Julie Rignault

Julie Rignault
Contestant Profile
Hometown	Nièvre
Occupation	Taxi Driver
Survivor Career
Version	France
Tribe(s)	Matukad Merged Tribe
Finish	3/22
Challenge Wins	9
Votes Against	8
Days Lasted	38/38

Julie Rignault is a contestant from Koh-Lanta: Les Chasseurs d'Immunité.

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Julie, 37 ans
Artisan taxi, Nièvre (58)

Taxi et fière de l'être, Julie est aussi bienveillante avec ses clients qu'intransigeante avec ses employés. Les épreuves de la vie ont forgé sa personnalité de battante et sa volonté d'être indépendante. Pour Julie rien ne vaut le travail, tout se mérite, c'est ce qu'elle inculque à ses enfants. Elle vient pour prouver que les efforts sont toujours récompensés, et récupérer les "100 patates" comme elle dit !

Koh-Lanta

Julie was placed on the Matukad tribe. Though Julie was marked as a weak link due to her subpar performances in the early challenges, the Matukad tribe won the majority of them, keeping the tribe generally intact throughout the tribal phase with only two visits to Tribal Council. At the beginning of the second cycle, the contestants were joined by two new competitors, the challenge-oriented Léa Notardonato and the survival-oriented William Plancq, both of whom would be immune for the cycle. After losing the corresponding Reward Challenge, the Matukad tribe was left with Léa N. to join them and increase their numbers to eleven. The Matukad tribe did their best to make Léa N. feel welcome, but many of its members would have preferred recruiting William because the tribe needed a fire. After the Matukad tribe lost the second Immunity Challenge, Alicia Bouly became the main target for elimination due to her great difficulty in said challenge. In order to ensure that Alicia did not have a Hidden Immunity Necklace, Émilie Escaffre, Cécile Poprawa, and Julie went to check her bag, with Émilie examining the bag while Cécile and Julie were on the lookout. Nothing was found and Alicia was blindsided at Tribal Council.

At the beginning of the third cycle, the twenty remaining contestants competed in an endurance challenge in which the two contestants that dropped out first of the tribe that would see all of its members drop out before the last of the other tribe's members would face off in an elimination duel. Cécile and Mégane Rouland were the first and second, respectively, to drop out of the Matukad tribe and Léa N. dropped out right after Mégane. Fortunately for Cécile and Mégane, Maxime Barbet and Ricky Poyet outlasted the last of the rival Kadasi tribe, William, and saved the two from the elimination duel.

Over the following couple of cycles, there was tension between Émilie and Léa N., which translated somewhat into the rest of the tribe. When the Matukad tribe attended Tribal Council after losing the fifth Immunity Challenge, they decided upon voting out Émilie after she was asked about and she admitted to checking Alicia's bag before her elimination, an act for which she was deemed untrustworthy. A couple of cycles later, after losing the seventh Immunity Challenge, Maxime was voted out at Tribal Council due to his arrogance and due to falsely accusing some of his tribemates of being in an alliance.

The next cycle, the tribes merged and, even though the two tribes were now one, the six original Kadasi tribe members and the seven original Matukad tribe members strategized away from one another, with the latter group planning on pagonging the former group and trying to figure out who may have a Hidden Immunity Necklace among them and the former group working out for who to play any Hidden Immunity Necklaces at the merged tribe's first Tribal Council. However, Sébastien Cazaux bonded with Jean Belmonte over the two being carpenters and learned from him that the original Matukad tribe members would be voting based off of merit, inciting the original Kadasi tribe members to want to protect Océane Montenegro, who was not as strong in challenges. Anticipating this, Meïssa Seck tried telling his group to switch targets, but his arguments fell on deaf ears. At Tribal Council, the original Matukad tribe members indeed voted against Océane while the original Kadasi tribe members voted against Léa N. Before the votes were read, Meïssa played his Hidden Immunity Necklace for Cécile, Pauline Bonneil played hers for herself, and Amri Madani played his for himself and for Océane, resulting in Léa N. being "idoled out."

Throughout the next cycle, Meïssa began to bond well with Amri and this, along with his frustration towards his original allies for ignoring his advice regarding Océane, incited him to shift his allegiance. For the time being, the pair agreed that Meïssa would continue to vote with the original Matukad tribe members but would inform Amri about who their targets would be. After Jean won the second individual immunity challenge, he and his allies agreed to vote against Amri next, so Meïssa leaked this information to Amri as agreed upon. Fortunately for Amri, he would be able to protect himself as he had found a Hidden Immunity Necklace earlier in the cycle. Completely aware of the cross-tribal arrangement keeping all of them alive, the original Kadasi tribe members agreed to vote against Cécile at Tribal Council because they felt that she was the strategic thinker of their rivals. Meanwhile, Meïssa wanted to keep Mégane, whom he considered his closest ally among the original Matukad tribe members, for as long as possible, so he let her know that Amri wouldn't be eliminated but that neither would she. Feeling suspicious, Mégane told Julie that the group needed to switch their target onto Pauline because of Meïssa's words, but nothing changed as Julie didn't think that this made sense and felt that Mégane was being naive. At Tribal Council, Amri successfully played his Hidden Immunity Necklace for himself and Cécile was "idoled out," blindsiding the original Matukad tribe members.

At the Final Ten, the Tied Destinies twist took place and the pairings were Jean and Mégane, Pauline and Meïssa, Sébastien and Aurélien Dulau, Amri and Julie, and David Murail and Léa Sahin. Wanting for their partnership to remain clandestine, Meïssa tried to convince Amri to vote against the only pair without original Matukad tribe members in it, Sébastien and Aurélien, when Tribal Council would come, but Amri refused. Meanwhile, David and Léa S. bonded well, with the former inviting the latter into an alliance including themselves, Jean, Julie, and Mégane. When it was time for the individual immunity challenge, it was won by the only pair without original Kadasi tribe members in it, Jean and Mégane, setting the tone for which group of the original Kadasi tribe members and the original Matukad tribe members would be holding more power at the coming Tribal Council. After Sébastien rudely told Julie to shut her mouth in a squabble regarding camp chores and Aurélien exposed Meïssa's double-dealing to the original Matukad tribe members in order to shift the target onto him, the pair was eliminated at Tribal Council after Sébastien received the majority of the votes, including from Pauline and Amri. During the next cycle, Jean gravely sprained his ankle the day before the next individual immunity challenge and was permanently evacuated from the game just before said challenge began, leaving his remaining allies in a precarious position. Léa S., who had Sébastien's Black Vote, assured David that she would vote with him, Julie, and Mégane at Tribal Council against either Amri or Meïssa. In reality, Léa S. intended to stay true to her original allies and she got them to vote out Mégane after she assessed that the latter was connecting and strategizing with too many people. Meïssa threw his vote onto Julie instead because of his appreciation of Mégane. Upon exiting, Mégane gave her Black Vote to Julie.

The next morning, aware that either Sébastien or Aurélien would be returning to the game soon in order to replace Jean due to the rules of Koh-Lanta, the remaining six contestants formed an agreement to do whatever it takes to prevent whoever the returnee would be from winning challenges and advantages. Additionally, Amri and David separately promised Meïssa that if they won the upcoming individual reward challenge, they would select him to join them. Just before the reward challenge, Sébastien was revealed to be the winner of the duel between him and Aurélien and joined the other contestants and Denis Brogniart announced that the reward challenge would actually be a team challenge featuring two teams of three with one person left out of the challenge. Because it would be an endurance challenge, Get a Grip, the last person remaining would win the reward for their team and would earn a clue to a Hidden Immunity Necklace for themself. A rock draw determined that Amri and David would be the team captains and, ironically, neither selected Meïssa to be on their team after two opportunities, resulting in Meïssa being the person left out of the challenge. Sébastien, who was on the same team as David and Julie, was the last person remaining, earning the clue to a Hidden Immunity Necklace and winning a visit to a Filipino school for the trio. While they were away, Sébastien told David and Julie, the latter of whom having Mégane's Black Vote, about his plan to vote out Amri at Tribal Council out of revenge and the other two seemed on board with this. Meanwhile, upon returning to camp, Amri apologized to Meïssa for not selecting him earlier and the pair, along with Pauline and Léa S., expressed their disdain towards David for having broken the prior agreement by selecting Sébastien to be on his team and made plans to vote him out since Sébastien was now likely to find a Hidden Immunity Necklace with his clue. Meïssa won the individual immunity challenge and, at Tribal Council, Sébastien found a Hidden Immunity Necklace in the voting booth, played it for himself, and Amri and David each received four votes cast against them, forcing a revote. Unfortunately for David, Julie's possession of Mégane's Black Vote did not pass over to the revote, resulting in his elimination in a 4-3 vote. Going into the Final Six, Sébastien was able to patch things up with the other original Kadasi tribe members, slightly improving his social position. Regardless, after he lost the Final Immunity Challenge, Pauline and Amri decided to target him instead of Julie because he would be a harder opponent to beat in the Orienteering challenge. Also, Amri had received a penalty vote after finishing last in the Final Immunity Challenge and was concerned that Sébastien was still bitter and would take advantage of that. At Tribal Council, Sébastien cast both of his votes against Julie and was joined by Léa S. in this, but the rest of the tribe voted against Sébastien and his second elimination was compounded by Meïssa's cursed Hidden Immunity Necklace giving its recipient an additional vote against them.

Having made it to the finale, Julie was eliminated at the Final Three after Léa S. won the Perch challenge and took Meïssa to the Final Two instead of her.

Voting History

Episode	Julie's Votes	Voted Against Julie
1	Matukad Tribe Immune
2	Alicia	Alicia, David, Mégane
3	Matukad Tribe Immune
4	Matukad Tribe Immune
5	Émilie	-
6	Matukad Tribe Immune
7	Maxime	-
8	Ineligible	-
9	Océane1	-
10	Amri2	-
11	Sébastien	-
12	Amri3	Meïssa
13	Amri + Amri; Amri4	-
14	Sébastien	Léa S., Sébastien (x2)
15	No Tribal Council
16	Ineligible	Léa S.
Voted Out, Day 38
Voted for Sole Survivor	Meïssa

^1 In "Episode 9", Amri used a Hidden Immunity Necklace on Océane, negating Julie's vote against her.
^2 In "Episode 10", Amri used a Hidden Immunity Necklace, negating Julie's vote against him.
^3 In "Episode 12", Amri used a Hidden Immunity Necklace, negating Julie's vote against him.
^4 In "Episode 13", Julie used an Extra Vote advantage, allowing her to vote twice at Tribal Council. Also, the vote ended with a 4-4 tie between Amri and David, forcing a revote.