One of my favorite shows is the Discovery Channel’s Man vs Wild and I think the wife has a crush on it’s host Bear Grylls. Hell, I do too, he’s the man.

Well, there was this recent BBC report that Man vs Wild is staged and Bear isn’t a real survivorman. The report says that Bear is basically a sissy who let the production company do all the work why he was chillin’ in a hotel. Apparently, Man vs Wild was picked up by a BBC channel whose viewers are upset about being misled that Bear’s adventures weren’t unaided.

Channel 4 is to investigate a claim that it misled viewers in a survival series, in the latest allegation of reality being manipulated on a TV show.

First off, I just have to laugh. Leave it to the Brits to get teed off about something like this. First off Bear has a camera crew with him, how can anyone think that he has zero interaction with them? Secondly, no one says that he does things exactly how you should do them, most of the time he is putting himself in extreme situations so that if you happen to find yourself in a similar situation, you may not freak out as bad. If you want to know exactly what to do, get a Boy Scout’s Field Guide. Thirdly, he may have had helped building things or finding his way but I don’t see any help for him when he’s swimming in the glacier water or jumping off rock clifffs. He’s got no chef chocolate coating the bugs he eats or purifying the dung-water he drinks.

Its an entertaining show but apparently some people can’t determine the difference between reality and Reality-Tv!