Laurence Pizzocchia is a contestant from Koh-Lanta: Viêtnam and Koh-Lanta: La Nouvelle Édition.
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Styliste ongulaire indépendante dans un petit village du canton de Vaud, Laurence aime prendre soin de ses clientes comme d'elle même. Mais ne lui dites surtout pas à qu'elle est une petite blonde sympa, elle pourrait se mettre en colère! Elle veut montrer qu'elle est beaucoup plus que cela, et aller au-delà des clichés. Maman comblée de deux petits garçons et épouse amoureuse, la douce Laurence rêve pourtant de l'aventure Koh-Lanta pour mettre un peu de piment dans sa vie bien rangée et prouver de quoi elle est capable.
Profile retrieved from tf1.fr[2] Eliminée au 35ème jour d'aventure - Koh-Lanta 2010
Laurence a 37 ans et est monitrice de fitness à Lausanne en Suisse. Elle a 2 enfants. Laurence aime prendre soin de ses clientes comme d'elle-même. En participant à Koh-Lanta 2010, Laurence a voulu montrer qu'elle était beaucoup plus qu'une petite blonde sympa, et aller au-delà des clichés. Maman comblée de deux petits garçons, la douce Laurence rêvait pourtant de l'aventure Koh-Lanta pour mettre un peu de piment dans sa vie bien rangée et prouver de quoi elle était capable. Laurence revient pour la nouvelle édition de Koh-Lanta plus déterminée que jamais.Koh-Lanta[]
Viêtnam[]
Before the contestants even got on the boat, Denis Brogniart informed them that they would have to immediately decide upon two among them to not join the rest on the boat. Believing that this was an elimination, Véronique Bègue and Boris Deltell sacrificed themselves for the other contestants. The other sixteen contestants said their goodbyes and got on the boat, which was headed to an island where they would be divided into two tribes the next day. When swimming to this island from the boat, Alain Merdel almost drowned, but Claude Dartois saved him and helped him get to the island. As the contestants trekked towards the north side of the island, Virginie Mercadal Pioli cut her upper eyelid by bumping into a branch. That night, Vivien Escouflaire and Alain found the island's watering hole and the sixteen contestants settled in for the night. The next day, they finished their trek and Denis Brogniart revealed that the two tribes would be divided by gender. Thus, Laurence was assigned to the Vang tribe and they immediately competed against the Do tribe in their first Reward Challenge, which they won. The reward for the Vang tribe was three matches and, upon arriving at their camp, they succeeded in making fire. They also encountered Boris, who had arrived there the day before by helicopter and who would be their sole male tribemate instead of being eliminated. Virginie's eyelid was stitched up earlier at the first Reward Challenge and she was required to wear a bandage over her eye throughout the remainder of the first cycle and, in turn, couldn't participate in the first Immunity Challenge, which was in the water. This temporary handicap, along with her already strong personality, encouraged Virginie to be hyperactive around camp, which earned her the ire of some of her tribemates, especially Frédérique Brugiroux. On the other hand, Frédérique also had a strong personality and annoyed some of her tribemates by not contributing around camp that much and by being negative about not having more men in the tribe. Frédérique and Virginie clashed on a few occasions throughout the remainder of the cycle and, after the Vang tribe lost the first Immunity Challenge, the two made it clear to one another that they would be voting against each other at Tribal Council. With the rest of the tribe wanting to have more peace at camp and realizing that Virginie would be more of an asset to them than Frédérique, Frédérique was voted out unanimously at Tribal Council.
Early in the next cycle, the women of the Vang tribe initially followed Boris on his idea about building a quick shelter near a thicket, however, they realized that this wasn't a good idea and restarted construction of the shelter somewhere else. This, along with a few other strange ideas to improve the Vang tribe's camp life and a couple of unideal challenge performances, provoked the tribe's women to think that Boris might not be necessary for their survival in the game. The Vang tribe lost the second Reward Challenge, which notably upset Wafa El Mejjad who felt like she could've performed better. The next day, the Vang tribe won the second Immunity Challenge. Upon their victory, the Vang tribe was offered the right to exchange Boris for Véronique, however, they turned down this offer in spite of their prior concerns with Boris, agreeing that a good team should stay strong and stick together. Upon returning to camp, Virginie cooked periwinkles for her tribemates, however, they turned out burnt and the Vang tribe did not enjoy this meal. Virginie continued to work a lot throughout the cycle, but her mostly laidback tribemates felt that her efforts were becoming excessive and that she needed to slow down. With a few rats invading their camp, the Vang tribe had a mediocre start of the next cycle. Furthermore, they lost the third Reward Challenge, Blind Leading the Blind, against the Do tribe.
When the two tribes arrived for the third Immunity Challenge, Denis Brogniart surprised them with a sudden tribe switch. With two tribes being formed with an equal number of men and women in each, Laurence was selected by Jennifer Lieutaud to be one of the four women of her tribe. Jennifer's tribe won the third Immunity Challenge and they were given the right to select which camp to return to. Without hesitation, they chose to return to the Do camp, making them the second Do tribe. Philippe Duron, now one of the members of the second Vang tribe, was upset by this turn of events because he and his other three male tribemates were essentially forced to start fresh on a comparatively empty camp while relinquishing the results of their hard work to a mostly laidback second Do tribe. At the Do camp, the four newcomer women relished what was essentially a steep upgrade of their former camp while Boris became more comfortable due to now having three other males to socialize with. The next day, the men realized that they were doing most of the work around camp while the women tended to relax and sunbathe often throughout the day and it became evident that the votes may be based on gender lines should the second Do tribe ever go to Tribal Council. Though they were safe for the third cycle, Claude and Valentin D'Hoore were concerned that Abdellah Akriche might flip on them in the future due to his tendency to flirt with the tribe's women. Going into the next cycle, the Do tribe lost the fourth Reward Challenge, Memory. Abdellah openly claimed that the Vang tribe got lucky, but Jean-Pierre Pigato of the Vang tribe argued back that his own tribe simply had a better strategy. The next day, the Do tribe constructed their raft for the fourth Immunity Challenge and, though it was inferior to that of the Vang tribe, they won said challenge the day after because they made a strategic risk during the race that paid off.
The fifth Reward Challenge began on Day 13 and consisted of the tribes going on a trek to retrieve as many of their own plaques as possible, which would be returned to the starting line on Day 14. Before the challenge began, the two tribes competed in a mini-challenge to determine which of them would be assigned to the easier path. The Do tribe lost this mini-challenge and, in turn, was assigned to the tiger path, which was the more taxing of the two paths. On their way to their checkpoint where they would be staying for the night, the Do tribe worked in a cacophonous matter but managed to get themselves organized towards the end of the day. After a rough night at their checkpoint, the Do tribe headed back to the starting line and, after the Vang tribe had mistakenly retrieved a plaque designated for the Do tribe, both teams arrived with 18 plaques that counted. In order to break the tie, the two tribes competed in another mini-challenge, which the Vang tribe won. Returning to camp already disappointed, the Do tribe was displeased to discover that their fire was almost extinguished and that they were almost out of rice due to proportioning their rice incorrectly before. The next day, things took a positive turn for the Do tribe because Claude managed to catch many crabs for the tribe to eat and because they won the fifth Immunity Challenge. In spite of this, Jennifer developed a desire to quit the competition due to missing the comforts of life outside of the game and her loved ones. She followed through on this that evening, which caused her now former tribemates to think of her as selfish for her decision. In spite of their prior concerns about being down in numbers now that Jennifer was gone, the Do tribe woke up the next morning as if nothing happened. At the sixth Reward Challenge, Marine Plissonneau reentered the game after having been voted off the Vang tribe the cycle prior and joined the Do tribe in Jennifer's place. Feeling excited about Marine joining them because they felt that she was more beneficial to have than Jennifer, the Do tribe won the sixth Reward Challenge. Marine excitedly joined her new tribemates in returning to Do camp and rekindled her relationships with the tribe's women. She also was admired by the tribe's men for her past showings in challenges and for her work ethic around camp. The next day, the two tribes competed in the sixth Immunity Challenge, Buggin' Out, which was won by the Do tribe mostly due to Boris making a successful bluff regarding his chewing time. Going into the next cycle, Laurence began to increase her workload around camp slightly after observing Marine earn favour from the tribe's men for her efforts. Meanwhile, Wafa and Audrey Perez continued to be inactive around camp, which made Claude hope that his tribe would lose the upcoming Immunity Challenge in order to vote one of them off and to ensure the men a numerical advantage over the women going into the merge. The Do tribe quickly won the seventh Reward Challenge, which was for access to a cool bath along with chocolate and toiletries. Upon returning to camp from their reward, Wafa and Audrey talked about their cravings for delicious food at different points throughout the remainder of the day, which annoyed their tribemates, especially Laurence. After the Do tribe narrowly lost the seventh Immunity Challenge a couple of days later, the men, Laurence, and Marine strategized to blindsided one of either Wafa or Audrey by making them feel that Marine would be the target due to her status as the newest member of the tribe. At Tribal Council, Wafa and Audrey voted against Marine as the rest of the tribe had expected. Meanwhile, though Abdellah voted astray against Valentin, the rest of the voting bloc stuck to their plan and voted out Audrey as they felt she was weaker and more apathetic than Wafa.
The next morning, Claude approached Wafa and told her that he felt that Audrey was a bad influence on her and that was why she needed to go the night before. He also informed her that Abdellah had wanted the voting bloc to vote her out instead of Audrey because she would be a physical threat going into the merge. The eighth Reward Challenge was a Hero Challenge in which the winner would win a prime rib and fries reward for their tribe. Claude represented the Do tribe and won the challenge against Kunlé M'Babacéré Pakorona who represented the Vang tribe. After the challenge, Denis Brogniart announced that Claude and Kunlé would be the Ambassadors of their respective tribes and that the merge would be taking place the next day. Though the Do tribe enjoyed their reward, Valentin had burned his finger by accidentally touching a hot plate of fries resting over a grill. A medic arrived who determined that Valentin had sustained a third-degree burn and wrapped the finger in a thick bandage. Upon returning to camp, Claude consulted with each of his tribemates on who they would prefer he target at the Ambassadors' Meeting the next day. Though Boris informed Claude that he wouldn't mind being the Ambassadors' target because he felt fulfilled regarding his time spent in the game, Claude still intended to target a second Vang tribe member at the Ambassadors' Meeting, specifically Aurélie Gasser. In spite of this, at the Ambassadors' Meeting the next day, Kunlé informed Claude that he wanted for all of his tribemates to make it to the merge, considering that they were only four against Claude's tribe of seven, and that it would simply be better to eliminate someone who is ready to go. Claude ultimately agreed to this and the pair settled upon Boris, eliminating him from the game. After Claude and Kunlé returned to camp and broke the news, the merged tribe bid Boris a good farewell. In spite of this, Denis Brogniart and some of the contestants were somewhat disappointed in Boris as they felt that he had thrown in the towel. Later in the day, the medic present at the previous reward reexamined Valentin's burned finger and determined that Valentin needed to be temporarily evacuated from the game in order for his injury to be examined by a specialist. In Valentin's absence, Claude and Kunlé, having made a plan for a large merge alliance earlier at the Ambassadors' Meeting, recruited Véronique, Philippe, Wafa, and Laurence into their fold and informed them that they would be blindsiding Abdellah first at the next Tribal Council due to his challenge prowess. The next day, Claude won the first individual Immunity Challenge and he and his alliance determined that it would be better to work with Abdellah for the time being instead of targeting him. Therefore, at Tribal Council, Claude's alliance and Abdellah voted out Aurélie, who was the only remaining contestant to have never been on the Do tribe at any point, in a near-unanimous vote.
When Valentin was permanently evacuated and eliminated from the game on Day 24 after it was determined that Valentin's injury was too severe for him to return to the game at that time, Aurélie returned to the game in his place at the first individual Reward Challenge. Claude won said challenge and he was rewarded with a day tour of a Vietnamese city. While Claude was away, Aurélie approached Abdellah and Marine with a proposition to turn the tables on Claude. In turn, Abdellah approached Véronique and Laurence the next morning and tried to convince them to form a counter-alliance with himself, Aurélie, and Marine by arguing that Claude views them simply as sheep who would do his bidding for now and be easily slaughtered later. Though Véronique and Laurence were initially on board with this due to Claude's undiplomatic approach, especially concerning the women of his alliance, the pair eventually decided that sticking with Claude's alliance would be better for their games. This was made evident when Laurence opted to hinder Aurélie in the second individual Immunity Challenge when the former was eliminated from said challenge. After Claude won the second individual Immunity Challenge, Denis Brogniart revealed to the merged tribe that Tribal Council would be taking place right there and then. With their initial target having won immunity, Abdellah and Marine voted against Kunlé. Meanwhile, though it seemed that Claude's alliance would be targeting Aurélie for having just been voted out in the previous cycle and for her poor sportsmanship against Laurence regarding the second individual Immunity Challenge, they instead voted out Abdellah for his recent scheming. When Kunlé won the second individual Reward Challenge, he chose to take Philippe on the reward with him, which left Claude alone with the women at camp for the day and night. With Claude criticizing some of the women yet again for not contributing to certain chores such as tending to the fire, Véronique, Laurence, and Marine discussed how they would prefer Philippe winning the competition over Claude and how they would be willing to strategize against Claude in order to achieve this. As Philippe and Kunlé were heading back from their reward the next day, the contestants back at camp had to send two people to trek in order to collect letters from home. Claude and Wafa went to retrieve the letters and, upon arriving at the trove, they were given the right to trade as many of the letters as they wanted for food. They chose to keep Véronique and Laurence's letters and trade the rest for food. When the pair returned to camp the next morning, Aurélie was disappointed that they did not keep her letter, but understood why they were willing to forfeit it. Later that day, Claude won the third individual Immunity Challenge fair and square, but he and some of the other contestants criticized Kunlé for a move that the latter had made during the challenge which seemed to benefit Claude. With Tribal Council taking place the following day, Marine was unable to secure the votes needed to eliminate Wafa, who was her secondary target considering that Claude had won immunity, and she was voted out in turn by most of Claude's alliance.
At the Final Seven, Véronique and Laurence, knowing that they would have Aurélie's vote, decided to act on their thoughts from the previous cycle and approached Philippe with a strategy to vote out Wafa if Claude won the next individual Immunity Challenge or vote out Claude if he failed to do so. Though Véronique told Philippe that flipping on Claude would be the best move to secure his spot in the Final Two, he told her that he would think about it after the next individual Immunity Challenge takes place. To the surprise of her tribemates, Véronique won the third individual Reward Challenge. In consequence, her reward was an overnight stay in Ho Chi Minh City and she chose to share her reward with Laurence due to a deal that they had made with each other. While the pair were on their reward, they further discussed their plans to potentially vote out Claude. Meanwhile, back at camp, Philippe seemed to have made up his mind, choosing to stick with Claude's alliance, and informed everyone except for Aurélie about what Véronique and Laurence had told him. When they returned to camp the next day, Véronique and Laurence sensed the bad ambiance around camp but decided that they'd still wait until after the fourth individual Immunity Challenge to talk to Philippe again about the plan. Breaking Claude's streak, Philippe won the fourth individual Immunity Challenge that afternoon, which he dedicated to his wife. When Véronique talked to Philippe about voting Claude out at Tribal Council now that he didn't have immunity for once, Philippe informed her that he would be sticking with Claude, which prompted Véronique to immediately side with him and throw Laurence under the bus for coming up with the strategy against Claude. Véronique ran away from Laurence at one point but explained why she was doing so when the latter caught up with the former. Throughout the rest of the cycle, there were tensions between the pair regarding the amount of responsibility either person had in terms of the failed strategy, however, Claude and Wafa knew that, regardless, they both had a stake in it and that they would need to be wary of them going forward. Right before Tribal Council, Véronique suffered from a hypoglycemic attack, which resulted in her being temporarily evacuated from the game and exempt from attending Tribal Council. At Tribal Council, Aurélie was voted out unanimously due to her lack of agency within the game. After Philippe won the fourth individual Reward Challenge, he gave the food portion of his reward to his tribemates for them to share. The next day, Claude won the fifth individual Immunity Challenge, which marked his fourth and final individual Immunity Challenge win this season. Upon returning to camp, Claude and Kunlé went exploring for food and collected six coconuts that they brought back to camp. However, the pair also found and ate a dozen bananas before coming back to camp and did not divulge this information to their tribemates until Tribal Council that night. At Tribal Council, Claude and Kunlé received criticism for their selfishness regarding the bananas, to which they responded that the bananas would have been spoiled had they brought them back to camp. The women's votes were scattered with Véronique, Wafa, and Kunlé each receiving a vote against them, however, the men succeeded in voting together to eliminate Laurence.
Voting History[]
| Episode | Laurence's Votes |
Voted Against Laurence |
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| 1 | Frédérique | - |
| 2 | Vang Tribe Immune | |
| 3 | Do Tribe Immune | |
| 4 | Do Tribe Immune | |
| 5 | Do Tribe Immune | |
| 6 | Do Tribe Immune | |
| 7 | Audrey | - |
| 8 | Ineligible | - |
| Aurélie | - | |
| 9 | Abdellah | - |
| 10 | Marine | - |
| 11 | Aurélie | - |
| 12 | Kunlé | Kunlé, Philippe, Wafa |
| Voted Out, Day 35 | ||
| Voted for Sole Survivor |
Philippe | |
La Nouvelle Édition[]
After the opening challenge, Denis Brogniart revealed to the eleven active contestants that they would be starting off the game individually rather than in tribes. With there being more women than men, Isabelle Da Silva formed an alliance with the five other women and they agreed to vote off either Phil Bizet or Philippe Duron at the first Tribal Council. However, Florence Delbarre Reuter and Laurence were hesitant to follow through on this plan due to their prior ties to Laurent Maistret and Philippe, respectively. The pair informed the men and, in turn, the men formed a counter-alliance and promised Florence and Laurence safety if they join them, which they did. The group originally planned to vote against Sandra Acabado at Tribal Council for not contributing as much around camp, but with the threat of her Hidden Immunity Necklace looming, they voted out ringleader Isabelle instead and left the rest of her alliance blindsided. The next cycle, Freddy Boucher and Teheiura Teahui entered the game, bringing with them fire that they had started during their long trek in the first cycle. With the pair picking their respective tribemates, Laurence was selected by Teheiura to be a part of the Tengah tribe. Before the second tribal Immunity Challenge, Laurence revealed that she had been feeling dizzy, to which Denis Brogniart added that the medics had deemed her unfit to compete in the challenge and that she would sit out. After the challenge was halted so that Isabelle could be evacuated, it was noticed that Laurence's dizziness had worsened, so she was sent to the infirmary as well. The Tengah tribe lost the challenge and, with Laurence absent and the newly arrived Sara Tallon immune, Florence had a breakdown since she was the only woman eligible for elimination and the men seemed unlikely to vote against each other. At Tribal Council, a recuperated Laurence returned to her tribe with her right to vote, but also with her eligibility for elimination. Florence suggested the possibility that Laurence feigned her sickness in an attempt to avoid Tribal Council, but Laurence confirmed that she truly was dizzy, pointing out that she had showed symptoms before Isabelle's evacuation and that she is ultimately at Tribal Council. With the Tengah tribe prioritizing her health, Laurence was voted out unanimously.
Voting History[]
| Episode | Laurence's Votes |
Voted Against Laurence |
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| 1 | Isabelle | - |
| 2 | Tengah Tribe Immune | |
| 3 | Teheiura | Florence, Isabelle, Laurent, Moundir, Teheiura |
| Voted Out, Day 8 | ||
| Black Vote |
Sara1 | |
^1 Laurence's black vote for Sara took effect in episode 4.
Post Koh-Lanta[]
Trivia[]
- Laurence Pizzocchia is the first Koh-Lanta castaway to be from Switzerland.
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