For interest, in his blog Bear comments on the press reports and gets support from other explorers, including Sir Ranulph Fiennes
http://beargrylls.blogspot.com/
But he doesntr actually "deny" the fakery.
Re: the recent press accusations of motels and stagings in the show that have been doing the rounds, all I can say is they don't always tell the full story, but that’s life and part of being in the public eye I guess.
The upshot is we’re determined to make all new shows more inclusive of the crew and their role. Discovery and Channel 4 will also include a disclaimer at the start of the show so there's no confusion.
Roughly translated... "yeah, it was all faked and I got busted ...but if only you knew the halff of it. Still, better not try it in the next series."
This is worth a look....
http://www.daughtersoftiresias.org/bearwiki/Evidence
And while viewers are led to believe the 'bear' incident is spontaneous, the scene was scripted long in advance. The Mail on Sunday has obtained a script in which the scene is headlined 'Grizzly Attacks Camp'.
You couldn't make it up. :lolI must admit that we were all laughing. It was just so damned funny at the time. I believe they showed the bear in the pilot but that got recut later when the series was renamed to MVW and I think the definitive bear scenes were reduced to a dark shape prowling... it was still the guy in the suit though. At the time we shot it I was kinda thinking that they couldn't possibly expect an audience to believe the attack. Later that evening while we were eating our snacks in the lodge where we stayed (Salmon River Lodge) they reviewed the footage and at that point I knew they were going to try to use it....
Keep in mind that all of this is in that high fake melodrama and heavy music that makes Eddie exciting when he takes a ****. I think he was trying to emulate the Crocodile hunter delivery.