The former host ofAn almost perfect dinner returned to the controversy surrounding the expulsion of candidates fromDouble occupation for bullying on Wednesday.
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Following the withdrawal of three dissatisfied sponsors of the toxic climate in the house of the guys and undoubtedly wishing to stop the bleeding, the production ofOD Martinique decided on Wednesday to withdraw Philippe and Isaack from the adventure. As for Félix, who was also associated with this saga, he had already left the house during an elimination which has not yet been seen by fans ofOD. A real bomb on social media.
“In ten years of An almost perfect supper, I have understood a lot of things about human behavior”, declared on QUB radio, the former host, André Ducharme.
- Listen to his interview with Richard Martineau right here:
For him, the cast is very important in this kind of program, because of the duration of the shooting which is spread over several months.
“We are really in a type of people, the participants are roughly the same age, come from roughly the same background, he explained at the microphone of Richard Martineau. It’s a game of strategy, it’s not necessarily the smartest who will win and in life it’s a bit like that too.
He believes that although the participants should not be directed, they should nevertheless be restrained and set the limits of their “playing field”.
“There are people who in life are quite nice and then when the week begins they come out of the clutches that we did not suspect”, he also recalled.
“In real everyday life, there are no sponsors,” he remarked.
For the former host, reality TV evolves with the times and training against racism, non-verbal violence or even consent are part of this evolution.
“Even before this sponsor story, there must have been discussions with the broadcaster,” he said.
Recalling one episode in particular fromAn almost perfect dinner, he also cautions against production choices. “Participants had been aggressive towards a participant, then he had said things that, unfortunately, we could not broadcast,” he said. Later in the episodes, this same participant had been particularly rude to others. “The public didn’t understand, and that’s the person who came across as intimidating when he was a victim of bullying first.”
“Reality TV is a way of putting the real world on screen, rather than making fiction. But in fiction, it’s just cheap shots of people stabbing each other in the back and, in fiction, it’s okay.”