It is never good for a “Koh-Lanta”
candidate
to display his strategic side.
If this mode of play is a virtue appreciated by Americans in “Survivor” in the United States, on the other hand the French often perceive overly playful adventurers as pests to be eliminated.
This is what happened to
Steve
in “Koh-Lanta, the immunity hunters”.
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From his first speeches to Denis Brogniart, the 34-year-old candidate openly expressed his vision of things.
From then on, his teammates on the Yellow team kept an eye on him, placing only limited trust in him.
Before going to the council, Steve found an immunity necklace protecting only two people of his choosing.
His strategy of showing him to everyone by saying that he would protect him was not convincing.
LE FIGARO. - Do you regret the way you approached this advice?
Steve.
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Absolutely not.
I tried a poker shot as if I had a pair of aces in my hands.
But the outcome was not favorable to me.
The collar I found didn't protect me and that's why I decided to show it to everyone.
Many people asked questions when they saw it and I managed to sow doubt.
When I said that I was calm at the start of the advice, it was to stay on my game. It was a bluff.
Wasn't it a mistake to show your strategic side?
No, I came to “Koh-Lanta” to play because that’s my state of mind.
I put both feet in, I played and I lost.
I started from the principle that the risk of being eliminated was one of the possibilities in the same way as that of winning the 100,000 euros.
I have no bitterness or grudges.
Why hasn't your alliance with Sarah and Alexis been further strengthened around this necklace?
I wanted to play like this individually.
By showing my necklace to everyone, I wanted to break my image as a strategist.
When I brought him out to the council by disclosing his true power, I wanted to protect Sébastien who was for me the most deserving candidate and Pauline to encourage him to believe in his potential.
“I spent hours turning over everything in the jungle to find an immunity necklace”
Steve, candidate for “Koh-Lanta, the immunity hunters”
Did you expect to receive votes against you despite your immunity collar?
Yes, I suspected that Nathalie and Pauline would go to your side because they were threatened with elimination.
At the camp, I felt the wind turning against me as the hours went by and that's why I stepped up my search for a necklace.
I spent hours turning everything over in the jungle.
It was one of my goals in “Koh-Lanta” to find a necklace and bring it back for my daughter.
You've been trying to cast for "Koh-Lanta" for fourteen years...
I made my dream come true by finally participating!
I signed up every year whenever the opportunity presented itself and my persistence was rewarded.
Being selected for the casting of “Koh-Lanta” is exceptional.
I don't consider myself to have finished last in this adventure, I finished 20th out of 38,000 people who sent their applications.
What do we think about during the truck ride with the nine other boys on the adventure?
I told myself that, for once, we weren't going to jump out of a boat!
(Laughs.) I remembered that an arrival by truck in “Koh-Lanta” had not happened since 2016. It was a moment when I realized that, that’s it, I was there.
It's a time when we measure each other and where I discovered big guys like Amri who I nicknamed "Iron Man's armor".