"Fort boyard" is coming back in force: this detail which annoyed internet users: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

The launch of the 31st season of Fort Boyard was eagerly awaited on Saturday July 11 on France 2. A new team made up of Camille Cerf, Clémence Botino, Booder, Tom Leeb and Claude of Koh Lanta tried to outsmart the traps and solve the puzzles of Father Fouras. A program slightly turned upside down by the imperatives linked to the health crisis. The candidates arrived masked and had to respect certain distances between them in the alleys of the Fort. New characters like that of Cyril Gossbo, played by host Cyril Féraud, have appeared. Novelties which did not scare the candidates who left with the sum of 12,000 euros which will be donated to the association The Good Fairies. A nice collective success that comes to crown a nice audience success for the channel. This first issue of season 31 brought together 3.5 million young and old viewers, or 20.4% audience share, according to figures published by Médiamétrie.

Internet users are annoyed by the presence of tigers in "Fort Boyard"

Despite this nice score, many internet users pointed out that certain animals, such as tigers, were always retained for filming. "And strong boyar? What a shame .. poor tigers trapped in this …. blockhouse …. can't you act?","Fort Boyard: a circus on the sea. If we fight against animals in circuses, then, logically, we must also rebel against the presence of tigers, snakes etc ridiculed by humans"., can we read on Twitter. In 2017, Isabelle Goetz, spokesperson for PETA already asked for the withdrawal of the felines from the program. Comments that had then reacted their trainer Thierry Le Portier:"They don't know my tigers and never came to see them on Fort Boyard ", he confided to Télé-Loisirs. Telestar specifies indeed that the tigers do not reside on the Fort throughout the year but that they are routed one week before the beginning of the shootings. The rest of the year, the tigers are in Vendée, at the trainer's. After the controversy linked to the presence of Intervilles cows, Fort Boyard may have just reopened the debate again.

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