Man Vs. Wild Actually Not So Wild
PR disaster time for the Discovery Channel. It turns out Man vs. Wild was largely faked, with host Bear Grylls regularly staying at hotels during filming and off-camera assistants staging many of the show’s most dramatic moments. Shocking: reality television faking the reality.
On an episode filmed in the Sierra Nevadas, Grylls went from biting the heads of rattlesnakes during the day to staying at a luxury cabin at The Pines Resort on Bass Lake. The same episode also featured Grylls coming across wild mustangs in a meadow … But the horses were actually bought in by trailer.
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