The Island Series 3 press pack

The Island with Bear Grylls, the ultimate survival challenge that abandons ordinary Britons on an uninhabited island in the Pacific, is back for a third series this Spring.

135,000 people thought they could handle the challenge but just 16 were finally chosen to take part. But in an El Nino year those 16 will face a long, hard battle against extreme weather conditions, environmental hazards and severely limited resources.

In an unexpected twist for many of the men and women, the experiment will break new ground by dropping eight members of each gender on the same land mass – but on different sides, blissfully unaware of the other’s existence unless they manage to find the other group of their own accord.