Seven years after its last broadcast, M6 has decided to relaunch the survival show The Islandwith a five-star cast. During the first episode broadcast this Tuesday, January 7, 2025, the businessman and antiques dealer, Julien Cohen, was lynched on the Web in the first ordeal because of his selfishness.
An adventurer’s soul, but above all a great loner. Tuesday January 7, 2025, on M6, the long-awaited first episode of the survival show The Island was broadcast, six years after its last broadcast. For the big return of reality TV, the channel and the production company Endemol saw things big. Indeed, the survival experience, lasting ten days, has the ultimate objective of crossing the Thai jungle to a very specific extraction point.
For this new edition, Mike Horn has given way to the adventurer Loury Lag, whose real name is Lagardère. The latter was chosen for his side “survival purist”explained Jean Louis Blot, director of Endemolin a press conference to promote the show. French speaker, director and author, he has built a solid reputation as an extreme traveler, having traveled to 45 countries, including a grueling passage through the ice floes and other very hostile areas of the globe.
“He will quickly stuff me”: Julien Cohen is not unanimous on the Web
M6 has relied on a five-star cast from various backgrounds for this new edition. Among the candidates of The Island, French viewers were able to find the ex-football star Sidney Govou, the world athletics champion Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, the MMA fighter and ex-Koh-Lanta adventurer Lucie Bertaud, the actors Terence Telle,Here it all begins and Patrick Puydebat, seen in Helene and the boysthe sports journalist Carine Galli, the ex-Miss France Delphine Wespiser and Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut, the influencer Daniela Capone and the second-hand dealer Julien Cohen, who passed by Deal done. And the latter also caused a lot of reaction from Internet users during the first episode of the reality show.
Indeed, during the first test of the show, which consists, for all the candidates, of swimming from their boat towards the Thai island where they will spend the next ten days, the businessman and antiques dealer stands apart. While Sidney Govou’s shoes came off in the water, Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut tried as best she could to reassure her teammate. However, Julien Cohen did not calculate his counterparts and rushed to arrive first on the beach. An objective achieved, but strongly criticized by viewers on social networks.
“Julien Cohen wants cohesion even though he left all his teammates at sea to get by while he was already on the beach! He will quickly stuff me,”“He, Julien Cohen, sold his soul to the devil”, “Julien Cohen I can’t do it anymore. The guy is acting like a boss, he doesn’t give a damn”was it possible to read on X during the first test of The Island. The second-hand dealer will have to try to put aside his competitive spirit.
