Man vs. Wild Star Apologizes for Staged Show

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 Man vs. Wild Star Apologizes for Staged Show
From wild to mild! Man vs. Wild star Bear Grylls has apologized for staging aspects of his hit survivalist show. For the series, the British-born Grylls was supposedly abandoned in the wild and left to fend for himself. But a program consultant revealed last year that, during one Hawaii shoot, he stayed in a motel. “If people felt [...] [link]

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Man vs. Wild Star Apologizes for Staged Show
Published 3/21/2008 at OH NO!!
... not always involved in the editing side of it.” Reality is “much less exciting” than the version presented on screen, Grylls, whose show is known as Born Survivor in the U.K., admitted. And the hotels? Grylls insisted he was still roughing it. “The hotel [can be] four walls but not a roof, or a roof with no walls,” he maintained. The Discovery Channel admitted “isolated elements” were not “natural to the environment,” and promised greater clarity in future. source

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