Survivor

French TV cancels popular show after Fiji sexual assault complaint

This follows claims by a 21-year-old contestant in the show Koh-Lanta that she had been sexually assaulted by a fellow competitor in the night from the fourth to the fifth day of filming of the latest series.

The production company Adventure Line says the alleged assailant has rejected the accusation.

The head of the company Alexia Laroche-Joubert says given that Koh-Lanta is a family show, it has been decided to abandon the shoot of the programme which was to have been aired later this year.

Australian reboot of popular Survivor series set to be filmed on rugged Samoa

According to The Daily Telegraph, Network Ten scouted the Pacific Islands for possible locations before settling on idyllic Samoa.