Ultimate Survivor is fake
One of my favorite shows on the Discovery Channel is called Ultimate Survivor (Man Vs Wild in the States). The show follows a guy called Bear Grylls who gets dropped into the middle of no where and is expected to survive and find his way out. One episode it could be the Rain Forrest, another he could be dropped in the middle of the ocean etc..
So anyway I was researching Bear Grylls and found out there is actually a controversy. It seems the show is not what it appears to be. As a viewer we are led to believe that Bear Grylls is surviving with no help and in the middle of no where but some videos have popped up on YouTube showing otherwise. Even though he really does eat maggots and other absurd things, I can no longer watch the show. It just feels too much like fake wrestling (WWE). So if you’re also a fan of the show and Bear Grylls, sorry I am ruining this for you but its a fake. There is another show on Discovery called Survivorman which I’ve started watching and this one seems to be real and I haven’t found anything online that says otherwise.
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I read this story in The Daily Mail last year- he stays in a htel nearby and there are peole within a stone’s throw of him in case he needs help in the junggle. He justifies it by saying that it shows what jungle life COULD be like…….
Bear Grylls shows is indeed fake, he apologized for misleading viewers on BBC channel 4 last year:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7304617.stm
BOTH OF THEM ARE FAKE!! It’s no rocket science! So obvious no one can service alone out there, it’s all show biz!!!!!
WRESTLING IS NOT FAKE !!!
J/K :p
First picture of him eating raw Zebra meat makes me queasy.
My question is who is the producer of the program ? is it discovery channel? coz if it is then the whole channel will become fake to me .. !
servivorman is really intersting show .. but my favourite one is timewrap .
I always think about the camera crew and all the people that are behind the camera and scenes while shows like these go on, it kinda ruins the illusion of the whole thing if you know what I mean. If you watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou you’ll know what I mean.
Well Survivorman is different since the guy carries around 9 cameras himself, no crew. They drop him off and then pick him up like a week later or something.
OMG
i used to believe it
i didn’t thought that discovery will cheat
shame on them
”My question is who is the producer of the program ? is it discovery channel? coz if it is then the whole channel will become fake to me .. !
servivorman is really intersting show .. but my favourite one is timewrap .”
Well we HAVE discovered something, haven’t we? That it is all fake!
For who is wondering about the show (timewrap) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0-TbUUXDtM
you call this news? is People magazine your source of world news?
well when i check cnn and bbc i dont check the entertainment section, more interested in the news thats why i am there. so if i post entertainment news on my blog thats a year old deal with it
Yeah survivorman is quite really, I liked that show, shame its over, unless they make another session. What session are they showing on Discovery, anyone ?
I have no idea what’s going on, I meant; season*. Quite real**
Slow morning, last day of the week.
i knew it was ake when i saw it. first of all how can the camera man follow him without even trying to help him. second of all some episodes proved to be wrong.
I really don’t believe anything on TV anyways. However, I only watch the show because they do give good information about what to do in case you are in the similar situation. I don’t mean like being stranded in the Rain Forest I mean more like forgetting something on a camping.
lol yeah Mark ..relax. Stop getting defensive. We still like your articles. chill!!
I noticed that most of the media mentioned was American. So I guess we do make the world go round! :)
Survivor man is real..(if your talking about the british guy),the guy practically has to set up cameras and shit himself…
Oh like Discovery will care what 24am and its readers think if it’s fake or not lolol :D
First picture…*vomit*
Id rather die than eat raw ZEBRA meat
I don’t think the point is for him to be doing this stuff without help. he’s supposed to be teaching other people what to do if they are stuck in a survival situation.
He only shows how can we survive far away from the civilization. Of course there are many poeple behind Bear Grylls they are look out his ass :)!
i realy liked it.
i think i am going to wachit any way.
but it is realy disapointing
It is too obvious that he has at least 5 people or so looking after him… when he gets into a river with falls, there is at the same scene 3 different angle shots (whose cameras don’t seem to find having a good shot as hard as he finds just surviving) and even a helicopter take. So yes, It’s a TV show, which doesnt neccesarily means that the program is crap, is very informative (If what he says is true)
This show… this educational program, is to provide people with suitable number of information on the topic “Lost” or “Stranded” if you will. Not to make the instructor (Bear Grylls) hurt him self or even worse. I really enjoy watching this show, and THANK YOU BEAR !!
Showing the ways one can make it out in the not so hospitable environment it’s a gift! An survivor course for free!!
So what if some one is there to help him!?
Regards to all the people working on this show !!
S H A M E ! ! !
its fake. shame on Discovery channel.
i really liked that show
shame
It’s unfortunate that this blog comes up first on the search for “Ultimate Survivor” since you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. The show has never alluded to Bear being alone and in fact he regularly speaks to and helps one of the cameramen. There’s obviously an entire team behind him, and in fact, the show explicitly states that Bear is assisted in life-threatening situations by the crew.
Yes, it’s a TV show and so by default it is over-dramatized. However, all that you see is real and in many cases where the crew assists him, no effort is made to hide the fact.
As for Ultimate Survivor vs Survivorman, while views may differ on this one, but I feel utterly disappointed by Survivorman. Having grown up in South Africa on a farm, I can assure you that his “skills” (or rather the lack thereof) are substandard by a long shot. While some may regard his reasoning of attempting different “real-life possibility” survival situations, he almost always takes the easy route out when it comes to things like making fire – come on, a flare and petroleum? Hardly a feat by any measure. Most disappointingly, he seemingly always fails at catching any live food. Although it might look rigged, the frequency at which Bear Grylls catches live food is a far more realistic interpretation of survival, provided you’re not a total moron.
Anyhow, I digress. Fact of the matter is, Ultimate Survival is a TV show meant to entertain its audiences, which clearly it does, based on its sheer volume of viewers. What transpires behind the scenes is not some black magic and trickery, and for those who are curious about his feats, there are ample behine-the-scenes videos available on the web.
It’s still real to me dammit!
I’m very surprised to all this rumour. It’s so obvious there is a crew all the time with Bear that I haven’t even thought that anyone would be misleaded that he pretends to be alone. It’s obvious to me that there are people to help him. It’s a show, he shows us things but he don’t want to die while making movie. I’m wathing it with pleasure.
this program is maybe a fake but in this Ultimate Survival there is write that program only shows how you can survive in the dangerous situation in live like this. they didn’t ever say it’s for real. They only shows how peple could survive in this forests and deserts etc.And the other way all TV-Shows have some fake in itself. If you like watch programs like this, you just watch it and enjoy it.
Let’s see… It’s just educational. I think one of the first rules in surviving is not to get into danger on purpose. The show’s use is to teach you what you should do if you ever get on those situations… I guess you would appreciate the info when you are lost somewhere and knowing that eating yourself it’s not an option…
The point of the show isn’t not wether is fake or real.. Skill reduces chances to die, but the danger is still there, Bear Grylls knows that.
if you imagine that someone would risk his own life just to show others how not to, you’re wrong. everything on TV is fake. every show has a director, a producer etc. every show must be profitable.
I heard that he filmed one show in the mountains of Romania – CARPATHIANS MOUNTAINS – where every year several tourists get killed by bears. you wonder why? Because in Romania alone are many more bears than in the whole europe togheter. this is some adresses to watch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxZdTappe-E&feature=fvsr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLMh7O5pJk0&feature=fvsr ) . also you must know that a beart kills with single strike; it doesn’t give you a second chance. Now think of all oher countries with all their dangerous places and how risky is it to live in the wild. and again: don’t think that other shows are not faked.
How could anyone believe that a TV show such as this would be 100% real?
No TV show will ever be 100% real, and even less, one like this, Bear is only showing you ways to survive if you faced the extreme conditions that his programme shows you.
You can’t honestly expect him to seriously put his life at risk, that is not what the programme is for for christs sake, it is only a documentary, like many others. It is a good, educational, and entertaining programme, nothing more, and nothing less. Bear hasn’t cheated on the audience, in any case, he has simply done his job.
Thanks for a great prog Bear Grylls, keep up the good work!.
I really love the show and I want to work there.
Remember the show just show you how to survive in case you’ll be in a situation like that.
The problem is the super information we have every body wants to know everything like how was it made (making off) I don’t care about that. I just enjoy the show and all the places and all the landscapes.
Thanks to Discovery, thanks to Bear Grylls and thaks to all the crew.
If you need a strong guy to work with you just contact me.
Keep’n going
it is indeed a fake, which is also explained on the Discovery WEBSITE!!! All this serie does (like explained before) is explain what COULD happen in a bad situation and give some tips on what to do, should you end up in a situation like that!
And indeed, TV is never 100% real -_-
But the show is made to show you how should you act if find your self in simulare situation..so it is important to know..all those plants, animals, and shelters. It is not based to make him suffer, but to learn you do the same thing ;)
Ultimate survivor is the best show on discovery channel.They in no way state that he is alone.I mean who must hold the camera when he is doing a stunt.They state clearly that there is help for him when needed.I mean they cant have a man dieing on the show.
Survivorman is a load of crap.He lights a fire with a flare or maybe a box of matches or a zippo.Then he opens up a tent he brought with. he shows you no survival techniques whatsoever.It’s a joke
I think that he only showing how to survive but not actualy suviving every time.
the last movie is okey… sometimes in the start of the program it stand… Bear G… bla bla bla….. sometimes he need to get help/asistant—> bad English sorry.
Of course there is a team behind him. Even with this kind of knowledge you have very little chance that you would survive and he survived like 100 times. He shows how you would survive, that doesn’t mean you will make it. When you are in situation like this, you have to fight to survive, so why would he put him self in this kind of situation when it’s not safe? So he has back up behind him. I knew, before that it’s “fake”
First sorry for my english. I think it isn’t good then he almost every time talks about how he’s lost and really fucked up. Because then it’s fake. Every little bit clever man must know after few series that he must be protected from somewhere. But think about that situations the he is twenty meters from bear or then he was in mangroves, water to breast and crocodyle can be everywhere. This can’t be fake situations and makes him real master. I think most important is then you hungry to death you can eat anything. Raw, living, rotting. Drink piss or where you can drink dirty but not contaminated water. And certainly orientation without map or compas too. That’s the most important for survive and he’s going to show you everything.
So what if the show is fake? The tips he gives are not. I’ve learn a lot from watching the episodes I’ve seen. Mostly because not only do I get to learn how the environment are in different countries but how I know at least what to do or what to look for if you get lost. Also he have taught me some good ways of collecting water and such.
And of course I knew from the start, that he weren’t alone and lost, the had a freaking camera crew with him! But again, the tips are very good and might save someone.
Did You use to blow up an atom bomb in the school, while your teacher teach You about it, or it was enough to believe that is quite dangerous?
Guys, maybe u did not watch and listen to what Bear Grylls says, of course he gets help from his crew, as he says in one episode in Siberia “the guys helped me make a hole in the ice” he wanted to go underwater and show us how it is like there, if u though that he is there alone, then u are foolish, Bear Grylls was a member of the Special Forces and i bet he can go out there with no one esle and survive.
The tips are life saviour, I love his show.