For several weeks now, TF1 viewers have been following the adventures of the candidates of Koh-Lanta, The Immunity Hunters. If this year, filming seems to be going smoothly, this was not the case in 2018. In fact, during season 19 of the adventure game, production simply decided to stop filming. The reason ? One of the participants, Candide Renard, indicated that she had been sexually assaulted by Eddy Guyot, also a candidate. On his return to France, the young athlete was taken into police custody. On May 16, 2018, the Nancy public prosecutor’s office opened a judicial investigation, and indicted him four years later, on November 16, 2022. But the latter, denying the facts outright, decided to appeal. On March 14, 2024, the courts rejected his request, placing him under definitive investigation.
Eddy Guyot denies the charges against him
Thus, Eddy Guyot – whose wife had also reacted to the affair at the time – is under the threat of a trial. According to BFMTV, in a article published on March 28, 2024, the investigating judge “has the possibility of issuing or not an order referring the man to a court”. If Candide Renard is “still so determined to obtain justice”, according to his lawyer Me Léon Del Forno, Eddy Guyot still disputes the facts. Since the beginning of the accusations, the former candidate of Koh Lanta says he is innocent. “Every night, I slept between a man and the wall of the cabin. Candide was further away. When the cameramen came back in the night to film us, I woke up and Candide was half on top of me. It was filmed and it completely exonerates me.”he explained to our colleagues from TV Star, in 2018. But according to the story of Candide Renard, Eddy Guyot would have indeed sexually assaulted her at the camp. Koh Lanta. The candidate allegedly kissed her and put his hands under her clothes while she was asleep. Very quickly, the young sportswoman would have warned the production using a walkie-talkie made available to the candidates in the event of a problem. Filming was then stopped.