Colette Provencher would be ready to relive the “Take me out of here!” adventure. at any time. The hostess, eliminated from the game after Sunday night’s elimination challenge, left camp with her head held high and proud of having faced her fears in the Costa Rican jungle.
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Unfortunately, the TVA weather presenter had the less fortunate hand at the jungle gala. In the elimination challenge, she transferred fewer catfish from her pond to her tank than the other two campers she faced, Nathalie and Andréanne.
However, she returned home with a sense of accomplishment and pride at having surpassed herself. “I definitely learned something about myself. But there are things about me that I already knew. Living in a group is not a problem for me,” she said in an interview with the agency QMI.
The hostess comes from a large family to which she is very close. While she acknowledged that each individual’s personality could have been an issue at times, it was really the fear of sleeping in the roofless jungle at the mercy of the elements and the little beasts that lived there that bothered her the most. “The food rationing, the sleep rationing, the heat (40 degrees with humidity), it was the rainy season, we had torrential downpours at times, it was really difficult. And of course the whole history of bugs. We don’t have that here,” she said.
Upstream, Colette had worked to overcome her fear of mice just prior to her flight to Costa Rica, but nothing had prepared her for the surprises camp had in store for her.
“A much more difficult experience than what we see”
Filming “Get Me Out of Here!” was not easy, even if it was much harder for the campers to bear than what the broadcasts send back as an image, the host assured. “What we see on TV is very playful, but I remember there were very tight cuts in all of this,” she warned at first.
“We worked hard in the camp. Not one meal was easy, even if it was rice and beans. The cauldrons had to be washed with stones. It was so much moisture it was rusting all the time. We also had no hot water and the insects that invaded us at night; The doc got picked up and I got eaten and it shows I’m missing skin patches,” she continued.
A story about friendship
The adventure “Get me out of here!” was first and foremost a human adventure, specified Colette Provencher. “It’s hard for me to say who I was closest to at camp because we really were all together,” she said.
“In the beginning I didn’t really know anyone except Jean-François Mercier’s reputation and he was the one I discovered the most. He is a man of exceptional sensitivity and emotional intelligence. It was him who amazed me the most,” she said.
“Livia is the bubble in champagne, Marianne is a great person, a damn beautiful person, Rahmane, I adore her. I like this guy, it doesn’t make sense. Andréanne, who is more reserved but everything is there, who is very, very creative,” she added, specifying that the singer-songwriter is much more present in the group than what was shown on TV.
Colette Provencher will participate in the Boucherville Source Bleue Walk on Sunday May 7th. Walkers can register on the organization’s website: https://maisonsourcebleue.ca/fondation/activites-benefices/marche-source-bleue/marche-1/
The Get Me Out of Here! program is presented every Sunday at 6:30 p.m. on TVA.
“Get me out of here!” reached new heights
The reality show, Get Me Out of Here!, averages nearly 1.6 million viewers each week, not counting views on the TVA+ app.
The issue also stands out in terms of market share. This season it achieved almost 47% market share for all programs combined.