition finishing 2nd behind Italy's Maneskin with 499 points i the overall score

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