“Direct, I said:
I ride for him
.
It was a sun this guy, he radiated ”.
Even before the dissemination of the portrait of Bertrand-Kamal, last Friday in "Koh-Lanta", Julie, 40, resident of Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes), had fallen for the candidate.
Since the announcement of her disappearance Thursday morning, as a result of cancer, at the age of 31, this young quadra "only talks about that with her friends".
“He had a build, an original look, and a steel mind.
Seemed like a golden guy.
We felt that he was the pillar of his team, which despite two passages on the islet of exile,
(Editor's note: where the losers spend the night in difficult conditions)
twice won the immunity test ” , she greets.
VIDEO. Koh-Lanta: death of Bertrand-Kamal, adventurer of the 2020 season
1,100 kilometers away, in Marcq-en-Barœul, near Lille (Nord), we fell in love with Florence, a 47-year-old digital consultant.
This bubbly mother of a family never misses “Koh-Lanta” on Friday evening on TF 1, with her three children.
“Bertrand-Kamal was a bit of my favorite, the one who pulled Alexandra, her teammate from the Grand-Est region, at arm's length.
Last week, in a report, we saw his mother holding his hand, it was beautiful.
We felt he was very family.
He had a laughing look, a joy of living, he's the guy with whom you want to go for a drink, ”she breathes, shaken.
"He stood out, he seemed strong"
Like Mounia, 31 years old.
This administrative manager from Lourdes (Hautes-Pyrénées) learned of the death of the young thirty-something on Instagram on Thursday when he woke up.
She sent the information to a dozen friends.
“We always watch the show as a band, it's our evening.
I liked the good comrade side of Bertrand-Kamal.
He seemed to be a good person, ”slips the one who“ apprehends a little ”of seeing him again on TV.
"It's going to be super weird to see him on the show," opines Jonathan, 32-year-old Lyonnais.
“It's cruel and unfair, especially since we're about the same age.
An athlete who has the potato and dies like that, young, it speaks, necessarily… it will be almost embarrassing and hard to watch.
To see someone alive, in conditions where they cannot be more alive, to give their all, to resist the conditions of survival, and to know that at the end of the recording of such an adventure, cancer falls to them on the head, it hurts morale.
It will be sad every time he appears in the image, ”confides this boxing fan.
Fan of Koh-Lanta since always, he had immediately spotted Bertrand-Kamal.
“He had a rather atypical style, with his compound first name, his job as a host… We could clearly see him in a Club Med setting the mood!
Because we felt him driving his team, more united than the others.
He stood out, he seemed strong, ”he said.
"We will continue to watch"
His athletic abilities also impressed Farid, a 30-year-old Parisian, who learned of his disappearance when he woke up, with a "heartache".
Koh-Lanta is his meeting of the week, which he watches with friends.
“Seeing such a promising candidate, always with a smile, broke in his youth, it's tough.
It was for him that I supported the Eastern team, because he seemed to be a quiet and physical force, competent in the events, while being very positive and funny.
He invented little songs for his team ”, underlines this CrossFit practitioner.
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And no question for him to zap.
“It's going to be strange, but it's like when a great actor dies and we go see his movie.
Koh-Lanta remains a TV show with people we do not know personally, ”he proclaims.
Laetitia, 45, will have to "prepare" her children of 10 and 13 years old for the announcement of the disappearance of the candidate, with whom she watches the game every Friday, in their house in Garenne Colombes (Hauts-de- Seine).
“Bertrand-Kamal was touching.
His dad coached him.
And his team was patient and supportive.
We will continue to watch, ”she says.
Like Nicolas, 20 years old.
"Bertrand-Kamal I liked because on the first test, he had to carry a rope of 50 kilos and catch up with his opponents and he had been good", compliments the young Nantes student, communication student.
“There is a curse around Koh-Lanta, there has already been a death in the middle of filming, then the suicide of a doctor, and an alleged sexual assault… But I still love and I will continue to follow, with sadness and nostalgia.
I hope that Bertrand-Kamal will go as far as possible, to enter even more into the history of the game ”.