It would take a brave soul to strip off and bare all for new reality show Naked and Afraid.
Deposited in the jungle without food
and water, their breath jagged and shallow, and their nerves on edge,the
contestants come face to face with hyenas and poisonous snakes, with one
muttering: 'God, we're so screwed'.
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| Grimy: The contestants on Naked and Afraid had never met before being teamed up to survive in the jungle. Kim Shelton and Shane Lewis can't hide their exhaustion |
Six strangers were put together for
the Discovery show, debuting on Sunday, and stranded in the wilderness.
And despite all being experienced
survivalists, they're still scared senseless as another admits: 'This is one
nasty place...I'm naked in the land of venomous snakes!'
Naked and Afraid is billed as taking
'survival of the fittest' to the next level - and dubbed 'the Everest of
survival challenges'.
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| Brave: A contestant goes diving for dinner on Naked and Afraid, which starts on Sunday night.ht. |
Each week, a new pair of complete
and total strangers - one man and one woman - will find themselves stranded in
and, quite literally, exposed to some of the world's most extreme weather
environments.
Each duo will be left high and dry
with no food, no water and and no clothes. They must survive on their own for a
full 21 days, with nothing but one personal item each.
The dramatic trailer says that
humans can only go three days without water - with the human body beginning to
shut down after three weeks without food.
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| Desperate to eat: Kim Shelton struggles in the jungle |
And contestants are seen desperately
scrambling for something to eat, with one woman seen killing a fish as her
partner yells 'chop its head off', as tells it 'you're my dinner.'
While another kills a snake, telling
the camera: 'It will still bite you even though I cut its damn head off.'
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| Nightlinger struggles in the jungle |
The contestants are:Shane Lewis, 40,
an electrician from Connecticut who has backpacked around the world. He grew up
in foster care and had to adapt to constantly-changing living circumstances.
He took off midway through his
college education to backpack across the world and has now been to over seventy
countries.
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| 'Naked and afraid': Survivalists Kellie Nightlinger and Erroll James Snyder on the upcoming reality show 'Naked and Afraid' on the Discovery Channel |
Shane's teamed up with student Kim
Shelton, 22, from Minnesota, who grew up in England but spent every summer in
remote Minnesota and has been to wilderness awareness school for two years
EJ Snyder, 46, from North Carolina,
is a military and survival expert who joined the military aged 19 and is now
retired.
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| EJ Snyder and Kellie Nightlinger |
He's paired up with Kellie
Nightlinger, 38, an adventure guide from Alaska, who worked in law enforcement
and as a rock minor. She is now a guide for glacier and whale watching
adventures - and once survived in the Everglades for a week by herself, even
being harpooned by an alligator.
Jonathan Klay, 36, a former Marine
and bodyguard from LA joined Alison Teal, a 27-year-old surfer and filmmaker
from Hawaii who currently lives in a Robinson style grass hut that she built
with her parents over the last 20 years.
Survival instructor and country and
western singer-songwriter Clint Jivoin, 24, from Indiana, says that ninety
percent of his diet comes from his own hunting and wild edible plants; however,
he is adamant in his disdain for sport hunting: “Disgusting and despicable; if
you kill it, then you’d better eat it.”
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| Clint Jivoin and Laura Zerra |
And Clint was teamed up with Laura Zerra, 27, from New Hampshire, a taxidermist and survival instructor, who has a love of danger and has hitchhiked her way around Mexico.
Billy Berger, 39, a writer from
Georgia who loves deer hunting joins Ky Furneaux, a 39-year-old award-winning
stuntwoman from LA, who grew up in the Australian Outback - and who vowed to
spend most of her time outside after breaking her back in a car accident.
Tattoo artist Puma Cabra, 38, from
Nevada, was a professional snowboarder and could then disappear for multiple
days with nothing but his knife and his knowledge. He has encountered mountain
lions and pulled himself out of six avalanches.
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| Puma Cabra and Julie Wright |
He joins Julie Wright, 30, a
wilderness instructor from Washington, who has happily lived off the land.
Nightlinger said she had been starving after spending two weeks in the wild when she devised an innovative way to catch fish using her private parts as bait and then trapping her meal between her legs.
‘We needed something with protein
and because the water was so muddy, traditional fishing methods wouldn’t work,
so I had to improvise, adapt and overcome,’ said Nightlinger.
During the night time, the female
survivalist and her partner on the show, E.J. Snyder, a retired Army veteran,
used a fire that they lit by rubbing sticks together to keep hyenas away.
‘They were frightening, but at least
they seemed to be afraid of fire,’ she told the Daily News, as EJ is seen to
see hyena paw prints, adding: 'This is a hyena print, if there's one, there's
more.
Other episodes of ‘Naked and
Afraid’, featuring different nude paired up strangers, have been filmed in
Panama, Costa Rica, the Maldives and Borneo.
‘I think the challenge brings out the very best and very worst,’ the show’s executive producer Steve Rankin told the Daily News from a hospital bed in Costa Rica where he was recovering after being bitten hours earlier by a venomous snake while working on the show.
‘The idea here is to push the ball
down the field,’ Discovery channel executive, Craig Coffman has said: Survival
shows are so common now that it’s gotten more and more difficult to convince
the audience that what they’re watching is something extreme.
‘Having no clothes just takes it to
the next level. It’s the ultimate test and makes survival exponentially more
difficult.’
culled from DAILY MAIL
Tune in Sunday, June 23rd at
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