It is a season of Koh Lanta which was to remain in the legend. It will be. But not for the reasons desired by TF1. Koh Lanta: the legend pitted the best of former adventurers against each other to celebrate the show’s 20th anniversary, and the winner was to be announced live Tuesday night on TF1. But, facing the two finalists Claude and Laurent and their former teammates, the presenter Denis Brogniart spoke at 11:38 p.m. to announce something quite different.
“Well tonight, I’m not going to do the count,” he announced live. “And I will explain to you immediately why: recently, we learned of a breach of the code of honor which appears in the rules of the Koh Lanta game. This occurs, you understood, several months after the votes of the final jury . So we investigated. And we found that indeed a small group of adventurers had broken this code of honor, by collecting food outside of the game. “
Clandestine meals, secret deliveries and pain au chocolat
Denis Brogniart then continued: “We will not give any name. We have submitted and verified by a bailiff these corroborating elements, which constitute an attack on fairness between the competitors and which could have distorted the progress of the game. This is why we will not proceed with the counting of the votes which was to decide between the two finalists No adventurer will be crowned winner of this edition of Koh Lanta: the legend. “
No Koh-Lanta winner this year, therefore. This outcome comes after numerous revelations of cheating cases committed by various adventurers. The newspaper The Parisian had in particular revealed a few days ago several cases of illegal meals taken at the inhabitant by several candidates, during the course of the game. The candidate Teheiura had also been eliminated after having been delivered food by fishermen.
100,000 euros for medical research
The Parisian revealed Tuesday another cheating: the finalists Claude and Laurent would have blackmailed and threatened to strike to obtain pastries after a test of comfort. Information denied by the production of the game to our colleagues 20 minutes. The season was also marred by the cyberstalking of several candidates. Denis Brogniart called for calm.
Finally, the 100,000 euros in earnings promised to the winner of Koh Lanta were donated to the fund for Bertrand-Kamal, named after this adventurer who died of pancreatic cancer in 2020. The next season of Koh Lanta, whose filming s’ is completed in the Philippines, will be broadcast in 2022. Hopefully with less fuss.