Charlène Hoffness

Charlène Hoffness is a contestant from .
==Profile==
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*Prénom: Charlène
*Age: 20 ans
*Profession: Etudiante en lettres
*Ville: Bas-Rhin (67)
*Equipe: 
*ZONE CV: Cette jeune étudiante de 20 ans, dynamique et toujours de bonne humeur ,n'a pas sa langue dans sa poche. Son caractère extraverti ne laisse pas indifférent! Le rire de Charlène pourrait bien résonner longtemps sur Mingao...
==Koh-Lanta==
For the opening challenge for rice and for the power to choose their tribemates, Charlène was partnered with Régis Colombier, Christophe Guttatoro-Martin, and Morgane Rodriguès. The team of Nathalie Ensargueix, Frédéric Favier, Christopher Lavaud, and Carole Rapin won the challenge and they did not select Charlène to be a part of the Tayak tribe. Therefore, Charlène became a member of the Mingao tribe. Charlène developed the most affinity with Jessica Joullié and the pair entered a loose majority alliance with Régis Colombier and Jean-Bernard Hauton-Arnaud. The Tayak tribe initially won the first Reward Challenge, in which the reward was fire, but the victory and the reward were transferred to the Mingao tribe later that day as it was discovered that Frédéric and Christopher had broken the rules at one point in the challenge. Apart from this, the Tayak tribe's obvious strength over the Mingao tribe worked in their favour in challenges, allowing for the former to ulong the latter. In order to try to stop this from happening, the Mingao tribe generally focused on eliminating weak links whenever they had to go to Tribal Council. When the Mingao tribe lost the first Immunity Challenge, Charlène's alliance voted out Irya Cissé as they felt that, between Irya and Valérie Tartacède-Bollaert, Irya was the weakest link on the tribe.
Respectively, when Valérie quit the game on Day 4 due to being out of her element and when Céga Coulibaly was evacuated and eliminated from the game on Day 5 due to intense stomach pain, Irya returned to the game on Day 5 in Valérie's place and joker contestant Alain Garcia entered the game on Day 7 in Céga's place. The day before Alain's arrival, the Mingao tribe had lost the second Immunity Challenge and, at the corresponding Tribal Council, Charlène's alliance had voted out Irya again. Alain arrived at the Mingao camp with a bag of rice as a welcoming gift and he was well-received by his new tribemates. During the third cycle, Christophe and Charlène were selected from their respective tribes by two locals, who were brother and sister, and the two contestants received tips on how to find certain plants and learned how to prepare them. Upon returning to camp, Charlène did her best to apply what she learned. Though the Mingao tribe lost the third Reward Challenge, they won the third Immunity Challenge mainly due to Jean-Bernard's strategy to swim in front of the raft. This would be the only time that the Mingao tribe won an Immunity Challenge. When the Mingao tribe lost the fourth Immunity Challenge, Alain was worried that he would get the axe at the corresponding Tribal Council because he was the newest tribe member. At Tribal Council, Denis Brogniart discussed with the Mingao tribe about their lack of communication, especially during the last two challenges, which prompted the tribe to designate Jean-Bernard as their leader. Charlène and Jessica voted against Alain, but the tribe's men prioritized strength over affiliation and they blindsided Jessica, who they felt was the new weakest link. When the Mingao tribe lost the fifth Immunity Challenge, Hakim Djellali, Alain, and Charlène all felt threatened going into Tribal Council. Hakim had annoyed Régis earlier in the cycle when waking him up, Alain was the newest member of the tribe, and Charlène was the last woman standing. At Tribal Council, the majority alliance stuck together and voted out Alain as they felt that, even though he wasn't weak in challenges, his introduction to the Mingao tribe didn't do much to improve their track record in challenges.
Before the tribes merged, both designated tribe leaders, Bertrand Bolle and Jean-Bernard, were selected as the Ambassadors for their respective tribes and visited their rivals' camps. Both men spent their visits trying to get to know their rivals rather than discussing what the voting dynamics might become in the individual phase. However, Bertrand also hinted to the Mingao tribe members that there might be some people on his own tribe that are more deserving of the Ambassadors' vote than they are and Jean-Bernard also talked about Hakim and his funny behaviour around camp, but also implied that Hakim was the fellow Mingao tribe member that he'd be willing to lose first. At the Ambassadors' Meeting, Bertrand and Jean-Bernard quickly opted for a draw, which resulted in Bertrand receiving the Ambassadors' vote. However, this didn't matter as all of the original Tayak tribe members, with the exception of Christophe and along with Hakim, who had very quickly socialized with the original Tayak tribe members come merge, voted out Jean-Bernard because of his status as the leader of his alliance, his challenge prowess, and his negative attitude and criticisms concerning Hakim. Meanwhile, Charlène's alliance had voted against Hakim at that Tribal Council because they saw his fast socializing with the original Tayak tribe members as sycophancy and this annoyed them on top of everything else that had annoyed them in relation to Hakim in the past.
At the Final Ten, the original Tayak tribe members made plans to vote out one of their own, Nathalie, because they still thought that she was being somewhat lazy around camp. On top of this reason, the alliance's men wanted to cancel Nathalie's attempts at making an all-female alliance. However, the day of the merged tribe's second Tribal Council, Christopher was evacuated to the infirmary as he was suffering from irregular heartbeat patterns. This prompted the original tribe members, with the exception of Nathalie, who was out of the loop, and Christopher, who was at the infirmary, to change their plans and vote out Hakim instead. They did this as they didn't want the original Mingao tribe members to go into the Final Nine with four in numbers, including Jean-Bernard, if Christopher were to be permanently evacuated from the game before the vote. The next day, when Christopher was permanently evacuated and eliminated from the game because he needed to go to the hospital for more tests, Hakim returned to the game in his place. At the Final Nine, Christophe, who felt personally insulted by Bertrand telling him that his actions at the previous Tribal Council were brainless, turned on Bertrand and tried to rally his tribemates to vote him out on the basis of him being too authoritarian as an alliance leader. This backfired as Christophe, who was now seen as treacherous for his scheming, replaced Nathalie as the black sheep of the original Tayak tribe members and was outcasted by the tribe, including the original Mingao tribe members, for the remainder of the cycle. At the corresponding Tribal Council, Christophe was voted out unanimously.
At the Final Eight, Bertrand and his alliance decided that they would resume their pagonging of the original Mingao tribe members for the next few cycles. Charlène was their first target and, in spite of her pleas to stay based on everyone agreeing that she merits her place in the competition, the original Tayak tribe members and Hakim, who wanted to save his own skin, voted her out at the corresponding Tribal Council.
===Voting History===
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==Post Koh-Lanta==
==Trivia==
* Charlène is the youngest contestant to compete on .
==References==
Category:Contestants
Category:Female Contestants
Category:Youngest Contestants
Category:Koh-Lanta
Category:Koh-Lanta Contestants
Category:Koh-Lanta: Caramoan
Category:Caramoan (FR) Contestants
Category:Mingao Tribe
Category:Merged Tribe (Caramoan)
Category:Caramoan (FR) Jury Members
Category:8th Place