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Mission aborted. The Bear Grylls: Mission Survive TV show has been cancelled by ITV after its second season. Digital Spy reports ITV has confirmed it is done with the survivalist competition. Chin up, Bear Grylls fans. ITV has, "... a number of projects with Bear in the pipeline." When announced, we will let you know.

DJ/model Vogue Williams won the first season of Bear Grylls: Mission Survive. Alex Scott, right-back for Arsenal in the Fa Women's Super League and the England women's national football team, won the second series. Also competing in season two were: Samantha Barks, Michelle Collins, Jason Gardiner, Chelsee Healey, Neil Morrissey, and Stuart Pearce MBE.

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Michelle Collins has signed up for 'Bear Grylls: Mission Survive'. The 53-year-old actress is one of eight celebrities who will take part in the second series of the reality TV show, in which Bear takes them on a 12-day survival mission in Costa Rica, according to the Daily Star. Earlier this year it was revealed that 'Mission Survive' had been renewed for a second season, after the success of the first, which saw DJ and model Vogue Williams beat Olympic athlete Dame Kelly Holmes and ex-England rugby player Mike Tindall to be crowned Bear's Mission Survivor. Speaking about the show, Bear...

Bear Grylls: Mission Survive has been renewed for a second series by ITV.

The adventure show will return in 2016, bringing together another group of celebrities for a 12-day survival mission led by Grylls.

Filmed in Costa Rica, the first series saw DJ and model Vogue Williams beating Olympic athlete Kelly Holmes and former rugby player Mike Tindall in the final.

Missions included abseiling down waterfalls, crossing rapids, wading through swamps and battling razor-sharp vines, while also getting up close to snakes, eating rats and drinking urine.

Grylls said: "I'm so proud of Mission Survive and all it stands for: endeavour, comradeship and overcoming fears.

"For me it is about understanding that sometimes we have to go through genuine adversity to come out the other side better, stronger and more empowered.

"It is such a privilege to get to do it once more with our Bgv, Electus, betty team and here...

Mike Tindall enjoyed eating bugs on 'Bear Grylls: Mission Survive'. The former English rugby player - who is married to Britain's Queen Elizabeth's eldest grandchild, Zara Phillips - revealed he loved taking part in the survival series in the rainforest of Costa Rica because he found the challenges of eating creepy crawlies to be ''interesting''. He confessed: ''I like eating, so trying bugs, worms and maggots was all very interesting.'' However, the 36-year-old sportsman admitted there were some slightly unpleasant delicacies, including an arachnid which he wasn't too eager to taste. He continued: ''A tarantula was more difficult. They don't taste like anything at...

Vogue Williams triumphed over Kelly Holmes and Mike Tindall to win Bear Grylls: Mission Survive.

The ITV reality competition concluded tonight (April 3), with Bear Grylls crowning Williams victorious after 12 days in the jungle.

Mission Survive's Vogue Williams: 'I'd rather eat rats than drink wee'

The four-part final competition began with Grylls challenging all three finalists to climb down a massive 300-foot rock face into a ravine.

Tindall and Williams were able to complete the difficult task without any major trouble, but Olympian Holmes's fear of water caused her to nearly drown.

Although Holmes was able to descend the rock successfully, Grylls's assistant Scott Heffield had to rescue her when she began flailing in the ravine.

Mission Survive's Kelly Holmes: I almost drowned, that was a bit hairy

"That looked nasty," Grylls admitted as he watched Heffield drag Holmes to shore.

Once again proving that there would...

Vogue Williams doesn't have a crush on Bear Grylls anymore after seeing him ''basically p**s into his own mouth''. The blonde beauty travelled to the Costa Rican jungle to take part in his celebrity survival show 'Bear Grylls: Mission Survive' and she admits that while she fancied the adventurer before appearing on the show, after witnessing him urinate into a bottle and then drink it she had a change of heart. She exclusively told Bang Showbiz: ''I think everyone has a little bit of a Bear crush, he's like the uber-man. I don't anymore because now he's my friend and I've seen...

Kelly Holmes, Mike Tindall and Vogue Williams will face each other tonight (April 3) in the Bear Grylls: Mission Survive final.

The showdown airs on ITV as all three do battle in the last round of challenges to be named champion.

Holmes continues to confront her fear of water after abseiling 300 feet down a waterfall into a rockpool and attempting to swim to the other side of it, but faces trouble.

After getting into difficulties, ex-Royal Marine's Commando Scott helps her out of the water as she reveals: "My biggest fear of water is actually drowning and I think I've just experienced what that could be like."

After gathering firewood with Williams and splitting it on a rock, Tindall is left needing stitches when a piece hits him above his eye.

Williams says she feels like it "was [her] fault because [she] told him to do it", before Tindall adds: "I played for...

Mike Tindall enjoyed eating bugs on 'Bear Grylls: Mission Survive'. The former English rugby player - who is married to Britain's Queen Elizabeth's eldest grandchild, Zara Phillips - revealed he loved taking part in the survival series in the rainforest of Costa Rica because he found the challenges of eating creepy crawlies to be ''interesting''. He confessed: ''I like eating, so trying bugs, worms and maggots was all very interesting.'' However, the 36-year-old sportsman admitted there were some slightly unpleasant delicacies, including an arachnid which he wasn't too eager to taste. He continued: ''A tarantula was more difficult. They don't taste like anything at...

We're not sure if there will be a second series of Bear Grylls: Mission Survive yet, but golly, if there is, any celebrities signing up would have to be pretty brave indeed! The first series - which comes to an end on Friday (April 3) - has seen the famous faces involved getting wet, cold, miserable, ill and, of course, drinking their own pee.

Now just three are still standing for the final - Kelly Holmes, Mike Tindall and Vogue Williams. We caught up with Vogue to celebrate her getting so far and chatted about her hardest moments, eating rat lollipops, why her husband Brian McFadden probably wouldn't do as well on the show, and which stars she'd love to see taking on the jungle...

Vogue on... how things could possibly have been worse.

"I'm glad I wasn't afraid of water or heights, because I think those things would have been really hard.

Vogue Williams doesn't have a crush on Bear Grylls anymore after seeing him ''basically p**s into his own mouth''. The blonde beauty travelled to the Costa Rican jungle to take part in his celebrity survival show 'Bear Grylls: Mission Survive' and she admits that while she fancied the adventurer before appearing on the show, after witnessing him urinate into a bottle and then drink it she had a change of heart. She exclusively told Bang Showbiz: ''I think everyone has a little bit of a Bear crush, he's like the uber-man. I don't anymore because now he's my friend and I've seen...

Vogue Williams rummaged through bins while filming 'Bear Grylls: Mission Survive'. The 31-year-old model-and-dj and the actress Emilia Fox were so gripped by hunger when filming the tough reality show, they resorted to desperate measures to try and find extra food. She admitted: ''In the jungle, Emilia and I would actually go and look through the camera crew's bins when no one was around. We would have eaten scraps.'' Despite her slender figure, Vogue loves indulging in her favourite calorific foods. She said: ''The first thing we do on a hangover day is set the alarm and ring Domino's [for pizza]. We spend a...

Vogue Williams rummaged through bins while filming 'Bear Grylls: Mission Survive'. The 31-year-old model-and-dj and the actress Emilia Fox were so gripped by hunger when filming the tough reality show, they resorted to desperate measures to try and find extra food. She admitted: ''In the jungle, Emilia and I would actually go and look through the camera crew's bins when no one was around. We would have eaten scraps.'' Despite her slender figure, Vogue loves indulging in her favourite calorific foods. She said: ''The first thing we do on a hangover day is set the alarm and ring Domino's [for pizza]. We spend a...

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Tonight's the night! It's time for another Red Nose Day with a packed evening of sketches and music all done in the name of charity.

Lenny Henry and Davina McCall kick off the event that includes a Vicar of Dibley special, a new Little Britain sketch featuring Stephen Hawking, and Dermot O'Leary's 24-hour dance marathon. Rowan Atkinson is back as Mr Bean, while comedians Stephen Fry, Miranda Hart and Ben Miller also make an appearance. Musicians will include Sam Smith and Ella Henderson.

Bear Grylls: Mission Survive: ITV, 9pm

Survivalist Bear Grylls hosts this reality show which puts eight celebrities through 12 gruelling days in the jungle.

The six remaining contestants are halfway through their mission, but they'll have to struggle through more bats and mosquitoes and descend more waterfalls to reach their dinner - a fresh pig carcass.

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Vogue Williams missed pizza more than her husband while filming 'Bear Grylls: Mission Survive'. The 29-year-old model recently joined seven other celebrities in Costa Rica to film the tough survival show hosted by adventurer Bear Grylls and though she disliked being apart from spouse Brian McFadden, she found the lack of food harder to cope with. She said: ''I missed Brian. When I wasn't thinking about food, I was thinking about Brian. ''I did miss food the most though - all I wanted was a big pizza.'' Vogue admits the show was both physically and mentally draining, but thinks her husband would have...

Emilia Fox gets swept away and Jamelia has had enough in tonight's (March 6) Bear Grylls: Mission Survive.

The celebrities have to make their way down a set of rapids in Friday's episode, and tensions run high after Grylls is forced to dive in to save Silent Witness's Fox.

Fox was attempting to grab Jamelia's bag when she slipped in and was taken down the river.

The pressures of the jungle are too much for Jamelia too. After a tropical storm and torrential rain, the singer makes it clear she wants out.

She says: "I don't want to do this anymore…I clearly don't get on with them, one of them spoke to me like I was a piece of s**t... I can't do this."

The jungle is also too much for Lewis actor Laurence Fox to handle. He is found walking round the camp at 3am in a 'sense of delirium'.

Laurence Fox thought he was being robbed by elves after falling ill while filming 'Bear Grylls: Mission Survive'. The 'Lewis' actor has confessed he began hallucinating that ''little people'' were stealing from him after he fell ill with a fever while trekking through the Costa Rican jungle for the ITV survival show. He shared: ''I fell asleep and then I was convinced there were these tiny little people trying to steal things from our rucksacks. ''I was shivering really badly and then I started panicking.'' The 36-year-old star - who has been seen clashing with fellow contestant and 'Loose Women' panellist Jamelia on the...

Vogue Williams missed pizza more than her husband while filming 'Bear Grylls: Mission Survive'. The 29-year-old model recently joined seven other celebrities in Costa Rica to film the tough survival show hosted by adventurer Bear Grylls and though she disliked being apart from spouse Brian McFadden, she found the lack of food harder to cope with. She said: ''I missed Brian. When I wasn't thinking about food, I was thinking about Brian. ''I did miss food the most though - all I wanted was a big pizza.'' Vogue admits the show was both physically and mentally draining, but thinks her husband would have...

Max George cleans up and Vogue Williams gets dirty in newly-released pictures from tonight's (February 27) Bear Grylls: Mission Survive.

The celebrities have to make their way through a ravine in Friday's episode, and tensions run high without Bear Grylls around to help.

Grylls does make an appearance as he helps Williams apply mud to her body to repel bugs, while also feeding the group live scorpions.

Jamelia is none too pleased with the prospect of having to chomp on a dangerous insect, while George seems much more relaxed as he takes a quick bath.

Contestants will also have to manoeuvre their way down a dangerous waterfall, with the reward being an opportunity to drink their own urine.

All of the action leads up to the first celebrity being eliminated – but who will it be?

Bear Grylls: Mission Survive airs tonight at 9pm on ITV.

The celebrity contestants on Bear Grylls: Mission Survive are faced with drinking their own urine in a preview from Friday night's eye-opening episode (February 27).

Jamelia, Vogue Williams, Emilia Fox and Laurence Fox retched repeatedly during the tough survival task, but comedy actor Tom Rosenthal knocked his back with ease and even commented that it "genuinely tasted quite nice, like tea".

Former rugby player Mike Tindall also seemed to take it in his stride.

"It's mind over matter," Grylls barked as the star competitors spluttered and experienced difficulty in swallowing their wee.

"It's not fun, it's not pleasant but all of you were solid," he added before announcing that Tom had come first in the task.

The ITV show began last week (February 20), and saw eight famous faces being dropped into the Costa Rican jungle and made to trek for miles.

The latest episode sees the stars having to navigate their...

Jamelia has said that people have called her a wimp after her appearance on Bear Grylls: Mission Survive.

The 34-year-old singer added that she has become "more fearful" as she has grown older.

On today's Loose Women, she said of appearing on the programme: "I don't regret doing it. I've walked away with so many valuable lessons. I think the most important one is learning how to deal with fear, feel it and do it anyway."

She also said that she was "embarrassed" and that she looked "awful" on the ITV show.

"My Twitter obviously went mad, people were saying I was such a wimp and blah blah," she said. "I do agree it comes across like that but I wasn't walking through Tesco's, screaming at beans! I was being thrown out of a helicopter, it's a very extreme situation."

She added that she used to be "petrified" of horses,...

We love a Bear Grylls show, so throw eight celebrities into the mix and things are bound to be good, right? That was ITV's hope with Mission Survive, which saw eight famous faces being literally dropped (like, from a helicopter) into the Costa Rican jungle and forced to trek for miles.

The stars really did seem to be tested, from their scary leap into a lake from said helicopter - something hydrophobic Dame Kelly Holmes found particularly difficult - to their attempts to retrieve food, start fires and even hang hammocks.

Some of them seemed to take to the whole thing more than others - Vogue Williams was very handy with a tent, thanks to her two construction degrees - while others struggled, a lot. Like Jamelia, who was terrified of everything from horses to spiders to climbing, and even managed to accidentally burn her bra on night one.

Max George...

New images from Bear Grylls: Mission Survive have been released.

A team of celebrities face the brutal challenges of nature on the new ITV show.

Mission Survive's Bear Grylls: It's I'm a Celeb on steroids, multiplied

The likes of Jamelia, Dame Kelly Holmes and Mike Tindall take on a 12-day survival task on the show.

Grylls recently admitted to being "nervous" about his new show - because he was worried about "breaking" the celebrities involved.

The outdoor expert made a 'smashing' entrance when he arrived at the This Morning studio last week to discuss the show.

Bear Grylls: Mission Survive begins tonight (February 20) at 9pm on ITV.

Watch a trailer for Bear Grylls: Mission Survive below:...

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The King is invited to view the solar eclipse at the chateau of famous astronomer Marmion, but the man has a dark motive behind the invite.

Rochefort and a trio of musketeers escort the king to Marmion's castle, but when the trap is sprung, will they be enough?

Bear Grylls: Mission Survive: ITV, 9pm

A new celebrity gameshow begins tonight, fronted by TV's resident wilderness survivor Bear Grylls.

Faces such as Emilia Fox, Jamelia, The Wanted's Max George and Dame Kelly Holmes must learn to lighting fire and making shelters. A bit like Channel 5's 10,000 BC, but with celebrities, or BBC Three's I Survived A Zombie Apocalypse, but without zombies.

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Celebrities are a pampered bunch, aren't they? All those high-class hotels, chauffeurs and posh meals must get to their heads. Something must, otherwise they'd never be mad enough to sign up for ITV's new show Mission Survive - in which they trek through the Costa Rican jungle, watched over by Bear Grylls.

The series starts tonight - and trust us, episode one is great fun. And hey, episode two features the celebs drinking their own urine. In other words, it's a must watch. With a great cast involved, it's definitely one to tune into, but to find out a bit more we caught up with Bear to, er, Gryll him (sorry)...

"I've done a lot of shows like Running Wild and Our Wild Weekend where it's just about getting to know the celebs and hearing their stories in a nice great Boys' Own adventure. But this is different. This is...