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  • Will Ferrell Gone Wild: Funnyman to Guest on Discovery Survival Show | Today's News: Our Take | 4/16/2009

    Will Ferrell's new project features perhaps his most outlandish stunt to date: He drinks his own urine.

    Ferrell will appear on a June episode of Discovery Channel's survival series Man vs. Wild, according to Variety. The former Saturday Night Live star and host Bear Grylls will brave the wilds of northern Sweden for 48 hours.

    The duo will rappel down a 100-foot-high frozen waterfall, tandem-abseil off a helicopter and brave the overnight subzero temperatures in a snow shelter. They will also find food in the forest, which they wash down with the aforementioned urine.

    Ferrell said the experience... read more 6 Comments

  • Bear Grylls Has Baby Boy | Today's News: Our Take | 1/16/2009

    It's another boy for Man vs. Wild star Bear Grylls.

    Huckleberry Edward Jocelyne Grylls was born Thursday in England, weighing in at 7 pounds 7 ounces, according to Us Weekly.

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  • Bear Grylls Injured in Antarctica Expedition | Today's News: Our Take | 12/8/2008

    Man vs. Wild host Bear Grylls has been sidelined by the wild. The British adventurer injured his shoulder after a fall on Friday during an Antarctica expedition to promote alternative energy fuels.

    The South Pole adventure was unrelated to his Discovery survival series.

    Grylls was en route back to ...
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  • Bear Gryll's on his Zambian Man vs. Wild "Accident" | Today's News: Our Take | 5/2/2008
    Bear Grylls has survived everything from Saharan heat to Icelandic cold. In tonight’s first new episode of Man vs. Wild (Fridays at 9 pm/ET, Discovery) since December, he endures a stomach-turning trek through Zambia. We talked to the adventurer about hanging tough in Africa. TV Guide: How was Zambia?Bear Grylls: It was wild. We were [in] probably the most remote part of Africa and I got bad heatstroke. I had eaten a bad snake and got quite dehydrated. TV Guide: A bad snake?Grylls: As opposed to "a good snake" to eat? I had eaten a live snake and it had its revenge by crapping down my throat as I ate it. I had really bad diarrhea the next day. I was doing a big climb on a 120-foot cliff face when I suddenly realized I've got to go. I remember hangin read more
  • Man vs. Wild Accused of Being Tamer Than It Lets On | Today's News: Our Take | 7/24/2007
    Discovery Channel is looking into claims that Man vs. Wild doesn't rough it as much as viewers are led to believe. "Discovery Communications has learned that isolated elements of Man vs. Wild in some episodes were not natural to the environment and that for health and safety concerns the crew and host received some survival assistance," the cabler says in a statement cited by the Reporter.An investigation by the U.K.'s Channel 4 found that Man vs. Wild host Bear Grylls retreated to a hotel room on at least two occasions when it was purported that he slept "in the wild." (To be fair, the lodging in question was a Motel 6, so... tomato, tom-ah-to.) Discovery maintains that "moving forward, the program will be 100-percent transparent, and all elements... will be explained to our viewers." read more

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Man vs. Wild (Host) 2006 TV Show Series
Escape to the Legion (Host) 2005 TV Show Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live: Episode (Guest) Episode
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Network: Discovery Channel
Posted: 6/11/2009 Length: 0m 34s
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Man vs. Wild: Emergency Twinkie
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Network: Discovery Channel
Posted: 6/11/2009 Length: 1m 26s
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