Joëlle Bourlier

Joëlle Bourlier is a contestant from .
Joëlle was eliminated on Day 1 for losing the opening sudden death challenge.
==Koh-Lanta==
For the group section of the opening sudden death challenge, Joëlle was partnered with Alexandre Amico, Rodolphe Assi, Fabienne Lefebvre-Trehoux, Louis-Laurent Léger, and Marine Mocellin. After the group transitioned into the individual section of this challenge, Joëlle was the last woman to arrive at the finish line with her staff and was eliminated from the competition.
===Voting History===
Because she was eliminated before the first Tribal Council, Joëlle did not have a voting history.
Episode	Joëlle'sVotes	Voted AgainstJoëlle
1 	colspan="2" 	
 	 	
 Joëlle was eliminated for losing the first challenge.
==Post-Koh-Lanta==
* Upset by her sudden elimination, Joëlle asked the production team to be edited as if she were not part of the season. Therefore, she did not appear in the intro, never gave a confessional, never had her name mentioned, and was not present for the live final vote count in Paris. She was only referred by a voice-over after the eliminating challenge, in the following words: "A woman also lost this challenge, but due to reasons of her own, you won't see anything of her".
**Joëlle spoke out about her experience in an interview, stating how she was upset to have gone through such rigorous interviews and training for the show over a time period of over five months only to be eliminated without being assigned to a tribe within minutes of the season starting. She said she would have been happy had she been eliminated following the division of tribes, but felt her elimination was unfair.https://www.dhnet.be/medias/television/2010/04/14/koh-lanta-9-une-ancienne-candidate-accuse-la-production-HYGVIGRFY5BTPE7A6M6APGL4CY/
==Trivia==
* Joëlle is the oldest castaway to compete on .
* Joëlle Bourlier and Myriam Desvergne are currently the only contestants to never be affiliated with a tribe in their Koh-Lanta careers. However, they are not the first Koh-Lanta contestants to not be affiliated with a tribe on a season, as Amel Fatnassi lost an opening challenge on Day 1 of Koh-Lanta: Le Retour des Héros and lost a duel for a chance to return to the game.
==References==
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Category:Oldest Contestants
Category:Female Contestants
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Category:Koh-Lanta: Palau
Category:Palau (FR) Contestants
Category:18th Place