After leaving his “baby” to Raphaël de Casabianca in 2018, Frédéric Lopez returns with an unprecedented episode of “Rendezvous in unknown land” This Tuesday, April 29, 2025 on France 2. An episode in which the presenter embeds Kendji Girac in his luggage, in Kenya.
The singer and the host were able to go and meet the Turkana people. If it only remains for a few hours to wait for viewers, Frédéric Lopez still agreed to reveal some secrets of the future episode, and behind the scenes of the shooting, this Tuesday morning on the set of “Télématin”.
Frédéric Lopez facing the discomfort of a member of his team
Indeed, in the morning presented by Flavie Flament and Julien Arnaud, the 58 -year -old host dropped a lot of information and in particular on the discomfort with which a member of his team was the victim after a hike.
“In filming, I remain on the lookout and attentive to the needs of the guests”he said at first, before continuing: “I went up to the top of the mountains … But, there, it was still a little weird”. According to Frédéric Lopez, the temperature in Kenya would have a lot of handicapped him and his teams.
“He was doing fifty degrees. We had walked in the middle of the day, what they, the Turkana, never do”he recalls again. And what had to happen, happened: “I see Olivier Ronval, my sound door, falling into apples. In terms of conditions, it was terrible”. It remains to be seen whether this incident will be unveiled during the episode broadcast this Tuesday evening on France 2.
-Kendji Girac was not afraid of anything … or almost
On the side of Kendji Girac, the singer has already mentioned some memories of the shooting during an interview with TV magazine. During the interview, he returned to certain difficult conditions as when he had to fall asleep “On a cow skin” : “It terrorized me”.
However, he played the game and would have accepted all the challenges offered to him. This is in any case what the guest of Frédéric Lopez assured in the anniversary episode of “Rendezvous in unknown land”.
“In the end, I just avoided drinking blood. When she offered me, I said no thank you”he assured with our colleagues. Viewers will be able to know, in a few hours, if it is really the only refusal on the part of the singer, during his stay in Kenya.
