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The Queen is Back!

Since the end of her last tour in February of 2009 and an important TV show in Quebec at the beginning of March 2009, Celine’s public appearances had become rare. At the end of 2009, she was seen at the Disney Christmas Special on American television. At the beginning of 2010, she gave an interview to Michel Jasmin, was on Oprah and on Larry King to talk about the movie and the DVD’s that would be released during the first semester, and she sang at the Grammys and participated in « We are the world 25 for Haiti ».

Then, there were the photos and the generous and highly anticipated interview of pregnant Celine, more beautiful than ever, both physically and in her soul, marked by serenity, which brought so much joy in our hearts. And the birth of her miracle twins, on which the entire planet reported.

During these months, we, the fans, we have been happy to regularly see our idol again, who kept her book open for us. Her happiness to be a mother again moved us so much and reflected on us.

But we also had « 2011 » in our minds… 2011, the year of Celine’s returning onstage, for a brand new show. We have been patiently waiting for that particular year. Some months were so long… Those who will participate in the big Vegas adventure have also actively prepared for 2011…

February 2011… HERE WE ARE!!!! And again that’s an intense happiness shining on each and everyone of us, just pure excitement!!!! The rhythm is getting faster, the news are coming… It’s pure frenzy!!! The most wonderful announcements are made. They are describing Queen Celine’s highly anticipated return. Yes, Queen Celine, a Queen giving us so much:

– Yesterday, February 16th, Celine left Florida for several months. She first flew to Chicago in order to tape a special at Oprah’s! With 27 times on the show, as Mrs. Winfrey indicated, Celine is the guest with most number of participations in what is the most important talk show of the world. The show will air next Monday.

– Following this, Celine and her family (notably her 3 children, René and Maman Dion) immediately flew to Las Vegas, where she’s moving in in the most prestigious suite of Caesars Palace (her Lake Las Vegas mansion being refurbished). A triumphant return had been prepared for the occasion, for the star people had been waiting for months. From the airport, welcome messages were on the road to the hotel. An immense gathering, with hundreds of Caesars Palace’s employees and fans welcomed Celine « home ». Caesars Palace’s President Mr. Gary Selesner presented some red roses to Celine, who had one of her twins in her arms, the other twin being with René. Celine said she was very excited by this return and that she couldn’t wait for introducing her fans to the new show. The local media have underlined Celine Dion’s influence in Las Vegas, saying the whole city’s economy will benefit from this return, notably thanks to many international tourists coming for Celine. After rehearsals in January in Florida, she’s begining rehearsals at the Colosseum in Caesars Palace today.

– Last but not least, an exceptionnal annoucement was made, as Celine will sing for the 6th time at the Oscars, on February 27th, the most prestigious annual ceremony on the planet. Here again, this is a record. Celine already sang there in 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2007.

The one we love with passion and who continues to make us crazy is definitely back. What a thrill! This really is a Queen’s return. More than ever, we are proud to be Celine Dion fans.

Following her arrival at Caesars Palace, Celine and René gave an interview on TVA. here it is:

Interview on TVA

Goodbye « The Red Heads Have Got Talent! » First Edition

The Red Heads have got Talent!!!

And the winners are…

Here we are !!! As unveiled yesterday on Facebook, George Psomiadis is the great winner of the first edition of The Red Heads Have Got Talent, thanks to a superb and very emotional rendition of « Je sais pas / I don’t know » ! He will therefore be able to pick up his prize, that is to say either 555$ cash or a “dream night package” in Las Vegas.

We would like to warmly congratulate him on his victory. We can be proud of him and of his talent, well done! We should notice that the whole Greek fan community is also proudly being represented through him. Let’s take this opportunity to greet them! Ζήτω η Ελλάδα ! Μπράβο George!

Congratulations also to the two other winners, who were very close to victory. Stéphane Delobel from France gets second prize on his amazing acts as Céline Dion and will therefore get the magnificent book « Céline, au-delà de l’image », autographed by its author Diane Massicotte. Étienne Charpentier (also from France) will get a « The Red Heads » cap for his third place, thanks to his rendition and his very imaginative video of « Dans un autre monde ».

Iveta Kate Hanzlickova (Czech Republic) and François Delnooz (Belgium) have reached the fourth and fifth places. Bravo! You can be proud of your performances!

Some of you were extremely close to reaching the final and among them, two contestants are exceptionally awarded a “special distinction” from the jury, which thus wanted to underline the quality of their work and the originality of their concepts: these honorific mentions are officially granted to Joffrey Durel and Mélina Lama. They can be very proud, as the jury wanted to put emphasis on their performances through this nice gesture.

Regarding other participants, regardless of their ranking and how many votes they got, they deserve strong compliments: without the participation of everybody, this contest would not have been such a success. Each contribution, each participant counts enormously. Each video was a cornerstone, useful to the whole building! This is irreplaceable! You also MUST be proud of yourselves!

What conclusion to this first edition can we draw?

With these final results, the first edition of “The Red Heads Have Got Talent” is now already over… Oh yes « already »… And with some emotional feelings…

Yes, let’s say it, we are moved, overwhelmed with gratitude for the success this federative project got. Because we should remember that success is never guaranteed. For the Red Heads, it can only come as the result of a unique group movement, of a nice “spirit”. This is therefore the human aspect, which moves us the most and which we will want to remember in priority.

This success also came as a result of the participation of our jury : THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts! There are no word to express the gratitude we all owe to Véronic, Laura and Nicole, these exceptional ladies.

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The Jury had trouble deciding between the contestants and here are a few words about our finalists:

Georges Psomiadis
Wow. What an amazing and honest performance. Loved the artistic quality and bilingual interpretation. Beautiful, just beautiful! Une voix sublime, une interprétation originale et personnelle qui donne envie d’en entendre encore. Un vrai potentiel sans aucun doute !

Stephane Delobel
You look and move so much like Celine it’s crazy!! Amazing gestures, facial expressions, hair & makeup. I love this guy!! Incredible talent! Un véritable caméléon ! On ressent le plaisir avec lequel ce travail est réalisé, un artiste, déjà.

Etienne Charpentier
Brilliant concept! Great use of basic equipment and minimal setting to tell your story. Looks like you had so much fun creating this. So innovative! You rock! Un travail d’équipe, une aventure qui semble avoir réuni beaucoup de monde sur un projet commun. On ressent dans vos regards l’envie de faire les choses bien et de communiquer des choses positives… Beau travail, tout simplement.

Iveta Kate Hanzlickova
Nice to see a video made specifically for this contest. A little masterpiece of fun & energy. Un sketch amusant le tout porté avec enthousiasme! Votre énergie est communicative ! You go girls!

Francois Delnooz
The filming and editing were spectacular. Brought tears to my eyes. Celine’s voice really added to the emotion of this very touching and personal video. Excellent! Une vidéo tout en émotion… qui nous rappelle que la musique est aussi faite pour véhiculer des messages forts…

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It is no use underlining the figures we have presented during the different steps of the contest. They are simply amazing (e.g. thousands of visitors and votes), reaching levels we would not even have dared dreaming of. The number of fans of The Red Heads on Facebook reached a new high level, the community grew up.

But know it and believe it: this success is completely yours, each and everyone’s! More than ever, you are the drivers of the success of each Red Heads’ mission. Thank you again for your participation. The contest’s concept was just the perfect synthesis of the “Red Heads’ spirit”, the mirror of our own formula: gather, create, be original, be ambitious, help, participate, bring enthusiasm.

We hope you all had a good time with this contest, and that it allowed you to add some euphoria around Céline’s come back to Las Vegas. This hyphen brings us directly to less than 30 days before the Premiere, stay tuned!

And now ?

After this achievement and with respect to the already numerous requests… There may be… Who knows… In the future… “Maybe, probably, possibly”… AND IF YOU INSIST…

A SECOND EDITION OF THE RED HEAD HAVE GOT TALENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today more than ever, EACH and everyone of you is bringing The Red Heads higher, so that we all celebrate our passion for someone… who’s in our hearts.

« The Red Heads have got Talent! »: official ranking

You’ve been waiting for it! Time has come to publish the official ranking, compiled from your votes within the contest « The Red Heads have got Talent !»

During three days, you’ve been giving everything to get as many votes as possible, and thus reach the final and get closer to victory! Among you, 5 fans have showed an unparalleled determination and will now get the chance to be judged by our three Ladies… Three long days, during which everybody has been able to discover the contestant’s talent, with much pleasure. Who could have imagined you would all bring in so much creativity! Most of the concepts were clever and successfully completed, some featuring rare artistic and near-professional technical qualities… You’ve been impressive! Not counting those who created videos filled with joy, humor, emotion or crazyness, with very few means but some imagination.

Congratulation Ladies and Gentlemen! You can be proud of yourselves! BRAVO!

We were able to see how strong you can be in oreder to bring thousands of people to support your project. For a majority of the contestants, this has come not only as a personnal challenge, but also as an adventure, shared with friends and families… You were able to generate so much enthusiasm on the event and we were very impressed to see hundreds of visitors per hour on our website, thousands of voters and dozens of comments under each video! Can you believe what YOU have made?! Would you be happy to learn that, among those visitors, there are people from Céline’s team? So, who knows who has seen your video……… Who knows…..

Anyway, after 25 days in competition, it is nearly over. The finalists’ destiny is now in the hands of Véronic DiCaire, Nicole Coullier and Laura Landauer! Our jury will now have to grade each video, so as to finally determine who is going to be the first winner of « The Red Heads have got Talent ! ». During the whole week, Nicole, Véronic and Laura have been able to discover and to appreciate your work and it will be hard for them to chose who’s gonna win!

OUR 5 FINALISTS

George Psomiadis (Greece / Grèce)
François Delnooz (Belgium / Belgique)
Étienne Charpentier (France)
Iveta Kate Hanzlickova (Czech Republic / République Tchèque)
Stéphane Delobel (France)


Reminder: the rewards

The winner will have to chose from:

1 night in Las Vegas in the mythical Caesars Palace Hotel, with dinner, a trip in a limousine to visit the Strip by night and Champagne…

OR
555$ JACKPOT!!

2nd prize: the book « Celine, au-delà de l’image » autographed by its author Diane Massicotte
3rd prize: an official red cap « The Red Heads »


And now the results for each contestant (number of votes):

George Psomiadis 2692
François Delnooz 2654
Étienne Charpentier 2548
Iveta Kate Hanzlickova 2276
Stéphane Delobel 1859
Joffrey Durel 1697
Sarah Eddy 1499
Leticia López 1431
Shirley Kappler 823
Nicolas Martelli 669
Pascal Coluni 402
Sandra Tremblay 377
Sonia Ben Cheik 371
Mélina Lama 357
Krisnal Daniels Smith 345
Miriam Čierna 341
Andrea De Mitri 337
Sébastien Bara 310
Raphaël Grelot 296
Adeline Hanocq 283
Yoan Martins 261
Isman Poivre 241
Lina Cassalc 238
Nicolas Kefti 226
Frédéric Barba 224
Sandra Tannou 205
Sophie Da Agueda (France) 189
Martine Meyer 175
Lore Gauthier 166
Josélise Surprenant 116
Genevieve Buckingham 113
Manuel Michaud 110
Alba Rodrigo de la Torre 100
Kaïna Blada 92
Cecilia Vignola 90
Amélie Hattab 88
Bertrand Chapel 85
Ahmed Iheb Zouanbi 71
Audrey Proulx 67
Yann Sebile 64
Caroline Tchagaspanian 63
Marc Dufrenne 62
Julien Monnet 57
Petr Šír 56
Wulan Widyasari 56
Alexandra Lammers 51
Maureen Georges 51
Cynthia Puissesseau 44
Farid Yalloui 41
Estelle Lombard 39
Laura Sánchez Ruiz 38
Kévin Jolibois 32
Maria Grytsay 30
Rémy Choplet 29
Claude Paul 22
Sylvain Lablée 18
Alexandra Palchak 16
Sébastien Simon 16
Heimiti Lagoutte 13
Nicoletta Fyodorova 13
Angélique François 11
Mackenzie Campos 10
Mathilde Vignon 9
Mohd Yaser Arafat 9
Julien Péré 7
Lise Stephan 7
Charles Butler 5
Massimo Mazzanti 5
Sheridan Cassaer 4
Thierry Delnatte 2

« Rendez-vous » on Tuesday for the final result…

« The Red Heads have got Talent » – VOTES

THE RED HEADS HAVE GOT TALENT!


Thank you everybody for again bringing so much passion and enthusiasm into this 1st edition of « The Red Heads Have Got Talent! », which has become a great success! In less than 3 weeks, many of you have arranged plans to imagine, create, sing, stage and produce a video. And it has been a great pleasure to see each and everyone of you embark on this brand new adventure and take up the challenge, in a very short period of time!

But as we’ve already said before… IMPOSSIBLE IS NOT RED HEADS! About 200 fans have thus participated in this talent contest over less than 3 weeks, with more than 15 countries represented, from Thailand to Greece, through Quebec, Czech Republic, Switzerland, and Belgium, not counting Spain, France or even Algeria…!

CONGRATULATIONS EVERYBODY !!!!

We hope you had fun making your short videos! 🙂


After several exhilarating days, we know you are all very excited to discover the videos of other contestants and thus compare your work with theirs. And here we are! It is now all up to you! If you want your video or the video of your favourite to win, you will now have to VOTE!

Here is a reminder of the rules : you will need to get a maximum of “j’aime” (“I like it”) under you video from now until Saturday, 12th February, MIDNIGHT. Therefore, you just need to share the page of the Red Heads’ website on which your video appears and to convince your friends to vote. The race will last 3 days only, each clic will bring you closer to the FINAL and to the opportunity of having your video watched by our prestigious jury : Nicole Coullier, Véronic Dicaire and Laura Landauer !


SEE THE CONTESTANTS’ VIDEOS NOW AND VOTE BY CLICKING HERE !!!!!

60 days to go… Reservation figures so far…

60 days to go…

Reservation figures so far…


There are only 60 days left until our extraordinary journey begins, our « LasVegas2011 » mission, one of our major events in 2011! Only 60 days until we jump into the plane flying to Las Vegas, in order to attend the Premiere of Celine’s new show.

After about 3 months communicating on this event, we are proud to announce that more than 100 fans are to participate to at least one of the activities prepared for this adventure, which will gather fans from around the world. Among these activities, the Grand Canyon excursion is almost sold out, with already 50 fans having made reservations for the bus journey, including one night at the ranch. If you are still unsure, don’t wait too long! You don’t want to miss such an opportunity!! You will be in a real ranch in the American Far West, lost in the desert, kilometers away from any civilisation… All for you for 2 days, just for the Red heads… Don’t wait anymore!

The two days off for Céline will certainly be memorable for the Red Heads. And for the first time since the programme has been revealed, we have decided to show a few pictures in this article, so as to let you imagine the fantastic places awaiting you during this trip.

But before, the Red Heads event we are all waiting for is the After at The Pure NightClub with not less than 60 fans having made reservations for their tables (although we have not even started to communicate on this party)! We are therefore happy to let you know that presales are doing great. The 2 upcoming months will surely enable us to reach the biggest number of Celine Dion fans gathering in one place!!! There would be no better place than The Pure to celebrate this unique moment!!

So if you are still unsure, yea, YOU THERE!! Then stop thinking, prepare  your luggage and show us how much of a Red Head you are ! 😀

For any question regarding the journey in Las Vegas, hotel reservations, concert tickets, the party at Pure on March 15th, the Red Heads’ activities… one address : lesredheads@gmail.com


WE ARE HERE FOR YOU, LET US GUIDE YOU AND ENJOY THE JOURNEY… AND CELINE!