Fun & Famous
15 X CRAZY THINGS YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT BEAR GRYLLS
When too much dumb television bellows into my living room, I fall back on that one certainty in life: there is something to discover on Discovery Channel. Okay, okay, those pawn shops are sometimes even more tasteless than Sun, Booze, Hospital, but let's forget that for a moment. When Running Wild with SAS soldier Bear Grylls is on, it's ultimate enjoyment. A primal man running through the bush with some Hollywood good looks in tow. You have to love it. Therefore: 15 crazy things you didn't know about this running package of survival tactics.
1. He went to couples therapy when he had just gotten married, to make sure he would get everything out of his marriage. Uhuh, almost as strategic as his survival techniques.
2. Melanie B. aka Scary Spice peed on Bear's hand after he was stung by a jellyfish. Lacking a well-filled bladder of his own, Mel came to the rescue. Apparently. America wouldn't be America if this wasn't carefully blurred and edited.
3. He went out with Barack Obama and tricked the Secret Service by saying that they thought Obama couldn't do it. ‘I will prove them wrong,’ were the heroic words of Mister President. Just before he threw himself off a cliff hundreds of meters deep.
4. When Bear's wife saw what he was consuming on a trip (liquid from a sheep's stomach, wriggling critters, animals with new living organisms inside, and poop), she gave him a deworming treatment before he could come back inside. In the form of the pills their dog also got, does the job, right?
5. In the wild, you don't see it, but when Bear Grylls puts on a suit, his left eye is in your right trouser pocket. Or am I seeing that wrong?
6. He is the chief of British youth scouting and the living proof that no one gets away with such a scarf and scouting outfit.
‘I will prove them wrong’
7. Grylls is party Guinness. He put together the highest dinner in a hot air balloon, is the youngest Chief Scout ever, and set the very first record for the longest freefall.
8. Bear's real name is actually Edward. But yeah, that sounds less catchy. His sister gave him the nickname when he was one week old, something with foresight?
9. He has a fanbase that makes you feel jealous. I mean: one point three million followers on Insta (1.3 MILLION).
10. Evil tongues claim that he sometimes books a hotel on the road. But hello, if you dissect a sheep to use the skin as a blanket, then that can be forgiven just once.
11. Bear has three sons. And we call them: Jesse (totally doable), Marmaduke, and Huckleberry… Uh, Bear. You surely never read this post?
12. The ultimate survivor broke his back in three places when his parachute tore at 500 meters high. It cost him his job at the SAS, but eighteen months later he climbed Mount Everest.
13. Grylls made sure we could witness the hotness of Zac Efron in the wild. Including many shirtless scenes. Thanks, just THANK.
14. Okay, is there anything tasty on the menu today? Then just skip this point. Bear's three-course dinner on route looks a bit different. An eyeball for starters, a raw snake bite as a main course, an insect mousse as a side dish with a bloody liver, and all that accompanied by a lukewarm glass of urine with a poisonous spider on the side. Bon appétit.
15. And I always think: but seriously Bear, your cameraman. And did you know that man is wrapped from head to toe in knee-elbow-back-head-whatever protection? That's still 0.0001 percent less chance that he will crash due to Bear's antics.
