2021: the island of temptation
Thunderclap on “Koh-Lanta La Légende”, the “All Stars” edition of the famous TF1 game! On November 9, Teheiura Teahui, one of the show’s iconic contestants, is accused of soliciting and obtaining food – steak and chips, cooked vegetables and fruit – from local fishermen. “Unfair behavior, which constitutes a breach of ethics and the rules of” Koh Lanta “”, denounces the host, Denis Brogniart, facing the candidate, sheepish. “Torn by hunger, I couldn’t resist”, recognizes the latter in a message of apology posted on social networks. Teheiura is sent off on the spot. He would not however be the only one to have benefited from these clandestine meals. “Some admitted having shared with him”, thus confirmed a member of the production at Parisian.
2017: the wheel was loaded
Asked about the case of Olivier Chiabodo in “Les Grosses Têtes”, the RTL program, Christophe Dechavanne reveals that he has happened to cheat for “Help candidates” of “The Wheel of Fortune”, the game he hosted on TF1 between 2006 and 2011. “As I used to, after a while, to see the rhythm of this fucking wheel, I knew when we were throwing it, where it was going roughly, so I would help the candidate by giving him a little (…). It even happened to me to give the answer in the final so that the guy wins a car ”, he admits, saying that these nudges had earned him “Reflections” from production.
2013: love before the meadow
In 2013, a candidate was forced to give up from the first episode of “Love is in the meadow” on M6. The reason ? He met two suitors before the show even started and began a secret relationship with each of them. The pot aux roses is quickly discovered when the farmer, who had selected the two women to participate in a speed dating, finally decides… not to retain them. “It exploded in front of all the other candidates”, tells one of them to the weekly Here is. Believing that the principle of the issue was ” fake “, the production decides to suspend the participation of the candidate, without however depriving him of antenna, since he himself was invited to explain the situation to the televiewers in the following episodes.
2008: express fraud
In 2008, two former collaborators of the program “Beijing Express” – a hitchhiking race through several countries, in which the candidates cannot spend more than one euro per day – reveal in The chained Duck that the production asked them to pay drivers to help some participants. Philippe Barthelotte, one of the two, also tells the JDD how a driver came back with a “Real feast” after two candidates had asked him to help them out with a simple packet of crisps. “The following days, he transported two other teams several hours apart until the finish of the stage”, adds the one who slammed the door of Studio 89, the company producing the game, to protest against these practices.
1997: pointed out
In 1997, Olivier Chiabodo, at the time host of “Intervilles”, was at the center of a cheating affair involving Bruno Retailleau, the current president of the Les Républicains group in the Senate. The young elected from Vendée was then a member of the Puy du Fou team, the park of his mentor, Philippe de Villiers. He is accused of having blown an answer to the champion of his team with the help of the host, caught in the act after indicating the solution with his fingers. Bruno Retailleau is not worried. Chiabodo is fired. The case bounced back twenty years later when the host, again dismissed by TF1 after being reinstated, filed a complaint for “Moral harassment”. And accuses Gérard Louvain, the producer of the show, of being responsible for the cheating and of having threatened him with death …