The cheating episode seems far from over. While Ugo, Laurent and Claude will face each other this Tuesday on the terrible test of the posts, the suspicions of illegal dinners revealed by The Parisian could hover over the final of Koh Lanta. According to TVMag this Saturday, candidates would have been photographed during one of these nocturnal escapades to satiate.
As the article specifies, this photograph would not have been “taken without their knowledge but on the initiative of one of the candidates”. “Initially confidential, this cliché ended up leaking and turns from smartphone to smartphone. Until it gets into the hands of the production, ”it is written, adding that the production company declined to comment.
An investigation is underway
Always according to TVMag, the production company ALP and TF1 would consider potential sanctions in the event of proven cheating, such as not designating a winner in the final or not handing over the sum of 100,000 euros. The newspaper affirms that “this affair would not concern only the four or five adventurers who made the wall but also those which remained on the spot. In a spirit of camaraderie or simply to remain silent, the fugitives sometimes brought them back some food after their nocturnal escapade ”.
As revealed The Parisian a few days ago, four to five candidates would have taken advantage of the particular organization that the filming of the councils requires to be satisfied in a boarding house. Revelations taken very seriously by ALP, which is conducting “a survey of the adventurers present on the set but also in Polynesia with the locals”, explained the production company on Wednesday.
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“We have had echoes ourselves, we are investigating ourselves and, since [Le Parisien] does not display any formal proof either, we do not yet have any formal proof, indicated for her part Alexia Laroche-Joubert, producer of the show, at 20 Minutes. Currently, I am not likely to say really and in full what happened, who was involved, if it is true… “However, one thing is certain: all the adventurers who have been summoned by the production” refute the accusations. “