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3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls - The Islanders

THE ISLANDERS MARCO - 30-year-old former Royal Marines Commando who lives in Sunderland. After six years in the military, he is now working as a wedding photographer and graphic designer. MANO - 42-year-old Paediatric Neurosurgeon working in Northern Ireland ELISSA - 33-year-old writer who lives in

3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls - Programme Synopsis

Hit Channel 4 series The Island with Bear Grylls returns, but this time there’s a twist. For the first time there’s money at stake and it’s everyone for themselves. The reimagined series - Treasure Island with Bear Grylls - will once again see 12 ordinary Brits marooned for 35 days on a remote

3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls: Interview with Bear Grylls

This is the first time you’ve dropped money on to the island, what made you decide to shake up the series in this way? Well this is something I've wanted to do with the show for a while. It's been a natural evolution, you know? With season one the whole premise was just totally original, then we've

3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls: Interview with Marco

Why did you want to do Treasure Island? In all honesty, I wanted to do it for the money, as soon as they said the money was going to be on the island, that caught my attention. I wasn’t bothered about the survival side of things because as someone who has just left the military, I was used to all

3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls: Interview with Mano

Why did you want to go on Treasure Island? I love a challenge. I've achieved a lot in my job and my career and then I really felt that I had to know if I can do this. Can I actually do the things that so few people in the world have done? So it was probably the mental challenge of it. Maybe it’s a

3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls: Interview with Elissa

Why did you want to do Treasure Island? I really wanted the challenge! I’ve done the show before called Desperate Scousewives and I didn’t want to be painted as this airhead from that show. I’m actually not the glamour puss that they made me out to be on that show. That image has followed me around

3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls: Interview with Emily

Why did you want to go on Treasure Island? Me and my husband were watching the celebrity version and at the end Bear asked if anybody wanted to do the show themselves because they were taking applications now. I said to my husband that I was going to apply and he made a bit of a joke about it which

3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls: Interview with Jim

Why did you want to go on Treasure Island? My niece watches the programme avidly and she rung me up saying, "Oh, I put you up for Bear Grylls' The Island." I was like, "Oh, yeah, whatever." She was, "You've just got to do a little video clip," and I was like, "Yeah, okay, why not?”. The reality of

3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls: Interview with Cat

Why did you want to go on Treasure Island? I’ve watched the show for a few years and I was critical so I thought, “Do you know what, I should probably just do it and see what happens. At that point in life I was probably having a quarter life crisis, whereby I just didn't really know what I wanted

3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls: Interview with Morag

Why did you want to go on Treasure Island? Believe it or not I had applied to be on Hunted which I absolutely love but sadly I got down to the last few but didn’t get picked. Then this came up and they asked me whether I wanted to go on the island, I was like, “What? Love Island?” I’d never heard of

3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls: Interview with Irene

Why did you want to go on Treasure Island? I do watch a lot of these kinds of programmes but it actually started off as a bit of a joke because my son-in-law had actually applied. My grand daughter asked him what would be his worst nightmare on the island and he said “If your nan was there!”. I

3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls: Interview with Jack

Why did you want to go on Treasure Island? I love this kind of stuff. My idea of going on a holiday would be to just go out with my friends and go in the woods, make fires and live in the wild for a while. It's something that I've always loved doing, I love all outdoor sports, I love walking around

3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls: Interview with Ivar

Why did you want to go to Treasure Island? Well I think maybe it was a sort of an on-going mid-life crises! I worked in South America in my twenties as a geologist and so I’ve spent a lot of time in the jungle and I spent a lot of time in rough, rural environments, camping on the beach, camping in

3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls: Interview with Ben

Why did you want to do Treasure Island? I just wanted to push myself. Whether that be marathons or climbing mountains, I wanted something that was really going to push me to my limits. The last time I attempted a marathon I never saw it through because mentally I wasn't in the strongest frame of

3 Sep 19 Press Pack Article
Treasure Island With Bear Grylls

Treasure Island with Bear Grylls: Interview with Ruby

Why did you want to go on Treasure Island? For me, it was just that I'm like at the peak of my physical fitness and I just thought, something like this is just never, ever going to come around again. You can't pay for an experience like that. So for me, when I saw the applications open I went for it