Amazement, amazement, amazement… No word is strong enough to describe what just happened on Tuesday evening in Koh Lanta. The sequence lasts six minutes, not a second longer. Six minutes, the time it takes for the hero image drawn by Teheiura for ten years to go up in smoke.
When Denis Brogniart treads the land of the island of the banished in the eleventh episode, it is not to start a new ordeal but to ask to speak aside with Teheiura. “We have learned, and we have had confirmation, that on several occasions you asked fishermen who were passing offshore for food. And that several times, we brought you food to the camp, ”explains the host solemnly.
“It will weigh on me all my life”
“I ate twice,” confirms the Polynesian. He says he suffered physically, more than on any of his adventures. The one who participated in Koh Lanta for the fifth time then had a moment of weakness: by waving to a fisherman, Teheiura crossed the line not to be exceeded and signed the final end of his course.
In tears, the candidate explains that “the temptation was too strong. “Faced with a Denis Brogniart who reminds him of his irreproachable behavior since he appeared on the show, Teheiura is vulnerable, such as we had never seen before. “Even I don’t understand myself at the time when I do that to him,” he says, mimicking the gesture he used to beg for food. I’m not even looking for excuses… ”
Teheiura excluded without further legal action
“I broke a rule that I accepted. That’s why it’s going to weigh on me for the rest of my life. What happened, my irreparable gesture at the time, will serve as a lesson ”, adds the adventurer, finalist of Raja Ampat in 2011.
Then came the time for the inevitable sanction. Since he adopted “an unfair behavior, which constitutes a breach of ethics” in the words of Denis Brogniart, Teheiura was excluded from the game by the production. The candidate was asked to leave the Island of the Outcast and go directly to the residence of the final jury. Like his eliminated comrades, he will therefore participate in the choice of the winner of the season. ” I accept [la sanction] because I admit having betrayed the law of Koh Lanta », Concludes Teheiura.
The bewilderment of Alexandra and Christelle
Teheiura is therefore ousted, so be it. But before taking his bag and finding those who have already been eliminated since reunification, the candidate faces Alexandra and Christelle, the two outcasts he was supposed to face in the hours that followed. When Denis Brogniart announces the facts to them, the two women take their heads in their hands as a sign of dismay. “I really fell from the clouds”, describes Alexandra, questioned by 20 minutes.
According to the winner of 4 Lands, hunger was difficult to manage throughout this season. “It was extremely hard. But really, ”she insists. Other than a few fish and octopus, the island didn’t offer much to eat. “I understand that we can crack when we are really at the end of the roll in terms of survival,” explains Alexandra. Afterwards, it’s a game with rules that we know. We are responsible and we must not violate them. “
A speech on Instagram
On his Instagram account, Teheiura wanted to explain. In his written speech, the Polynesian explains again that he was given food twice “on the same day”, specifying that for the second time, [il n’a] asked nothing. A gift that the candidate shared with other adventurers. He adds that nothing was planned in advance and that no member of his family came to his aid.
“In life, we all make mistakes. I made one. I preferred to recognize immediately and exit the game. Because yes, Koh Lanta is a game, recalls Teheiura. I apologize to the people who have always supported me. Hope this doesn’t erase the good times together. “
On social networks, the cast of The legend made the promise to support Teheiura in the face of the storm that awaits him. Their mission: to recall to what extent the one who has just put the final point on ten years of his life is above all a generous adventurer and a wise man.