It was in 2021 that TF1’s flagship show, for its All Stars edition, was marred by an unprecedented case of cheating. A season of Koh-Lanta which finally ended without the coronation of a winner and on which the producer Alexia Laroche-Joubert returns in the show PAF on C8 this Wednesday, September 6.
If there is indeed an essential personality in the middle of French television, it is the producer who has become CEO of one of the biggest production companies in France, Alexia Laroche-Joubert. She has known everything, loft storyhas miss Franceto the Star Academyhas Fort Boyardthe 53-year-old businesswoman was also one of the godmothers of the success of TF1’s flagship program, Koh Lanta. She was also at the head of the program when in 2021, the All Stars edition had been marred by the famous cheating affair with the Polynesian Teheiura.
An unprecedented case on which the producer returned this Wednesday, September 6 in the show FAP of C8. If in the end no winner was crowned at the exit of this edition and that the gains were given to an association which fights against cancer, this story of cheating concerning food had still shaken the program as confided Alexia Laroche Joubert: We found out because we’re starting to hear weird conversations between the candidates. We don’t quite understand what is being said“. It was then that he clearly decided to go ask Teheiura what was going on and the Polynesian directly confessed.
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“It was very honest on his part”
While the production did not expect that, Teheiura admits his fault openly: “ Teheiura immediately told us, he told us “it’s very unworthy of me, I admit it, I don’t understand what happened to me”, he told us like that with a lot of emotion and we told him that we couldn’t tolerate that “. Information on which the host of FAPPascale de la Tour du Pin bounces back directly: “fault confessed half forgiven, it is still a strong act“. Yet Alexia Laroche-Joubert stops him:It was impossible to continue the program with him, but it’s true that it was very honest on his part“.
Revelations which had then excessively disappointed the Koh-Lanta teams including its presenter Denis Brogniart who had revealed in February 2022 forRMC: “What bothered me was learning about it afterwards. You feel like the turkey of the farce. (…) I do not excuse them, and I will never excuse them“. A fairly categorical reaction that Alexia Laroche-Joubert tempers today: “We understood, the deprivation is very difficult especially since we must not forget that it was at the time of the legends, it was really a very particular edition over the 20 years and therefore the period was difficult, I confess“. Even if water has flowed under the bridges, this story of cheating remains branded all the same in the history ofKoh Lantawithout harming the program, as the producer explains: “What harms a program is when the production is complicit in something. When the production suffers in the same way as the viewer, we are victims“.
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