Bear Grylls’ blog:
“…although having to eat a massive raw goats testicle as their guest was a low point for me!â€
From this quote it sounds like Bear is a regular Goat reader. Thanks for the kind words and encouragement, Bear.
The below clip from Bear’s blog is his response to press accusations that he’s been sleeping in hotels and cooking his goat’s testicles.
Re: the recent press accusations of motels and stagings in the show that have been doing the rounds, all I can say is they don’t always tell the full story, but that’s life and part of being in the public eye I guess.
The upshot is we’re determined to make all new shows more inclusive of the crew and their role. Discovery and Channel 4 will also include a disclaimer at the start of the show so there’s no confusion.
His response avoids specifics, though the sentences contain plenty of verbs and nouns. He doesn’t admit to faking anything, but it sounds like the new Discovery Channel disclaimer will make it clear that he’s never claimed the show was an unbroken chain of days spent surviving the wilderness.
He can pretend he wasn’t trying to convince viewers that he spent every day in the wilderness, but if you’ve ever seen the show you’ve watched him chow a snake or turtle under the pretense that he was near starvation—those clips will be a little harder to watch with a straight face. Still, that’s one good looking guy.
ByRocky Thompson
Something sure got his goat (testicles)! Hell, I put your sticker on the snowboarding truck…now I’ve got to look over my shoulder to be sure Bear’s not looking at me for lunch!
Rocky why did you bury youself up to the neck in dirt? I liked you better with hair.
Did anyone catch his great mountaineering technique of glissading down hardpack on his back with his ice-axe behind him? Bear Grylls vs. ‘Freedom of the Hills’ could be a season in itself. Does he or his producers ever get the obligation to put on a show that may not influence people to go out with poor information that may kill them?
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Quote”# Andy Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Did anyone catch his great mountaineering technique of glissading down hardpack on his back with his ice-axe behind him? Bear Grylls vs. ‘Freedom of the Hills’ could be a season in itself. Does he or his producers ever get the obligation to put on a show that may not influence people to go out with poor information that may kill them?”
Yes this show exists and its called survivorman. Les is legit.
Check youtube. There’s a video of him in Hawaii, jumping over a crack in the lava rock, then the camera pans out and shows a highway about 200 meters away. Besides that, he’s not the smartest survivalist I’ve ever seen, either. I prefer Survivorman.
Survivorman is much better. It’s more believeable (the guy carries his OWN cameras!) and the host is more likeable.
Bear is such a gaper, My favorite was the AK heli skier episode. The first thing he does is kick off his skis, with at least 800 vert worth of snow below him and starts walking, “these skis will just slow me down, its much faster to walk and glissade” ~Bear What a hoser (grin) Then he walks down an ice fall (blue ice) with some downhill ski boots, but they only show him start and finish. pfft
We love to watch Bear and compare him to survivorman. There is no comparison!! Who jumps in a freezing cascading river to get downstream? Only a crazy man, but Bear’s not crazy he had his life jacket on. You could see it peaking out from under his shirt. I’m always looking for the road or civilization someone where behind Bear.
We love survivorman!!
I love the Bear vs. Survivorman debate. I just caught a rerun where Les came on a spider web and in mock accent said, “I’ve just come on a ferocious black widow spider’s nest. Best not to maintain eye contact and back away slowly.” No question, Les is the man.
i think you guys are just sick of watching your girl friends drool over this guy. do i smell some jealousy?
how about the episode where he floats down a raging river with only his backpack to use as floatation…..oh…wait…i can clearly see he’s WEARING A F’ING LIFEJACKET UNDERNEATH HIS SHIRT!!!!!!!!. I’ve seen several glaring examples of fraud on this show…it’s like they don’t even try to make is seem real. the editors must be drunk. bear is cool tho. i’d like to have a bear with him and then maybe touch his wife inappropriately.
I thought by the picture above that Bear was upset and going to bury himself in the ground until opinion turned around. Even my wife, who is not a back country person, looks at him and says, “Is he crazy?”. She will watch Les and not make any comments. Sorry Bear.
When the story originally came out, I didn’t think it was as bad as it’s turning out to be. What in the heck are they doing replaying last season’s episodes with the narration redone??? They’re just making it worse! I’m seeing that there was so much more ‘cheating’ done than I thought before! I’m really disillusioned now, much more than when the story first came out.