Régis and Coumba, outstanding candidates of Koh Lanta (TF1), have suffered several death threats and insults on social networks and have filed a complaint. Come to testify jointly on the set of Do not touch My TV on November 17th, both of them expressed their amazement when they received the hate messages from some viewers.
Father of a family living in a small village, Régis, who participated in Koh-Lanta, the island of heroes in 2020, explained that his whole family suffered from his notoriety. “I had haters who had taken down the store I was running at the time, on Google. I received threats of death, rape on my daughters who were 4 years old at the time, disgusting photo montages …“, confided the forties.
“For me, there were two periods: one when I didn’t exist, it made people laugh, and another, as soon as I brought out the favorites. There, I really took a lot. I received calls and messages from the credits“, he remembered on the set of TPMP. “My wife’s workplace fled and my son’s college too, they threatened to cut my throat: it went so far that it is the company ALP (which produces Koh-Lanta) who handled my phone calls “. An absolutely distressing situation.
“In 2012, when you came back from Koh Lanta, you got off at Orly and it was over. But now with social networks … “, noted Coumba, who participated four times in the game show and was the victim of insults for his last criticized participation in the adventure, his behavior on the island towards certain candidates like Clémence having been often criticized. The two adventurers recalled that some viewers quickly forget that cheap shots and ploys are an integral part of the show.
“We don’t want to play anymore after that. If we play, we will be frowned upon … People must understand that in Koh Lanta, we do not react as in everyday life. Me there, I was wild, I accept it but with sugar and rest, I know how to live in society “, confided Coumba, who laughs yellow in the face of these excesses. “In two or three years no one will want to play. We’re all going to sit on the beach and look at each other.”, predicts the candidate.