Some stars like Sean Penn can’t be bothered to do much of anything to promote their movies. Mostly because their pricks. But Hugh Jackman has been promoting “Wolverine” (which is actually really GD good) like a madman, and now Will Ferrell has even topped that by going on a two-day expedition in Sweden with Bear Grylls. The episode of “Man vs. Wild” will air in early June, just before Ferrells “Land of the Lost” opens.
Armed with only the most basic survival equipment, Grylls took Ferrell through the paces of real life survival in the ice-bound mountain and glacier ranges in the far north of Sweden. Typical of the series, Grylls showed the actor what it takes to find food in the forests. They even drink their own urine and bite into reindeer eyeballs. They tandem-abseiled off of a helicopter, rappelled down hundred foot frozen waterfalls, improvised snow shoes from saplings and built a shelter to stay warm overnight in freezing temperatures.
Still sounds like Will got lucky. Bear has done way worse than drinking urine. I realize some of the show is staged but most of it is stuff you can’t fake. Like his rugged masculinity and smoothly muscled torso. Wait, oh crap, did I type that or just think it? Oh jeez, which of these buttons is “delete” and which one is “publish”?
Bear Grylls stages part of his show "Man vs Wild" of course, but he's graduated from Eton and the University of London, earned a second dan black belt in Shotokan karate, served three years in the UK Special Forces and only left when he did because his parachute ripped on a jump one day in Africa and he broke his back. He rehabbed for 18 months, then climbed Mt Everest, the youngest person to ever do so. He did all this before he was even 24. I couldn’t buy a soft taco when I was 24. Adding to all this is that he has a son named Marmaduke, and now, a son named Huckleberry. That’s right. Like the cartoon dogs.
The British television host and his wife Shara have welcomed a new pup to their pack – a baby boy born Thursday. The couple's third child, Huckleberry Edward Jocelyne Grylls, weighed in at 7 lbs., 7 oz., according to a rep the star's Discovery Channel series Man vs. Wild.
HE … BIT … THE HEAD … OFF A SNAKE … AND FUCKING ATE IT. He ate the snake. While it was alive. He fashioned a net out of a stick and optimism, then caught a snake and bit off its fucking head. Uh, who gives a shit if he stayed in a motel the night before or gives his kids goofy names, he's still way more man than I'll ever be. Just like Mariah Carey.
