CELINE Dion’s showstopping show astatine the commencement of the Paris 2024 Olympics was a fake, caller claims allege.
Millions were moved to tears erstwhile the 56-year-old Canadian superstar sang Hymne à L’amour (Hymn to Love) infront of the Eiffel Tower.
Dion's uncommon show was a highlight of the Opening Ceremony aft the Queen of Power Ballads was diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome.
But aggregate euphony manufacture experts contiguous person said the July 26th show was pre-recorded, Liberation paper claims.
Paris 2024 organisers refused to reply questions connected the scandal, contempt antecedently insisting that the show was so a unrecorded one.
Composer and performer Etienne Guéreau said: "What we heard connected TV was a corrected playback."
A dependable technologist who asked to stay anonymous besides said: "It was 100% playback, you tin perceive it from the archetypal notes."
Others said it was ‘"without a shadiness of a doubt" pre-recorded, arsenic was a show by Dion successful rehearsals.
The Olympics perfomance was a triumphant comeback for Dion, who has been battling the incurable stiff-person syndrome.
Hymne à L'amour was chosen due to the fact that it was primitively sung by the precocious French euphony icon Edith Piaf.
Thousands of fans took to societal media to praise Dion, whose top hits see My Heart Will Go On, the taxable from the Titanic movie.
One instrumentality said: "Ok I'm due affectional astatine Celine's performance, conscionable wow!"
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Another gushed: "Queen Celine is backmost and she sounds fantastic".
It was successful 2022 that Dion disclosed that she was diagnosed with the neurological upset which causes muscles to stiffen and spasm.
She past made a vow to instrumentality to the signifier "even if I person to crawl", adding: "My extremity is to spot the Eiffel Tower again!"
Around 104,000 radical paid for tickets to ticker the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony live, with the champion seats costing much than £2500.
Despite dense rain, galore sat done aggregate acts, including a pre-recorded fig by Lady Gaga, which was shown connected aggregate screens on the river, arsenic good arsenic astir the world.
But Dion’s show was meant to beryllium a unrecorded one, and it has conscionable been released arsenic specified connected assorted streaming platforms.
Dion announced connected Instagram connected Thursday that the ‘live’ signaling was disposable connected sites specified arsenic YouTube and Spotify.
She announced: "God brings unneurotic those who emotion each other."
These are Piaf’s words to the emotion of her life, French-Algerian boxer Marcel Cerdan, who died successful a level clang successful October 1949.
French president Emmanuel Macron spoke astir the Dion Olympics show successful an interrogation with Variety mag this week, saying it caused the "biggest emotion" of each astatine Paris 2024.
The Opening Ceremony chiefly held on the banks of the River Seine – 1 that President Emmanuel Macron said was the "emotional highlight" of the sporting extravaganza.
'BACK ON THE HORSE'
Aside from the Olympic Games, Celine is besides readying a comeback successful Las Vegas.
Sources exclusively told The U.S. Sun she is readying a constricted tally of shows this fall.
Celine is rumored to beryllium performing her top hits for a 70-minute show.
The shows volition astir apt instrumentality spot astatine the Resorts World Theatre astatine astir the clip of the Las Vegas Formula One Grand Prix, a root said.
An insider revealed if Celine's wellness gets worse the program is to propulsion the residency back.
Concert promoter AEG would big the shows, with a “short tally astatine first” to spot if Celine tin grip performing live.
Celine, who lives successful Sin City, has been rehearsing musicians and dependable therapists for the past 8 months, a root told The U.S. Sun.
“Her tendency to instrumentality and entertain has been a immense driving unit successful her wellness battles," the root said.