A former member of the British Army’s Special Air Service, Grylls lives with his family on a private island in Wales (where there is no electricity). Grylls’ rugged public persona has also bellied his personal wealth. In subsequent episodes Grylls directly addresses the crew, and in the interest of transparency, each season featured a making-of episode. and Discovery began airing it with a disclaimer allowing that Grylls was not in fact left alone to survive in the wild. In 2007, the show was briefly taken off the air in the U.K. But the show was beset with early controversies when it was revealed that some of Grylls’ escapades were enhanced or staged and that Grylls spent nights in local motels while he was purportedly left alone to fend for himself on a deserted island. Jake Gyllenhaal, Will Ferrell and Ben Stiller have tagged along on some of Grylls’ adventures. Wild” (which averaged 1.1 million viewers on Discovery last season) have earned him numerous celebrity admirers. In other words, this guy isn’t going to have to dig up live worms for dinner anytime soon. Wild” video game, he has an iPhone app, and his clothing line is sold at REI and Walmart. He’s landed numerous endorsement deals including with Dockers and Degree deodorant.
in May - already is a best-seller in England and Australia. His memoir “Mud, Sweat and Tears” - due to be published in the U.S. He’s written nearly a dozen books, many of them survival guides. Grylls, 37, has parlayed his fame as an extreme outdoorsman into an international media career. In 2010, the network sued Deadliest Catch captains Jonathan and Andy Hillstrand for allegedly failing to complete work on the spinoff “Hillstranded.” The $3 million lawsuit prompted the Hillstrands and captain Sig Hansen to quit, though a month later the dispute was settled, the suit was dropped and all three returned to work on the show. This is not the first time Discovery has had a disagreement with its talent. Wild.” Grylls, who joined the show when it launched launched in 2006, was fired by Discovery after he refused to participate in two unannounced projects he was contracted for, say sources. Wild’ – The Mercury Newsīear Grylls has eaten his last piece of raw meat for the Discovery Channel.ĭiscovery Channel has terminated its relationship with Grylls, the British television personality and star of the network’s “Man vs.
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