Monday September 5, 2022, W9 kicked off its new reality TV show The Fifty. Thus, viewers were able to discover the 50 candidates who made up this great game…well, almost. One of them was indeed cut during editing and explained why.
Since the beginning of the adventure, the public can follow the adventures of Amélie Neten, Jessica Errero and her partner Fanny, Julien Bert or Simon Castaldi and his dear and tender Adixia. But one face is missing, it’s about Christophe Dicranian. However, the husband of Liam Di Benedetto was indeed at the side of the woman he loves during the filming which took place at the castle of Bertichères (in Chaumont-en-Vexin, in the Oise). But he was cut during editing because of his criminal past as he confided to our colleagues from TV Magazine.
Remember that the 41-year-old restaurateur was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2007 for drug trafficking. He was released in 2011 and again had to deal with justice in September 2016. A past that he assumes. “I had a first conviction during adolescence for a minor offense. (…) I havei had several convictions and i have been heard from by the police several times in recent years. In 2007, I was convicted of a drug offense“, he confided. But the production would not have checked his criminal record before hiring him. It was when his participation was announced at the beginning of July that he learned of his setbacks with the comments of the public on social networks. And it was only last week that she announced to Christophe Dicranian that he would not appear in the program. “I was warned last Friday that I was going to be cut on editing because of my criminal record“, he specified. And to regret not having been able to show who he was in The Fiftybecause he is not a bad person.
“It’s not so much the CV that counts in this story, it’s more the number of subscribers on social networks. If Liam and I had had a million subscribers each, I’m sure we wouldn’t have been cut in the edit.. You shouldn’t define someone by that. Regardless of criminal record, I was far from the only one in this cast who didn’t have a clean record“, he was indignant in conclusion. Contacted by TV Magazine on September 7, W9 and Banijay have yet to respond.