Star Academy 8: who's who

Here's this year's crop of eleves hoping to follow in the footsteps of last year's winner Quentin Mosimann. (Photos courtesy of http://www.tf1.fr/)

The girls:

Ana - age 16 - from Brussels

Alice - age 19 - from Marseille

Anissa - age 26 - from Villepinte

Joanna - age 21 - from Saint Avold

Julia - age 18 - from Lyon

Laure - age 21 - from Nice

Maryline - age 22 - from Narbonne

Soléne - age 18 - from Lesigny

The boys:

Edouard - age 22 - from Paris

Gaetan - age 19 - from Montrouge

Gautier - age 20 - from Clermont-Ferrand

Harold - age 28 - from Levallois-Perret

Mickels - age 25 - from Paris

Quentin - age 17 - from Montpellier

Yvane - age 29 - from Bourg-la-Reine

It's early days and I don't have a clear favourite, but I think that Joanna, Gautier and Harold could all be in with a chance.

P.S. Meant to say there's a new theme tune "Superstar (That's What You Are)" by the Merrymakers. This replaces Bob Sinclar's fab "Love Generation" which was the theme tune from 2005-2007, and that replaced "Run Baby Run" by Bustafunk which was the theme tune for the first four seasons.