An impossible decision. Arriving in sixth and last position in the second stage of “Pékin Express: L’épopée des Maharadjas”, broadcast this Saturday, September 21, 2024 on M6, Nathalie and Angie chose not without difficulty, in Jaipur (India), the pair of candidates against whom they would a few moments later compete in the final duel. After a difficult race punctuated by the infernal roulette, the funny ladies had to decide between Fabrice and Briac, Clément and Émeline, Rose-Marie and Cinzia and Jean-Claude and Axel. Only Christophe and Claire, who won both the immunity test and the stage victory, qualified automatically for stage 3.
“Angie, I know it’s not your fault.”
When the time came to make the decision and face the stakes, Angie, in tears, cracked under the pressure.In fact, we did not agree.“, summed up Nathalie, who “decided as an older person“to assume his choice for two.”There were two pairs that I absolutely did not want to see in the final duel.“, Nathalie continued. “On the one hand, it was Fabrice and Briac, who helped us during the previous stage by giving us the white flag. Then, there is Clément and Émeline, who were part of our season 17.“
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Between Rose-Marie and Cinzia and Jean-Claude and Alex, Nathalie chose the grandfather and his grandson.Angie, I know it’s not your fault. We love you, stay the way you are and I hope we see you outside again.“, Axel immediately said in order to comfort his opponent, in tears and unable to utter a single word.
“This moment is hard for me to live through. Of course, JC and Axel are not people I have known for a long time but they have hearts of gold. They take it as if it were relentlessness“, Angie analyzed afterwards in an interview. Axel is in fact playing his second final duel in two stages, the 6th in his history at “Pékin Express”. “I find it unfair but there is nothing we can do.” Angie finally agreed before regaining her senses and charging off for the final duel. Puremedias invites you to watch the sequence.
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“I want to find Grandpa and scream”
“Now I want to win, I want to show that they were wrong, that they should never have chosen us. I want to find Papi and scream, we have to eliminate them for that“, gave himself courage, Axel, who fulfilled his wish by completing the evening mission first. Nathalie and Angie thus join Hoang and Quyen, defeated at the end of stage 1, in the list of candidates eliminated from “Pékin Express”.
On Saturday, September 14, 2024, the launch of season 19 of the program presented by Stéphane Rotenberg had won over 1.36 million viewers between 9:14 p.m. and 10:05 p.m., or 7.5% of the audience. The second, offered between 10:12 p.m. and 11:33 p.m., had retained the attention of 972,000 viewers (7.3% of 4+). On targets, M6 is pleased with a “good start” with the family audience with audience shares of 19% for Women responsible for purchases aged under 50 and for 25-49 year-olds.
