M6 kicked off the 20th edition of Beijing Express, toured in Africa, with 10 pairs including some celebrities, others unknown. One of the candidates particularly moved viewers by telling his story on camera.
Head to Africa with M6 ! Just weeks after she aired the finale of France has incredible talentthe television channel is relaunching two programs that have become cult over the years. Last Monday, it was Karine Le Marchand who shined the spotlight on the first portraits of farmers from Love is in the meadowsome of which have received more attention than others. Viewers were attentive to the journey of Mathieu, a young man for whom everything is to be written on a sentimental level and hit hard by a heart attack which almost cost him his life. They were also receptive to Antoine, especially because of a technical incident that occurred during filming and which was not cut during editing!
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At the same time, and while TF1 is preparing to kick off new editions of Dancing with the stars et The Voicethe Six proposed on Thursday January 16 to discover the pairs who compete in season 20 of Beijing Express baptized The Route of the Legendary Tribesand always animated by Stéphane Rotenberg. The departure was given at the foot of Kilimanjaro and no less than four countries are on the program for this journey which promises to be rich in emotion: Tanzania, Mozambique, Lesotho and South Africa.
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The pair of strangers already in the viewfinder
The eclectic cast has already spotlighted the friends 30 years apart, Patricia et Adrienor even the inseparable Belgian cousins that are Matteo et Esmeraldathe influencer duo Amandine et Alisonor the father-daughter tandem from Franche-Comté. But they are the two lovers, Ludovic et Judithwho stood out from the outset during the first event. The couple won immunity, at the same time forcing them to a delicate task: giving the black flag to an opposing pair, which will force them to leave three minutes late during the next event. This decision was all the more difficult to make as the teams did not yet know each other and had not been able to judge each other’s real abilities.
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Judith immediately announced: “We absolutely cannot see ourselves attributing it to anyone, we have no justification. So we prefer to let chance do things”. “There are eight teams, so you count to eight, and I’ll stop you”replied her partner, with confidence. Which had the merit of provoking Ludovicone of the two members of the pair of strangers. “It’s for us, I’m telling you.”he said to his teammate Moâde. In the process, Ludovic continued in a more vehement tone: “I take it like this: ‘We are nice people, we are wonderful people, we do nothing wrong, we will give it away’. The problem, I say, was predefined before, so it doesn’t matter. is no longer called chance! The pair of strangers, in Beijing Expresshe is still targeted!“. He wasn’t wrong! The black flag returned to their hands…
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Ludovic pays a moving tribute to his mother
Viewers were moved by it and, on X (formerly Twitter), criticism is already coming. “It will annoy me if we focus on strangers again this season, it’s just not possible anymore”we can read among other comments from annoyed viewers. Others were touched by the portrait that was made of Ludovic, a 34-year-old accountant who had never explored the world beyond European borders. At the end of the day, when it was time to cook, he couldn’t help but have a thought for his mother. “I think of my mother there… She forged my determination and my character. I don’t necessarily have a lot of friends, she is always there for me”he said, arousing a form of attachment among fans of Beijing Express.
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Indeed, still on X we were able to note following this sequence: “Ludovic saddens me too much, he has a monotonous little life and the way he talks about his mother is so cute and he seems seriously sensitive, the little father”, “Ludovic who succeeded in his adventure because he will make his mother proud, it was magnificent”, “Ludovic who after an hour makes us cry like shit talking about his mother” or even “Ludovic pains me to say that he has no friends… and as he talks about his mother it’s so beautiful”. What if viewers had already found their favorite from this 20th edition?
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