Caça aos Famosos com Bear Grylls

Ok, so picture this, Holly Willoughby and Bear Grylls in Netflix head office and they turn up and say "so we have this idea..." So several celebrities who aren't remotely tough enough for SAS who dares wins and dont want to be humiliated with I'm a celebrity get out of here decide the costa Rican jungle is the place for them... i can't decide if they pitched this as are doing Hunger Games or Anneka Rice's treasure hunt, this show is so confused, so silly, and overly dramatic but somehow I am enjoying watching this pruned and pampered idiots get chased around the jungle! Hide and seek is for winners?

While this is a Netflix show, it's really a show which is very similar to something you would have seen on Channel 4 at some point in your life.

The show is advertised as Bear Grylls hunting down celebrity's in the jungle, but in reality he's just playing hide and seek with them in a closed off area. An area which, as you continue to watch the episodes, you soon realize is very small.

This premise is quite entertaining early on but becomes repetitive by around the third or forth time they do it since the escape roots are the same rotation.

The enjoyment is also ruined the moment it becomes apparent Bear knows exactly where all the exits of the "Bear pit" are, so he just waits close by for the celebrities to come to him.

Each episode could probably be helped by being a little shorter, as other than the odd bits of drama that the daily challenges create, they can feel a bit long as we continuously hear over an over about how hot the weather is.

Overall its just ok, something to pass the time if you want something easy to watch, but i cant help feel like it could have been a lot more than it is.

I mean it's obviously scripted and not real. They can "evade" bear if they choose but there is no way the production crew would let them do that. Walk 50m in a random direction in the pit and then lie down and cover themselves with leaves and branches would have a 100% success rate of evading capture, but no way they would be allowed to do that.

Other than watching a bunch of unfit old incapable "celebs" wander around aimlessly not understanding what they are doing, there is not much to see here.

It's noise in the background while you do something else, I personally was baking some amazing food, good background noise.

Also as an aside, when did men become so pathetic and incapable of handling anything?

However, it's nothing short of scripted false nonsense. Z List celebrities with zero people skills or like-ability sitting around arguing or pretending to be chased by a disinteresting Bear Grylls. Even he looks like he can't be bothered with the show. Had any aspect of this show be realistic or unscripted then it would be a delight. Unfortunately it's a big thumbs down.

Many of the celebrities appearing on the show are rude, narcissistic and difficult to watch. Mel B needs to give up and call it a day in the spotlight. Her 5 minutes of fame in the 90s are well and truly over and her desperation for relevance makes this show even drearier.

I did actually enjoy the show for the most part. Not sure what the point was in having Holly Willougby there though. She didn't do anything and her links were totally unnecessary and sometimes annoying. Would have been better to have a voiceover from someone like Vernon Kay or someone else with some charisma.

I guess you are supposed to ignore the fact that the camera team would obviously give away the location of the celebritys but still watched all of the episodes. Quite liked the choice of celebrities taking part. Shirley Ballas in particulary was very good and showed what a nice lady she is as well as demonstrating what keeping fit in your later years can do for you.