This Wednesday, March 23, the host of Koh-Lanta, Denis Brogniart, ranted against Internet users who accuse candidate Olga of racism after the criticisms she made against Yannick in the episode of “Koh-Lanta , the Cursed Totem” broadcast the day before.
This Tuesday, March 22 during the council, Olga had started to cry, explaining that she had trouble letting her personality express itself, because she was afraid of Yannick’s reactions.
Racist remarks according to some Internet users who immediately took their keyboard to attack the young woman by leaving very violent comments against her.
Intolerable attacks for Denis Brogniart. “You can express difficulties without immediately being accused of being racist. I found it stupid, friends, but interstellar stupidity, ”said the host on Instagram, particularly angry. “It makes me go out of my hinges! Frankly, it annoys me to a point!”, he added.
“Olga is absolutely not racist,” he insists. According to him, the young woman could have had a relationship problem with any other of the candidates. “Don’t see problems where there are none. It can happen, there are times when it goes less well than at others. There are people who say it, there are people who don’t say it. Olga expressed it (…) But please, please stop! It is abysmal stupidity to put racism where there is none. Believe me, there is absolutely none”.
Stéphanie, another candidate from Koh-Lanta who was interviewing the host at the time of her rant, also made it clear that Olga’s criticism had absolutely nothing to do with racism.
Yannick reacts and confirms
Faced with the rise of the controversy, Yannick, the main interested party, also spoke on the subject. “I see, on the networks, a good number of reactions vis-à-vis the council and the comments made by Olga against me. Keep in mind that we are in a game, certainly exceptional from every point of view, but a GAME”, began the adventurer in a long story posted this Thursday, March 24 on Instagram.
“Olga gave her perception of my person and it belongs to her. This surprised me because the opposite of who I am and what I want to convey in terms of values and feelings. Especially for a certain little girl who looks at me with admiration. I think that beyond the remarks that I consider quite violent at the time, Olga is not racist and she has never shown towards me a behavior which suggested that…”, he claimed. before adding: “At the same time, I measure the scope and the impact that this can have on the black community. And I’m sorry. We are still at this level and it pains me (…) Let violence of all kinds far from that and far from this moment of sharing, fun, suspense and emotions, “he concluded. .