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05/01/2025 at 18:02
While “Fort Boyard” is preparing to celebrate its 35th birthday, an unprecedented episode is broadcast this May 1st. In a new interview, producer Alexia Laroche-Joubert returned to an emblematic decision: the definitive disappearance of the tigers of the game.
“Fort Boyard” blows his 35 candles. During all its years, the program has never stopped renewing itself: new characters, new trials and disappearance of mythical wild beasts who walked the fort. To celebrate this anniversary date, France 2 broadcasts an unprecedented episode of the game this May 1st. Among the participants, Alexia Laroche-Joubert producer of the show, will make her first.
Guest on the set of “ C to you “Monday, April 28, the CEO of Banijay raised the veil behind the scenes of this anniversary season, marked by the final absence of the program’s tigers. “It was very difficult. I took two years before making this decision. I had a big pressure and it was considered that it did not belong to the time, “she explained.
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Since 2022, the felines have been replaced by 3D reproductions. But for Alexia Laroche-Joubert no question of abandoning them, the producer wished to offer them a peaceful retirement. “” I wanted to make sure that we were not going to do as with the old intermittent workers and put them aside. We set up a fund to guarantee them the cottage, the cover and the veterinary care until the end of their days, “she said, confirming the support of the channel:” France Télévisions was impeccable on this. »»
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A commitment to animal welfare
Previously, the tigers resided two months on the fort before returning to Vendée, at the Puy du Fou park, where they lived year -round.
Cet engagement is reminiscent of that taken by producers of« Intervilles »which had deleted the cows in the name of animal welfare.
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