Everything starts here: Aurel Ponce leaves the series!

This is an important chapter that closes where everything begins.

Following the successive departures of Mikael Mittelstadt, Nicolas Anselmo, Fabian Wolfrom, Thomas Da Costa, Khaled Aluakh, Claire Romain, Rick Cleve, Agustin Galliana and most recently Cathy Paciannathan, another iconic figure in the program is preparing to hang up his apron.

From the start of the series in 2020 to the present, Aurel Ponce, the interpreter of Salome Dickens, will indeed leave the TF1 cooking series after four years of good and faithful service.

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This was stated in an interview given to the magazine TV star that the actor announced the bad news.

“I need to fly“, he confides, adding, “There is a real parallel between Salome’s decision and my decision. My character spent four years at the institute. For my part, it’s almost four years in the series, I see them as training, as an apprentice, as an actor“.

A carefully thought-out decision, especially after “In a daily series, it takes six months to orchestrate a character’s exit“.

How will the writers justify the actor’s departure?

Fans can rest assured, the writers did not plan for Salome to die.

According to the actor, “While jogging along the beach with Kelly and Maya, Salome falls in love with an abandoned restaurant. A very beautiful building by the sea, for which he has a real love. The sight of this abandoned restaurant, which is for sale, runs through Salome’s mind. He decides to offer to buy it“.

Therefore, Salome will leave the Auguste Armani Institute and become the owner of a restaurant in Brittany. A logical ending for a character who is in his final year of graduate school.

“It’s the end of his learning and it’s the end of the cycle for my character. “ Salome’s interpreter elaborates on this topic before pointing out “Continuity for him is growing by owning this wonderful establishment in Brittany“.

Final departure?

Despite this departure, Orelli Ponce leaves the door open for a possible return. Still in the columns of our colleagues he says that his character “I’ll just be in a restaurant in Brittany, it’s not too far. So, if one day Salome has to go back to the Institute, she’d love to… but not right away“.

That’s enough to put a little balm in the hearts of “Here It All Begins” fans.