Candice, candidate from Koh Lanta, secret weapons.
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Candice, a 24-year-old Nigerian, was eliminated after the advice of the fourth episode of
Koh-Lanta
broadcast Friday on TF1.
The survival instructor had trusted her teammates Laure and Maxine who actually devised a strategy to ensure that she was eliminated.
“It's not in my values and I would have been unable to do that.
But if everyone feels in agreement with that and sleeps soundly: so much the better, ”reacts Candice to
20 Minutes
.
The knife stuck in the back was not one of the “secret weapons” imagined by the production for this new season of
Koh-Lanta
.
This did not prevent Maxine and Laure from playing it to the detriment of Candice, in the fourth episode broadcast Friday on TF1.
And it was not pretty to see.
The 24-year-old survival instructor from the Loire, sidelined by her entire team, that of the Reds, thought she had reversed the trend and won the trust of her two teammates.
She did not hesitate to reveal to them that she had just found an immunity collar.
However, the sports journalist and the farmer did not content themselves with throwing the information to others, they made sure that Candice did not feel in danger at the council and that she did not take out the famous necklace.
“I hesitated until the end!
It was a big case of conscience ”, confides to
20 Minutes
the young woman who left with the jewel synonymous with immunity in her backpack.
The word "treason", used by Denis Brogniart, is the most appropriate to evoke your elimination?
We have to recontextualize things, it's still a game. Strategy is an integral part of the adventure.
After that, it does not correspond so much to my values and my way of seeing things that I actually experienced it as a betrayal.
Laure and Maxine lied to me so much, eye to eye ...
Looking back, if you could go back in time and express yourself again in front of your teammates who eliminated you, what would you say to them - and especially to Maxine and Laure?
I think I would say the same thing again.
In itself, well done for their strategy, they played very well.
As I said, it is not in my values and I would have been unable to do that.
But if everyone feels okay with it and sleeps soundly, so much the better.
I find that I did not deserve to be eliminated considering my investment on the camp, of what I tried to bring on the tests and company.
Coming from a team that I helped to build in part, it was a little bit upsetting and hurtful.
Since the end of the shoot, have you been able to explain yourself with Maxine and Laure?
For the moment, we have not had the opportunity to meet face to face given the health context.
I wait to have them in front of me to talk about it.
I'm not in open war mode at all, on the contrary, the water has flowed a bit under the bridges, it's still a game. But it's true that it would be nice to be able to talk about it like that.
With Laure, we have already discussed it a little bit by phone.
Several members of the Red Team had harsh words towards you.
You were considered "intrusive" and "intrusive" and at the same time you were criticized for not being present enough.
What does this mean to you?
You quoted Laure's words during the council.
It is true that, coming from her, I did not understand at all because the same day, she told me that I was too withdrawn, that I should have imposed myself more.
Even Maxine said it in the previous episode.
So I did not find this justified.
Weren't you tempted, at the last moment, to take out your immunity collar?
I hesitated until the end!
It was a big case of conscience.
I thought if I played it and there was no voice against me, I would shoot myself in the foot again.
And then, I really wanted to have confidence in my team, in the alliance that I thought I had forged with Maxine and Laure.
I suggested that we share my necklace to go as far as possible together.
You are an expert in survival and did not fail to give advice on the camp.
Do you think you've hurt male pride?
I don't think it's a matter of hurting pride but more of a kind of frustration.
I arrived, I found myself boss, I was the youngest, the blonde, so I said to myself that I had to find a way to make myself legitimate.
In this case, by bringing my knowledge of survival.
Except that, unfortunately or fortunately, the boys had a good level of survival, at least they had learned a lot before leaving on what they could do, they had watched a lot of tutorials.
The fact that I arrived by bringing them something key in hand, by explaining to them that we can do like this for the fire and like that for the shelter, that frustrated them.
But I didn't make them do what I told them, it was just advice.
We must not forget that, in the collective unconscious, survival remains a very masculine environment.
We think of Mike Horn, Bear Grylls or, on
Koh-Lanta
, of Teheiura or Freddy… It is never the names of girls that stand out.
It is a little complicated to be taken for someone legitimate when you are the youngest and when in the collective unconscious you exercise an activity usually reserved, or rather more intended, for men.
You have therefore paid the price for a sexist attitude ...
I don't want to condemn them like that.
I think it was mostly misunderstanding.
I don't want to call them sexist, that's a very strong word.
Frédéric, on social networks, is described as sexist, but it turns out that he is now one of the people I have come closest to.
He's a guy with extra values.
I don't want to give them that image.
Without saying that they are misogynists at heart, there are sexist biases that we are not necessarily aware of.
What you're talking about, the fact that survival in the collective unconscious is boys' business, is part of it.
You say that you tried to demonstrate your legitimacy to be a chef, would you say that Hervé, who was also a chef, asked himself so many questions?
He is used to it, he is a business manager, he is older, he has more experience.
For him, it may be more natural than for me.
I put a lot of pressure on myself from the start, maybe too much (laughs).
After her elimination, Marie told us "Candice is too human, she does not see the evil in people".
You confirm ?
I think it is rather justified.
It's in my character: I want to see the best in everyone.
I knew you had to be wary in
Koh-Lanta
, but I thought it was a bit early for that.
We were as a team, in the early days of the adventure.
I wanted to give everyone a chance.
So I should have been more suspicious - this is something I also see in everyday life.
If you are asked to participate in "Koh-Lanta" again, will you pack your bags immediately?
Obviously.
I had not come to do survival, that was just an asset, but for the sporting challenge and the human adventure.
I was looking forward to doing individual events with great anticipation.
I'm very competitive, so not having been able to taste that is a huge frustration.
I was deprived of that.
I have a huge desire to take my revenge whether in
Koh-Lanta
or in personal challenges.
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