While the edition All Stars of Koh Lanta will soon come to an end, Denis Brogniart delivered himself to the readers of the newspaper The Parisian, this Saturday, December 4, 2021. He mentioned the adventure program of TF1 – recently marked by a case of cheating hitherto unprecedented in the history of the game – and, in particular, the season canceled in 2018.
While a reader asked him for news of the affair around Candide Renard, a participant of season 19 – The War of the Chiefs – who accused Eddy Guyot of attempted sexual assault on the camp, the host said he did not “no idea“where is the work of justice. Denis Brogniart adds however:”What I can say is that, given what we had as information at the time, it was important to stop the show. Then it is in the hands of justice. It absolutely does not concern me anymore. I have no contact with Candide nor with his supposed aggressor. “
The host’s remarks therefore suggest that the production was sufficiently worried following the accusations of the young woman to take the drastic and difficult decision, in particular from a financial point of view, to stop filming; BFM Business had mentioned a loss of 11 million euros! Alexia Laroche-Joubert (president of the company Adventure Line Productions) had confided to Puremedia that production would suffer the consequences by falling into the red. But in the face of the supposed gravity of the situation, there was obviously no other choice to be made.
In February 2020, on France Info, the producer had specified that the case was still ongoing. As for Eddy Guyot, who remains presumed innocent of the charges until the final judgment of this case, he has always denied the accusations of Candide.
After this canceled shoot, the candidates repatriated to France had ended up discovering the cause of this sudden stop. “It was a real shock. Everything was complicated. Fortunately, the production has set up a 24-hour psychological follow-up. It feels good to be able to talk about it, to be supported“, had detailed Pholien, candidate of this canceled season with the Parisian.