Gilbert Montagné never gets rid of his dark glasses. At the Gala on Thursday 8 December, the singer and former Mask Singer candidate explained that these aren’t useful to him “at all”.
At 70, Gilbert Montagne he hasn’t finished surprising his fans. A few months ago, the interpreter of Tropical sunlight participated in the third season of Masked singer slipping under the tree costume. And the singer had decided to hide his participation from his family. “It was hell for me! I hadn’t told it at all, not even my grandkids, because I wanted to keep the suspense. I thought it was fun to keep it a secret until the end“, explained to Gala🇧🇷 More Masked singer it is not the only program that Gilbert Montagné has participated in. Outraged The best pastry chefthe singer also tried the adventure Fort Boyard Some years ago. try it his blindness it doesn’t stop him from realizing his wildest dreams!
This medical error that made Gilbert Montagné blind
Because some may not know it, but Gilbert Montagné was not born blind. The singer was born five and a half months pregnant in 1981 and doctors didn’t think he would survive. In 2019 a Paris match, he explained that his heart had not stopped beating. Urgently transported to the neonatal service of the Port-Royal hospital, he had been looked after by Professor Minkowski. And that’s when a medical error occurred, which deprived him of his eyes for life. “They gave me oxygen, a little too much because, at the time, they had a bad understanding of dosing. The optic nerves have been burned! I have been blind ever since”, explained Gilbert Montagné.
The singer has never shed his dark glasses, wherever he goes. A purely imaginative object, as he explained to Nikos Aliagas a Gala this Thursday 8 December. When the star presenter of TF1 TV shows asked him what was behind these glasses, Gilbert Montagné replied: “Me, which amuses me that I don’t need them except to protect the little boy that they’re still somewhere”. A touching confession.
