The day after the final without a winner, the cheating business continues to shake up Koh Lanta. Alexia Laroche-Joubert, producer of the show, agreed to react
at the microphone of Sud Radio this Thursday morning, starting with the decision not to designate a big winner for this edition. “No matter how much I confronted these people [qui auraient triché], they all denied. We are not an inquisition office, we are a television show. We did our job well, we investigated, we gathered a bundle of clues, we went to Polynesia and it turns out that we have irrefutable proof, ”she explains. Is this the photo that would have immortalized cheaters at a clandestine dinner?
Alexia Laroche-Joubert refuses to give this detail. She also disputes rumors that the production gave money to obtain this proof and to buy the silence of the Polynesians who provided food to the candidates. “We paid absolutely nothing,” she says. “We have a bundle of clues, we have recovered irrefutable proof, which is at the bailiff, so we have no problem. We are not responsible for anything in this story, we discovered it long after the shooting, ”she explains.
“There is a bunch of dishonest people who have not respected the code of honor”
As revealed by the producer, this new cheating affair was discovered during the broadcast of Teheiura’s confessions concerning the very first cheating affair (we must follow, yes): “The principle is that we call all the candidates to explain to them what is going to be in the program which will be broadcast the same evening so that they are not surprised. At that point, we started to have people who were like, “Maybe something else happened, we heard about …” A very weird thing. With that, we started to do our investigation. We confronted testimonies, we summoned adventurers to understand what had happened. And it turns out that last week we received some compelling proof. “
But why have you maintained the final despite this formal proof of cheating? To respect the viewers, the “other candidates who had done nothing” and all the teams of Koh Lanta, including “some who go away for up to 150 days away from their families”. “We will be very clear, there is a bunch of dishonest people who have not respected the code of honor and who yet know it perfectly”, she laments.
“I think we were worthy from start to finish”
Regarding the criticisms on the fact of having approached the cases of cheating only at the end of the final and in an evasive way, Alexia Laroche-Joubert does not regret this decision. “I think people surely expected that we will make the court public and media, but we will not go into that. I won’t say exactly what happened, I won’t name people, I’m committed to that. In any case, the people I have confronted refuse, so I am not here to denounce, ”she assumes, specifying that she is aware of the risks of lynching on social networks.
Finally, the hosts of Sud Radio also made him listen to remarks by Claude, recorded without his knowledge during a video of Laurent in full product placement. We hear: “It’s everyone’s fault. This is what people did not understand. It’s everyone’s fault: the candidates, the production… Everyone’s! Everyone at their own level has screwed up the shit ”. “Invite him and ask him what the fuck we screwed up,” reacts the producer. I think we were worthy from start to finish on something we fell victim to. “