This is the scandal that is shaking the TV planet at the moment. For several days, insistent rumors have been circulating on the Web. They claim that several well-known candidates for reality TV programs are, in addition to their activities on social networks, escort girls paid to keep company with wealthy men with sometimes dubious practices. Maïssane, ex-candidate of Marseilleshas also testified on the set of Do not touch My TVsaying that while proposals for agencies of this type of professions abounded in private messages, she had never heard or seen anyone indulging in this practice.
If he is no longer in the middle, Benjamin Castaldi still knows the backstage of reality TV quite well. Presenter of Secret Story for several years, the husband of Aurore Aleman revealed that cases of prostitution of this type were not a new fact: “We learned about deviance 2 or 3 years ago, but prostitution in reality TV, I can reveal something very strong to you, it’s that at the time of Secret Story, when we were casting, we had a code that we gave to the girls who did the castings, it was ‘Code Dubaï!‘”
Benjamin Castaldi did not go through four paths to explain the reasons for this vigilance: “We knew very well, for some of them, that their job was also to go on trips to Dubai to do this job as a call girl. I can even tell you something else. On the show, as it was filmed 24 hours a day, some candidates were talking, thinking they weren’t being filmed, and talking in a foreign language. We had it translated and we understood very quickly that their main job was to be a call girl..”
It is also for this reason that several figures of the program left the program before the end, claiming a false reason: “Some candidates decided to leave the program not because they were depressed, but because they had calculated that by staying 2 or 3 weeks with us, they lost a ton of sorrel. This file is a file known to the world of reality TV of my time. But indeed, the Paris-Dubai transhumance we are talking about today dates from Secret Story. (…) They were going to work a lot there. Today, I don’t know them, but if it existed 10 years ago, I don’t see why it would have disappeared today.”