Will Ferrell
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...
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Bear Grylls
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
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 Grylls, Man vs. Wild
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
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Man Vs. Wild host, Bear Grylls courtesy Discover Channel
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."
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As summer sets in and I feel the need to lighten my TV-viewing load, I find myself casually and occasionally watching shows that both boggle my mind with their pointlessness and intrigue me with the bizarre and neurotic behavior that comes along with their casts. Aside from my weekly summer regulars like Entourage, Hidden Palms (can we say O.C. wannabe?), and The Starter Wife (which I don't quite love as much as I had hoped to), I feel like I've wasted years of my life getting caught up in the disaster that is Reunited: The Real World Las Vegas. Now, for any fans out there who have dedicated themselves to the alternate universe that is The Real World, you have to admit that this was a pretty genius idea on MTV's part. Bringing back this rowdy crew for another round of late-night shenanigans in The Palms Casino was sure to start fires and force uncomfortable exes to cohabitate. It's only the second week and Irulan is already crying in hysterics about having dinner with Alton. And Ari...
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Bear Grylls, Man vs. Wild
Having recovered from a broken back to successfully climb Everest, it's safe to say that Bear Grylls is one resilient dude. Now, on Discovery Channel's Man vs. Wild (new episodes premiere Friday at 9 pm/ET), the former British special-forces member is getting himself into — and then out of — some hairy situations.
TV Guide: How'd Man vs. Wild come about? Bear Grylls: Well, I did a TV series for British TV on what it was like to join the French Foreign Legion and go through basic training, and that was quite popular over here. And on the back of that, Discovery said, "Come and do something for us." For me, it was the perfect blank canvas [on which] to paint a fun picture. So I said, "Why don't we parachute me into lots of cool places with very little, and sort of film the adventure?"
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