This Monday, September 9, Bastos was the guest of “Touche pas à mon poste” on C8. Facing Cyril Hanouna, the YouTuber denounced the presence of drugs in some of the reality TV shows produced by Banijay for W9, before assuring that the productions were sometimes complicit in these excesses. The day before, live on his Twitch channel (the video has since been posted on his YouTube channel), he had already made these same accusations against the “Apprentis champions”, broadcast from May 27 to July 26 on the M6 group channel.I participated in the filming of ‘The Apprentice Champions’ which I ended up leaving. One of the reasons was the presence of drugs”he explained to Cyril Hanouna and his band. Puremedias.com invites you to watch the sequence above.
“The producers turn a blind eye because otherwise less happens”
“Contestants brought drugs to this set and when they ran out, they asked production people to go get some from the city. At one point, the set was restocked, I witnessed it“, he also said.”I’m anti-drug and I’m anti-a lot of the things that happen on these sets. It’s a very unhealthy environment and I’m moving away from it now.“, he confides again.”It’s flooded with cocaine ‘The Fifty’he also added about the game filmed this summer in a castle in Oise, and currently broadcast on channel 9. Although he was not present on this shoot, he assures us that he received “echoes” many ““overflows” due to drug use behind the scenes. Having appeared on several reality TV shows since “Secret Story” in 2017, this is a common practice in the industry for him.Without this, there is no letting go. The productions turn a blind eye because, otherwise, less happens.“
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In a press release sent to our colleagues at “TV Mag”, the production company Bprod (belonging to Banijay) announced its intention to file a complaint for defamation against the influencer, whose real name is Bastien Grimal. : “For the past 48 hours, Mr Bastien Grimal, alias ‘Bastos’, has been making numerous defamatory statements against Bprod and its teams,” can we read in the press release. “To claim that the production would turn a blind eye to the taking of drugs by candidates on its sets and, even more seriously, that it would be complicit in it is false and mendacious. If such behavior were established, it would lead to immediate sanctions.“, adds the production company.
“These statements are unworthy and discredit our teams.”
“These statements are all the more unworthy as they discredit all of our teams on a subject that is serious enough that no slip-up will be tolerated.“, the text continues, before announcing legal proceedings.”This is why a criminal complaint for public defamation will be filed with the Senior Investigating Judge of the Paris Judicial Court so that Mr. Bastien Grimal is prosecuted and answers for his comments before the courts.“
