The landscapes change, the mechanics disrupt the candidates’ plans, but he remains faithful to the position. For more than twenty years, Denis Brogniart has played “Koh-Lanta” with passion and loyalty on TF1. He knows all the tricks, always leaving “with great enthusiasm” on the sets of the survival game. On the occasion of the channel’s fifty years, soon to be celebrated with great fanfare, the host gave a long interview to the media “Brut” to reveal some behind the scenes of the game which revealed Claude Dartois, Clémence Castel and even Moundir . He was notably questioned by our colleagues about some of his expressions which have become cult over time. This is particularly the case with his famous line “the sentence is irrevocable” pronounced at the end of each eliminatory board. A formula for which he had initially expressed reservations.
“Not in favor” of an essential formula of advice from “Koh Lanta”
“The famous sentence is irrevocable (…) I speak about it with all the more distance and discernment, as I was initially not in favor of it“, he explains. It was in fact the channel’s teams who suggested the idea of making it a recurring gimmick. “The manager of ‘Koh-Lanta’ at TF1 told me: ‘You know, we have to charter the thing.’ As in the United States, Jeff Probst, the American host, had very structured, very organized sentences that kept coming back, told the one who finally resigned himself to uttering this sentence when extinguishing the torch of the candidate eliminated from the fifth season.
-“I very rarely said “Ah!”
Another gimmick that has entered the memory of aficionados of the program, and derided on social networks, is the famous “Ah!”. Here again, this exclamation was not part of Denis Brogniart’s habits, as the person concerned indicated during this exchange. “There are plenty of people who think it was a gimmick I created, or that it was a language habit, but not at all! I didn’t have that way of speaking at all, I very rarely said Ah!“, he specifies, with a broad smile. We have to go back to the tenth adventure of the castaways to find the trace of this interjection. “(A candidate) told me that their team was short of men to build a cabin“, recalls the great sportsman. The editing then helped build the legend of this “Ah!”: “And here I say something like ‘Ah good because women don’t know…’ and I say this famous ‘Ah!’ and it has been seen tens of millions of times“From now on, the host uses and – sometimes abuses” this tic passed down to posterity, as he readily admits. “It’s true that now I play it, that is to say that in the voice-overs of Koh-Lanta, I say it sometimes, but that’s ultimately what this Internet user made as a clip, who caused this form of little habit in me.
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