Do not participate in Koh Lanta wants ! First of all, Robinson apprentices must submit their application – with personal information, motivations and photos. Then, once this first step has been passed, several physical tests, but not only, are imposed. At the end of the tunnel, very few of them take off to an unknown land, in search of adventure. A few years ago, before becoming today’s famous influencer and model, Hugo Philip tried his luck … and was rejected at the last minute !
This Tuesday, January 4, 2022, in a story on Instagram, the husband of the superb Caroline Receveur, business woman revealed in Secret Story (season 2, in 2008), asks his subscribers to challenge him. A marathon, a figure skating choreography, a weekend with the survivor extreme Mike Horn or participate in Koh Lanta, such are the proposals. The opportunity for the charming brunette with the muscular figure to make some confidences on the day when he almost joined the cast of the famous survival game.
“Interesting anecdote … I was taken to participate in Koh Lanta in 2016 after multiple selection tests and physical and medical tests at INSEP. Two weeks before departure, I was called to tell me that my replacement was going in my place, he recalls. The prod ‘realized that they had also taken another model that I knew (we had worked together) and decided to replace us both. I had prepared myself, I had warned all my family … I was sickened.“A blow for Hugo Philip, dismissed like his colleague for obvious reasons: the friendship between the two men could have influenced the smooth running of the game.
Reunion with the Koh-Lanta prod ‘… on the DALS set
Three years after this failure, the dad of the adorable little Marlon (3 years old), born of his love with Caroline Receveur, was in the casting of another TF1 show in a completely different register. Indeed, he, with his partner Candice Pascal, made the show in Dance with the stars in 2019. “I found the people of the production of Koh Lanta later during my participation in DALS, they remembered me well and this story“, he confides.
Recall that in 2016, the front page broadcast two seasons of Koh Lanta. The baptized edition Thailand saw Wendy become the big winner, while it was Benoît who won Treasure Island. In another life, Hugo Philip could also have been the last survivor …