For several seasons, “Koh-Lanta”
candidates
have regularly been the target of hateful comments. While the 25th edition, called “The Immunity Hunters”, is in full swing on TF1, David gave a rant on Instagram. Indeed, the 36-year-old butcher-delicatessen in Bas-Rhin deplored receiving threatening messages. Worse, according to him, some Internet users also attacked his wife and their three children.
“You have the right not to like me, you have the right to find me worthless in tests, you have the right to criticize me! On the other hand... You have no right to attack my children, you have no right to insult my wife in private️
,” David wrote. The candidate, a member of the red team, the Matukad, wanted to put into context a sentence he said during his phone call to his family
. “
‘I’m going to be cooler with you’
on the call just meant that my career wouldn’t come first, that I would be around a lot more, not that I would stop picking on my family
,” -he clarified.
“It’s a shame to have to justify ourselves, but that’s going too far…”
David, candidate for “Koh-Lanta: the immunity hunters” on TF1
“Behind a screen it’s easy and cowardly to be mean and judge. It's a game, the images don't reflect my true personality. I sincerely appreciate each candidate, and no one is offended by my “rants”...
, he then assured.
So why are you making tons of them? In the heat, with the lack of food, the lack of sleep and especially the lack of loved ones, how would you react? No one knows ! But I invite you to register for the next casting to find out..."
, he added before concluding:
"And you know what? I realized my dream, it's reunification and I'm still here, even if you don't like it! It's a shame to have to justify it, but that's going too far..."
Faced with the rise in hate messages, the production company of the TF1 adventure game does not hesitate to regularly publish press releases to denounce
“this type of behavior”
. In addition, ALP and TF1 have set up support for candidates.
“There is a lot of psychological preparation work and awareness of the impact of notoriety and what will result from it on social networks
,” producer Alexia Laroche-Joubert explained to us a year ago. .
Thus, at the end of filming, all the adventurers are welcomed at the airport and taken directly to the TF1 premises
“to brief them on their return to real life and on everything that will happen during the broadcast of the show
,” assured Rémi Faure, director of streaming programs for the TF1 group. Before each episode airs, they are called.
“We explain to them what is shown and we pinpoint what could possibly trigger knee-jerk reactions. We describe to them everything that is going to happen so they are prepared. And they are followed throughout the entire season and even after
,” added Alexia Laroche-Joubert.
Finally, TF1 provides candidates with software.
“It’s a solution to protect their accounts. A system called Bodyguard and which destroys messages from haters and negative comments before they are even read. We don’t impose it on them but they have the possibility of using it
,” explained Rémi Faure. If, despite everything, certain messages get through, ALP supports adventurers wishing to file a complaint.
“We explain the whole process to them because we cannot, as a legal person, take legal action. It is a decision on the one hand intimate and on the other hand personal. On the other hand, we do not hesitate to make reports to the prosecutor
,” underlined Alexia Laroche Joubert.