Linda Alario is a contestant from Koh-Lanta: Panama and Koh-Lanta: Le Choc des Héros.
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Linda, finaliste en 2004 - Finaliste de Koh-Lanta 4 au Panama.Gagnante des poteaux, elle avait choisi pour son malheur Philippe comme finaliste. Elle ne remporta donc pas le titre, mais elle fut une valeureuse concurrente. Depuis, cette commerçante niçoise dynamique est devenue maman ! De quoi, de nouveau, relever le défi avec sérénité.
Linda: "Dans toutes les épreuves on sera à fond. On est là pour ça.
Koh-Lanta[]
Panama[]
A member of the all-female Chapera tribe, Linda became close with SL and Sophie Eeckhout and the trio teased and criticized Catherine Ehret-Mader due to her charisma, appearance, and demeanour. In response, Nathalie Lapicque and Vicky Lemarié defended Catherine against the girls and the three eventually formed a voting bloc with Amélie Grégoire and Odile Héritier. After losing the second Immunity Challenge, Sophie was voted out by the majority five as she was seen as the ringleader of the trio.
On Day 8, the Chapera tribe sent Linda and their two scouts, SL and Catherine, to what they thought was going to be a challenge for reward, but it turned out to be a tribe switch. As a result, they were reassigned to the Mogo tribe and their representatives, Raphaël Andrès, Romuald Lafite, and Alban Mbossoro were reassigned to the Chapera tribe. Right out of the gate, Linda and SL formed an alliance with Jean-Bernard de Cools and Guillaume Brauer and the former pair suggested Catherine as a potential target for their alliance to vote against due to her weakness in challenges. When Vidéli Dittmar was evacuated and eliminated from the game on Day 10 because his heel wound was worsening, Sophie returned to the game on the Mogo tribe in his place. Because a tribe switch had occurred, the Mogo tribe was no longer all-male. With Linda and SL reuniting with Sophie and their newfound alliance with Jean-Bernard and Guillaume, it seemed that Catherine would be going home when the Mogo tribe lost the third Immunity Challenge. However, Jean-Bernard and Guillaume weren't trustworthy of Linda and SL and SL had earned the ire of her tribemates, including Linda and Sophie, because they felt that her nastiness towards Catherine had crossed a certain line. Therefore, at the corresponding elimination, SL was voted out unanimously. In spite of Linda and Sophie voting with Catherine to eliminate SL and, two cycles later, Jean-Bernard, the relationship between the pair and Catherine did not improve and they formed a new alliance with Philippe Bordier against Guillaume and Catherine.
Before the merge, Philippe and Romuald represented their respective tribes as Ambassadors after competing in a Hero Challenge that Philippe won for reward. Philippe quickly offered Guillaume's name as the Ambassadors' vote for the first merge elimination, to which Romuald agreed. Over time, Philippe felt that Guillaume was worthy to stay in the game and regretted his decision at the Ambassadors' Meeting, but it was too late. After failing to win the first individual Immunity Challenge, Guillaume was eliminated at the first merge elimination, receiving other votes from the majority of the second Chapera tribe members, who wanted to make it to the Final Five together, and even Catherine, who realized that Guillaume was emotionally drained and would benefit from leaving the game.
In spite of Linda and Philippe themselves voting for Catherine, they and Sophie saw her flip on Guillaume as treacherous to the second Mogo tribe members. Over the next few days, many of the contestants became ill. Many of the second Chapera tribe members blamed their sickness on eating the moray eel that Raphaël had caught earlier, but Linda, Philippe, and Sophie used this to their advantage and convinced Raphaël that his allies were being ungrateful of him. Despite this, Raphaël didn't budge from his alliance that now included Catherine as an affiliate and Linda was voted out next for her challenge prowess. When Odile was evacuated and eliminated from the game on Day 26 due to persisting illness, Linda returned to the game in her place with immunity at the upcoming elimination. Linda happily reunited with Sophie and they argued with Catherine some more, with the latter mentioning that she was furious that two of her biggest enemies in the game, of all people, were given second chances. Sophie was the next intended target of Catherine and the majority alliance because of her injured finger and because Linda was immune, but she and Linda argued to the majority alliance that Catherine did not actually deserve to go any further because of her consistent weakness in challenges. With this, the majority alliance realized that tensions between Linda, Sophie, and Catherine would end right away and the camp would be peaceful if Catherine were eliminated next, so all of Catherine's tribemates, except for Alban, voted out Catherine at the next elimination.
Unfortunately for Linda, Sophie was eliminated next. When Alban won the Reward Challenge at the Final Six and selected Romuald to share the reward with him, this decision angered the rest of the tribe because Romuald had benefited from more rewards than the rest of the tribe and because Romuald was lazy around camp. Raphaël, who, up until this point, had been talked to on multiple occasions by Linda and Philippe to flip on his alliance, finally did so and Amélie joined him. So, because Romuald won the next Immunity Challenge, Alban was voted out. At the Final Five, Linda and Amélie were now on the block and Romuald was the swing vote. Though he initially told Linda that he'd vote against her at elimination, he ultimately cast his vote against Amélie because he realized that Linda would be easier to beat in the long run.
After winning the Perch challenge at the Final Three, Linda chose to take her ally Philippe to the Final Two over Raphaël. There, even though she was told by the jury that she merited her spot in the Final Two for her strength in challenges, she lost unanimously to Philippe because of her moments of meanness throughout the game and because she was previously voted out at the Final Nine.
Voting History[]
| Episode | Linda's Votes |
Voted Against Linda |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapera Tribe Immune | |
| 2 | Catherine | - |
| 3 | SL | - |
| 4 | Mogo Tribe Immune | |
| 5 | Jean-Bernard | Jean-Bernard |
| 6 | Mogo Tribe Immune | |
| 7 | Catherine | - |
| 8 | Catherine | Alban, Amélie, Catherine, Odile, Raphaël, Romuald |
| Voted Out, Day 25 | ||
| Returned, Day 27 | ||
| 9 | Catherine | Individual Immunity1 |
| 10 | Amélie | - |
| 11 | Alban | Alban, Romuald |
| 12 | Amélie | Amélie, Raphaël |
| 13 | Romuald | - |
| Raphaël | Individual Immunity | |
| Jury Votes for Linda |
- | |
| Runner-Up, Day 40 | ||
^1 Since Linda returned after the Immunity Challenge for the cycle occurred, she was made immune from the vote to compensate that fact.
Le Choc des Héros[]
Linda entered the competition as one of the returning players, so she was assigned to the Tiac tribe. They immediately competed in the first Reward Challenge and lost it against the Malabou tribe, which consisted of renowned French athletes. In spite of this loss, which resulted in them missing out on a niaouli roof reward to use as part of their shelter, the Tiac tribe was confident that they would be able to construct a shelter superior to that of their rivals based on their past experience on Koh-Lanta. The next day, Christina Chevry became stressed and expressed a desire to quit the competition. Christina's tribemates succeeded in calming her down, especially Linda, who consoled her and motivated her to keep fighting for her team in a one-on-one conversation. The Tiac tribe narrowly won the first Immunity Challenge and, on top of this, they succeeded in starting a fire that evening. The next morning, the Tiac tribe feasted on periwinkles and sea urchins to the point where they were full and could not eat anymore, which is a state not often experienced by castaways on the show.
In spite of their meaningful conversation in the previous cycle, Linda and Christina were at odds with the former criticizing the latter and Coumba Baradji for not working as much as the rest of the tribe. Right before the second Reward Challenge, Hot Pursuit, both tribes received a new member: Mohamed Derradji was assigned to the Tiac tribe and Taïg Khris was assigned to the Malabou tribe. The Tiac tribe lost this challenge. The next day, the Tiac tribe narrowly won the second Immunity Challenge, earning them safety from Tribal Council again. The Tiac tribe won the third Reward Challenge, but they were clearly divided by the end of the day with Linda, Freddy Boucher, and Grégoire Delachaux in one alliance, Coumba, Christina, and Mohamed in another, and Christophe Guttatoro-Martin seeming to be a potential swing vote for the two alliances. Coumba and Mohamed made separate attempts to recruit Christophe into their alliance with Mohamed suggesting to him that they take out Freddy, but Christophe responded that he would think about it. Christophe also told Mohamed that taking out Freddy would be a bad idea and that he should be careful not to rebel too much, reminding Mohamed of his own mistake in dealing with Bertrand Bolle in Caramoan. That night, the Tiac tribe gathered around in order for Mohamed to express his feelings about not being their leader, which was a role that Mohamed wanted to take on but couldn't as he did not have enough social capital to do so since he was the newest member of the tribe. Eventually, the tribe's conversation turned into a conflict with some tribe members angrily expressing their issues with other tribe members. After losing the third Immunity Challenge the next day, Coumba's alliance planned to target Linda for her conflicts with Christina instead of targeting Freddy while Freddy's alliance planned to target Mohamed for being the perceived catalyst of the tribe's disarray instead of targeting Christina, who had felt like quitting earlier in the competition. At Tribal Council, Christophe sided with Freddy's alliance, resulting in Mohamed's elimination.
The Tiac tribe lost the fourth Reward Challenge against the Malabou tribe by a landslide. After the challenge, Denis Brogniart surprised the castaways by informing them that they would be merging that day and that both tribes would need to quickly select their respective Ambassadors to compete in a duel. He also informed them that a failure for the Ambassadors to reach a consensus on who to eliminate would result in the loser of the duel being eliminated instead. This was unlike the previous two seasons in which a failure for the Ambassadors to reach a consensus on who to eliminate would result in the two having to opt for a rock draw to determine who between them would be eliminated instead. The Malabou tribe selected Taïg to be their Ambassador and the Tiac tribe selected Christina to be theirs. Christina won the duel against Taïg, which granted her immunity at the merged tribe's first Tribal Council, immunity from being eliminated as an Ambassador, and, in turn, power over Taïg to ensure that a Malabou tribe member is eliminated by the Ambassadors and not a Tiac tribe member. Taïg revealed to Christina that, after being selected to be his tribe's Ambassador, he was approached by Djamel Bouras, Frédérique Jossinet, and Myriam Lamare and the four agreed that he should offer Gwendal's name should he lose the duel. Therefore, Christina and Taïg agreed upon Gwendal and he was eliminated from the game. After Christina and Taïg returned to camp and broke the news, the original Malabou tribe members explained to Gwendal that they had made this pact because they felt that he was the least deserving among them to continue forward through the game due to his arrogance during the tribal phase of the game. With the individual phase of the game beginning, the original Malabou tribe members made plans to vote based on who they thought was the least sportive of the tribe. However, the original Tiac tribe members made plans to pagong the original Malabou tribe members, though Coumba temporarily considered flipping to the other side due to being at the bottom of her alliance along with Christina. Their first target was to be Frédérique, who they feared would be good at the Perch challenge should she make it that far into the competition. Upon realizing that they were going to be pagonged, the original Malabou tribe members expressed their frustrations and changed their plans, opting to vote together against Freddy, who was considered one of the leaders of the original Tiac tribe members. Meanwhile, the original Tiac tribe members changed their plans as well, choosing to target Djamel because they realized that he would be a physical threat in the short-term and that he needed to eat more than the rest of the tribe. Thus, at Tribal Council, Djamel was voted out in a 6-4 vote.
Upon returning from Tribal Council, Christina was temporarily evacuated from the game due to her emotional stress taking a toll on her body. The next day, Frédérique and Myriam generally avoided tasks around camp and tried to relax in order to get themselves ready for the next two challenges, the second of which being crucial for their survival in the game. Linda and Christophe were critical of this, stating that they looked like they were on holiday. Later, when Grégoire began to relax somewhat himself, Myriam told him that he should go fishing. This comment was taken poorly by most of the original Tiac tribe members, who felt that she was talking to him as if he hasn't been active around camp. Though Grégoire did go fishing soon after, the tensions throughout the day developed a rift beyond strategic reasons between the original Malabou tribe members and the original Tiac tribe members. Christina returned to camp the next morning and received a warm reception from her tribemates. Soon after, Taïg pricked his hand with the spiny dorsal fin of a fish he caught which turned out to be venomous. With his hands being temporarily paralyzed and his feeling as if there were ants crawling all over his body, Taïg was quickly treated by a medic who remedied the situation but also deemed Taïg unfit to compete in the second individual Immunity Challenge. In consequence, Taïg was immune from receiving any votes at the corresponding Tribal Council, but also could not cast a vote either. After Frédérique 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 Myriam being the only original Malabou tribe member eligible for elimination, Christina believed that her fellow original Tiac tribe members would be voting against her. However, Christina was blindsided by her allies in a 5-2-1 vote because they were concerned for her health. Throughout the next cycle, tensions between the two alliances were alleviated and there was more harmony around camp. This did not change the plans of the original Tiac tribe members though who resumed their pagonging of the original Malabou tribe members. When Freddy and Myriam won the second individual Reward Challenge, the latter tried to convince the former to consider voting based on merit instead of voting strategically. Freddy seemed to agree with Myriam on this, however, he ultimately stuck to his alliance's plan. When Myriam won the third individual Immunity Challenge, Frédérique was voted out at the corresponding Tribal Council.
Upset from realizing that they were still being pagonged, the remaining original Malabou tribe members slept together on the beach away from the original Tiac tribe members, who were sleeping in the shelter. The next night, the merged tribe had to experience heavy rain that continued into the following morning, which affected their morale going into the fourth individual Immunity Challenge. While Grégoire and Christophe went fishing, Myriam became closer to Coumba and had the same discussion about valuing merit over strategy with her as she did with Freddy. After Myriam won the fourth individual Immunity Challenge, which marked her fourth individual challenge win this season, Denis Brogniart revealed to the merged tribe that Tribal Council would be taking place right there and then like two cycles prior. Taïg was left as the only original Malabou tribe member eligible for elimination, so he was voted out by the original Tiac tribe members. The next day, the tribe had to send two people to collect letters from home from the summit of a nearby small mountain. Linda and Christophe went to retrieve the letters and each tribe member had received one. Linda won the fourth individual Reward Challenge, which was for a phone call to a loved one and a night at a hotel. Denis Brogniart informed Linda that she could forfeit her reward to give all of her tribemates a night at the hotel instead and give one of them the phone call. Linda chose to forfeit her reward for her tribemates and gave the phone call to Christophe. While at the hotel, Myriam seized an opportunity to talk to Coumba and Christophe about voting based on merit instead of based on strategy. Meanwhile, back at camp, Linda had a rough night alone as she tried to balance both sleeping and tending to the fire. The following afternoon, the contestants competed in their last individual Immunity Challenge before the finale, which Grégoire won. At the corresponding Tribal Council, Myriam was voted out unanimously as the last original Malabou tribe member standing.
Having made it to the finale, Linda was eliminated at the Final Five after losing the Orienteering challenge along with Coumba. Linda finished in fifth place while Coumba finished in fourth place because the latter had made more progress in the challenge than the former before they were forced to stop.
Voting History[]
| Episode | Linda's Votes |
Voted Against Linda |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiac Tribe Immune | |
| 2 | Tiac Tribe Immune | |
| 3 | Mohamed | Christina, Coumba, Mohamed |
| 4 | Ineligible | - |
| Djamel | - | |
| 5 | Christina | Frédérique, Myriam |
| 6 | Frédérique | Taïg |
| 7 | Taïg | - |
| 8 | Myriam | - |
| 9 | Lost Challenge1 | |
| Eliminated, Day 19 | ||
| Voted for Sole Survivor |
Grégoire | |
^1 At the final five, the remaining castaways competed in an elimination challenge. Linda failed to earn one of the three spots and was eliminated.
Post-Koh-Lanta[]
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Trivia[]
- Linda is the first contestant on Koh-Lanta who was voted out to return and later make it to Final Tribal Council.
- Linda is the first Koh-Lanta finalist to receive zero jury votes. She would be followed by Francis Bordas in Pacifique, Martin Bazin in La Nouvelle Édition, and Jesta Hillmann in L'Île au Trésor.
- Linda is the oldest woman to compete on Le Choc des Héros.
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