[Closed] The Island - Bear Grylls ..could you?

Ive applied again

Get rid of the pigs and caymen to see how long they can last. 🙄

I'd like to think I could. Maybe I should apply...

does he make them eat dogshit for the valuable water content and stuff like that?

Theyre only just off to the other side of the island - there could be a bloody MaccyDs..

I'm applying this time round, I reckon I've got the mental capacity to survive it

Vic is my man crush

It's Made In Essex for MAMILS & the middle class innit?
At least Top Gear didn't pretend any of it was real.

I don't like BG from what I've seen and heard - he comes across as a right sanctimonious tool.
Reminds me of a televangelist, or someone who kicks his dog when he thinks no one's looking.

Full marks to all the participants though - gives you a bit of faith in the species.

Vic was great - no pissing about and got on with it. But they all did great. The women? Hmmmm, they'd have bailed ages ago without help which is a shame.

I've applied. Cant see me getting anywhere though.

At least Top Gear didn't pretend any of it was real.

After hearing about Bear's little tv cheats before I was sceptical and I voiced it a number of times throughout the shows. However when you get a bloke in his 20's looking like a 40yr old with a hangover and a couple of others with skulls for heads I'm not too sure the blokes had any assistance. Maybe that pig was planted to help them out, maybe it wasn't but what we did see was teamwork, etc etc. I bought into it. Yes we probably didn't see the bits where they fought and bickered constantly when you get on peoples nerves living with them 24/7 on low food. Maybe they didn't as they were too exhausted though.

I thought the last episode was fantastic. They were approaching a band of brothers. As for the ladies, sad really. They floundered really 🙁

I'd like to see a new set of girls- see how these fair as anyone applying now will know exactly what happens so it'll weed out alot of people?

As for TopGear - its never ever said 'this isn't real', it presents everything as fact surrounded by slapstick so that you start to doubt everything you are told on the show.

Rusty Spanner

I don't like BG from what I've seen and heard - he comes across as a right sanctimonious tool.
Reminds me of a televangelist, or someone who kicks his dog when he thinks no one's looking.

Eh? I'm not a big fan of his by any means, but other than the (very) occasional gush about his christian faith I find him quite agreeable and entertaining to watch. What am I missing?

johndoh - Member

Vic was great - no pissing about and got on with it. But they all did great. The women? Hmmmm, they'd have bailed ages ago without help which is a shame.

If I recall, both teams made their fair share of cock ups. I thought the women coped very well. They made some howlers(getting lost in the jungle and ditching their jerry can), but overall I thought they appeared to be a more coherent group. Editing obviously plays a big part in how these things come across, but I thought the girls did well for the most part.

They'll pick a band of incompatible sociopathic ego-maniacs this time round to make it 'better telly'.

So could be anyone from here 😀

I think there was a bit of staging going on, just enough to keep them well enough to stay on the island and keep the show going. Jerry can miraculously becoming de-contaminated, tins of beans, fishing nets that haven't caught anything for week suddenly producing bountiful supplies of fish, conveniently placed pigs, etc.

I think there was a bit of staging going on,

d'yreckon?

First day, BG shouts I can't can't get the boat near due to the rocks grrrrr, they are going to have to swim to make it, grrrrrrrrr

Next day, medical emergency 'cos that lass passed out and suddenly all the same rocks have disappeared and the boat goes straight to the shore....

Oh look under this tree! Some tins of beans, no label and not rusty and right near camp, how did we miss them before???

In the words of C+C Music factory...

I was wondering during last nights episode why suddenly all the fish had disappeared, clever/dodgy editing I guess but still really enjoyed it.

People now admit to applying for reality TV shows?? Wow, times have changed!

Only when you are positive and enthusiastic on a thread will times have really changed 😉

Never gonna happen! 😆

Fishing, trapping, fires, general backwoods stuff - seems fine to me 🙂
Doing it with a bunch of folk I don't know and getting filmed - sounds like hell.

Doing it with a bunch of folk I don't know [s]and getting filmed[/s] - sounds like hell.

I'd love this. Stripping away every penny, all formal titles, roles, life outside of the island and getting to know the real people alongside you that you rely on.

I wouldn't like the being filmed bit. I'd consciously make sure I was off camera too much.

I'd like to do it, but having Type 1 diabetes will stop it happening

I thought the girls did well for the most part.

It's the most contrived load of shite I've ever seen.

Is it possible to block programmes on free view just in case the second series doesn't get canned like I hope it will?

I'd love this. Stripping away every penny, all formal titles, roles, life outside of the island and getting to know the real people alongside you that you rely on.

Hmmm, maybe.

I would prefer to do it with a few mates I can rely on with good backwoods skills and have done long trips with before. I think it would be very hard even then.

Can I pick who I take, because having to spend time with some of those people would probably be too much - I watched one episode of the men's island and was surprised they didn't eat the Yorkshire bloke after a few days.

I've got a fair bit of experience of being out in the wilderness although I've always been able to take food with me. I'm pretty sure I could get together a group of like minded friends who could make the whole thing quite civilized after a week or so.

I've got a fair bit of experience of being out in the wilderness although I've always been able to take food with me.

BTW can anyone explain to me why the women managed to find Limes and Yucca whilst the men seemed to never do any gathering that wasn't seafood/meat?

The battery life on those go-pros is amazing! 40 Days+

johndoh - Member

Apart from Iron Bru 'washing up on the beach', passing fishermen 'giving them fish', baked beans 'being left by hunters' and having to replace their kindling kit because they wore out their first one. And I am also pretty sure the second pig they trapped was tied up for them to 'capture'.

And the water bottle which miraculously was cleaned after they cleverly used it to store gizzards and halved their water purifying ability, then dumped it. ****ing idiots would not have survived. Also how was that idiotic moaning vegetarian not skeletal having eaten nothing but coconuts and a few yams?

And getting lost so many times. They must have walked miles. 😆 Absolutely dire. They didn't think to make proper shelter until the last few days either it seems.

johndoh - Member

Vic was great - no pissing about and got on with it. But they all did great. The women? Hmmmm, they'd have bailed ages ago without help which is a shame.

I liked him for that at first, but by the mid point I thought the guy was a complete bell. He got some good results with the fishing, but everything had to be done his way, which was brute physical force. No application of the brain. His fault that other bloke fell and busted his arm as well.

He also acted like a complete **** to the posho net fisherman from what I could tell based purely upon stereotyping. At least he manned up and apologised when the guy delivered.

He also acted like a complete **** to the posho net fisherman

DaRC_L - Member

I think I would have some choice words for someone admiring the sunset during a downpour whilst everyone else is working flat out to stop the camp from washing away

He certainly didn't help his case then, but having been alienated and TBH bullied by the self-appointed king swinging ballbag for quite a while by that point, I don't think he really gave a fark and was going to do his own thing whatever happened.

It's the most contrived load of shite I've ever seen.

It makes C4's 'pointing and laughing at poor people' programmes look positively sophisticated

What a load of horseshit

Is it possible to block programmes on free view

I find it quite easy to go and do something else...

The programme has its faults and tbh they did point out that they were draining all the local food available to them. This pointed out the groups experiences/indaquaces- why didn't they explore more sooner? All this makes for good tv because imagine they were all experienced outdoor types who sat down and planned etc etc etc- it'd be bloody dull tv.

They stumbled a fair bit but that was what made the show too.

I think I would have some choice words for someone admiring the sunset during a downpour whilst everyone else is working flat out to stop the camp from washing away

If ever there was a staged shot, that was it.

I think I would have some choice words for someone admiring the sunset during a downpour whilst everyone else is working flat out to stop the camp from washing away

what about the person filming him doing it?

ray mears manages to stay fat and gets boozed up on local hooch.

grylls is skinny and has to resort to drinking his own piss.

I'd take ray as my luxury item.

Well most of the girls looked 10000% more beautiful without the slap they threw on for tonight's reflection programme.

ray mears manages to stay fat and gets boozed up on local hooch.

grylls is skinny and has to resort to drinking his own piss.

I'd take ray as my luxury item.

^the redhead was gorgeous without her hair straightened etc

Yep - the freckly-faced girl was beautiful (is that who you mean?) and the beautician that thought she was Raquel Welch in 1,000,00BC looked bloody awful with the heavy make-up and bleached hair.

Agree, yes and on both counts.

Her body though. hiiiiii-karamba.

When the lads were eating the pig and one said he was going to eat the pigs-dick and remarked that it tasted like dick and one other piped up 'it worries me that you know what dick tastes like'- that was a LOL moment. Funny how when a group of blokes are thrown in together it doesn't take long for the male on male banter to start.

...surprised they didn't eat the Yorkshire bloke

be far too bitter 😆

be far too bitter

I enjoyed the bits I saw to be fair I am pretty sure Bear Gryls did say he'd seeded the island with the croc and pigs. I would expect the programme to do something to ensure that no one died or became seriously at risk form starvation,yet allow the event to continue for it's scheduled length.
My real question is "the island Bear Grylls .....could he"