Last trip with Raphaël de Casabianca for France Télévisions viewers. This Tuesday, November 26, 2024, France 2 broadcasts the latest issue Meet in unknown land of the 44-year-old presenter. Together with Tomer Sisley, they flew to Nepal (a trip which actually took place in September 2022). Asked by Leisure TV (September 2 edition), a relative explained why Raphaël de Casabianca preferred to leave.
Increasingly difficult filming for Raphaël de Casabianca
For six beautiful years, he was at the head of Meet in unknown land (France 2) and Our unknown lands (France 3). He succeeded Frédéric Lopez, the creator of the program. But last June, the public learned that Raphaël de Casabianca wanted to give up his place. “For some time now, he had been hinting that he was going to have to slow down. The two shows represent four shoots per year. The pace is emotionally heavy. It takes time to recover from each trip. Besides, I thank him for these six years spent together. And then, with three children, managing family life and traveling, it became difficult for Raphaël“specified the presenter ofA Sunday in the countryside near Leisure TV.
Raphaël de Casabianca entrusted himself to the Parisian this Tuesday, November 26. He specified that he had been the victim of a “fatigue that came little by little“. “The more we filmed, the more I knew that I would not see the populations we met again. And I had more and more difficult to get back into normal life between each shoot“, he continued. They are “small health issues“who ended up persuading him to leave this beautiful but trying adventure.”I contracted leishmaniasis (a parasitic disease that causes skin lesions) after Ethiopia [avec Vianney, NDLR]”, he admitted.
Thus, Frédéric Lopez had to find a replacement for him. And it was Laury Thilleman who was asked to succeed him in Meet in unknown landto his greatest happiness. Quebec adventurer Samuel Ostiguy will take the reins of Our unknown lands.
