Thunderbolt in Fort Boyard: a historic change in sight for the next season

Several cult characters have marked Fort Boyard since the launch of the show more than 30 years ago. Father Fouras, of course, but also Passe-partout, La Boule, Félindra, The Wrestler or even Chef Willy…Some of them still exist within the confines of the Fort, while others have left the premises. According to 20 minutes, yet another historic presence of the show will no longer be part of this summer, since the famous tigers will be removed from the program. “I feel that there is a fundamental societal movement that we must hear about the protection of large animals and especially felines“, explained Alexia Laroche-Joubert, the producer of the show. Thus, the production found a financial agreement with Thierry Le Portier, the breeder of the tigers who has collaborated with the show since the beginning, so that the latter can ensure the care of her felines until their natural death. For Alexia Laroche-Joubert, this is a gesture to the attention of viewers, since she specifies that nothing forced her to remove the tigers from Fort Boyard this summer.

Fort Boyard: this journalist who refused to participate in the tests with animals

” Barbara Pompili (the Minister for the Ecological Transition, editor’s note) has nothing to do with this decision, it is important to say soassured the producer. I didn’t have to retire the tigers until 2024 so we could have shot two more seasons. I only do this because I consider it an important move for our viewers to make.” Alexia Laroche-Joubert refers here to the bill adopted by Parliament end of 2021 which provides, in the context of the fight against animal abuse, to gradually ban wild animals in circuses. For several years now, the presence of tigers in Fort Boyard has aroused the disapproval of part of the public. During his participation in the show, the journalist Hugo Clément had meanwhile refused to do the tests involving animals.

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