“I realize a dream a little more every day”

“I realize a dream a little more every day,” confides Cécile, Pilates teacher in Pusey. At 42, the Haut-Saônoise was finally able to live her Koh Lanta adventure. And this season of the show, titled “The Cursed Tribe,” has been doing quite well for him so far.

In the show broadcast on Tuesday, November 19, she reached the final after a neck-and-neck victory against Sophie on a logic test. “I was extremely relieved to continue. We were blindfolded and had to run along a rope. At the end were boards of different sizes. It was necessary to memorize the notches of the boards and put them back into the construction. I didn't understand why Denis Brogniart didn't validate my construction. Fortunately, right at the end I realized that the edges were not the same. It was a very close call,” says the candidate.

“This careless mistake almost cost me dearly”

“Logic and implementation games are my hobby, but this careless mistake almost cost me dearly. » The Franc-Comtoise qualified alongside Charlotte, Thibault, Jacques and Ilyesse. In this Tuesday evening's show, during the orienteering event, she will face them for a place on the poles, the final event of Koh Lanta.

“Searching while being in nature is a total blast for me”

Cécile was impatiently awaiting the orientation. “For me, if there was one single event that I wanted to experience, it was this one. Searching while being in nature is a total blast for me. I am used to going mushroom hunting in Haute-Saône,” confides the woman who knows she is rather methodical and calm.

“I really enjoyed it”

Overall, the Haut-Saônoise had this experience quite well. “I know I am perseverant,” she says. “On the survival part, I didn't expect to experience hunger and lack of sleep so well. Even when I felt my batteries were flat, I said to myself: “You're here, so you have no right to complain”. I really enjoyed it.”

If she had gone to win and not to make friends, “the affect won out,” she analyzes. “I went there mainly for the sporting side and to win. But above all it is an enormous human adventure. » If she manages to qualify in this Tuesday evening's show, she will access, with two other finalists, to the last and legendary pole test.

Since her return at the end of May, she has been able to reunite with her partner and her two daughters, to whom she had confided that she had gone on a humanitarian mission. “I often go on missions, so it was entirely possible,” says Cécile, who had chosen not to tell them that she was going to participate in Koh Lanta.

Orienteering test (first part of the final) of Koh Lanta (first part of the final), this Tuesday, November 26 at 9:10 p.m. on TF1.