The last season of Koh Lanta, baptized The legend and celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the TF1 game, ended without a winner in December 2021. Laurent and Claude were the two finalists, but due to cheating during filming, the production took the decision to invalidate the votes of the members of the final jury. And while the final was being recorded in Paris, the images from the next edition of Koh Lanta were already boxed. Each year, many of them try to join the cast of the adventure game. And it’s not just anonymous people who try their luck!
After Hugo Philip, model and husband of former reality TV candidate Caroline Receveur, here is another personality who is trying his luck. It is Gérald Genty, pop singer with a piquant humor. In 2014, Benoit Poelvoorde participates in his album Eternal merry-go-round and it happened a place in the Guinness Book of Records. In 2015, he became the world record holder for the most concerts in 12 hours: 37 concerts performed in Brussels! But despite his talent, the success did not live up to his expectations. With our colleagues from The Dispatch, he says he sent his application for a very specific reason. “To succeed in reaching a large audience, you have to go on TV, he believes. You have to be on the sets of the big talk shows… which require you to have experience of talk show shows! Ultimately, I signed up for Koh Lanta – yes, yes, I am completely serious!“
Impossible for the moment to know if Gérald Genty will fly away for the filming of the next season of Koh Lanta with Denis Brogniart and a few other Robinson apprentices. Indeed, the 47-year-old artist does not give more clues about the casting stages past or not. So while waiting to see him, perhaps, surpass himself in sporting events and go crab fishing, Gérald Genty is making himself known, guitar in hand. This Tuesday, January 15, 2022, he is performing at the Détours de chant festival in Toulouse. The opportunity for the singer to present the titles of his next album recorded last March. “We have chosen for this disc to highlight the musicians and to extend certain themes already present on my previous album, up there : hospital, biology, sport… A song is called Let’s walk on mars – these are people in intensive care and the month of March, when the pandemic began, not the planet“, he indicates.
A personality who will be heard on Koh Lanta, for sure !