Bear Grylls wants Bristol contestants for The Island

Bear Grylls wants Bristol contestants for The Island

Posted on: 08 Jun 2017

Channel 4 is on the lookout for budding survivalists from Bristol to appear on the fifth series of The Island with Bear Grylls. Reckon you have what it takes?

Bear Grylls

The Island with Bear Grylls has been captivating audiences since it first hit screens in 2014, with the extreme survival series noted for its raw content and perpetually accentuating the ‘reality’ of the reality show. It represents an experiment conducted by Bear Grylls, the show’s host, to ascertain how well modern British citizens, with all of their 21st-century amenities, would cope when thrust into a desperately tough situation.

 

The premise is simple: a group ordinary Brits are marooned on a tropical island in the South Pacific and must survive for six weeks, finding their own water source, battling the elements and sticking together in what can be a particularly cruel environment. And, as Bear continually intones, if they want food, they have to catch it, kill it and eat it. Think Big Brother meets Castaway.

Bear Grylls Island

It makes for compelling watching and has produced some fine television moments across its four series, which have grown to include co-gender groups and a mixture of younger and older castaways. Each of the groups consistently face the same struggles of starvation, lack of water, tropical storms and the adverse ecosystem.

 

If this sounds like your cup of tea, then you’re in luck! The show is currently casting for its fifth series, and producers are after participants from Bristol.

 

If you think you’ve got what it takes, email theislandC4@shine.tv to register your interest. The very best of luck!


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Sam Mason-Jones

An ardent Geordie minus the accent, Sam seemingly strove to get as far away from the Toon as possible, as soon as university beckoned. Three undergraduate years at UoB were more than ample time for Bristol (as it inevitably does) to get under his skin, and so here he remains: reporting, as Assistant Editor, on the cultural happenings which so infatuated him with the city. Catch him at sam@365bristol.com.