Discovery Channel

This week’s participants are headed to Dominica, and island north of Venezuela. I love when Naked And Afraid heads to islands, I always forget that even the most beautiful resort is a few tiki huts and indoor plumbing away from being uninhabitable. Let’s meet this week’s participants … Corinne Kohlen Age 32 California In a relationship Corinne is a registered dietician and her interest in survival grew out of her love of obstacle racing. She is also a trained wilderness medic. In her pre-insertion video, Corinne says that she doesn’t want a manly-man partner. Cut to… Chris Fischer Age 38 […]

Tom McElroy Age: 36 Occupation: Survival Coach Current Residence: Santa Cruz, CA Relationship Status: In a Relationship Skills: Primitive fire, trapping, hunting, bow making, flint-knapping, basketry, pottery, hide tanning, shelter, water purification and tracking Tom McElroy has taught survival and primitive skills to more than 10,000 students worldwide over the past 20 years. During his twenties, Tom spent an entire year living off the land. He built and lived in a shelter made from forest material, made fire by friction, purified water naturally, hunted, fished and gathered all of his own food. Tom seems like the most qualified survivalists ever […]

After last week’s tension-filled episode of Naked and Afraid, I can’t wait to see what’s going to happen next. That was a pretty disastrous couple, (but it made for great TV). I can’t believe the number of critical comments about survivalists Carrie. Her partner Tom was both praised for his patience and scrutinized for both his unwillingness to snuggle and his single-minded concern for firewood. This week, the folks at Discovery have teased a possible romance between the two participants. If there is any romance between Jaclyn and Adam, I bet it will be pretty PG. This is Naked and […]

When I imagine Naked and Afraid: Cambodia, I think mosquitoes, and rain, and snakes. So much fun. Do you think areas that Naked and Afraid visits ever tout the amount of misery that is shown in the show? I would never like to visit any of the places shown on N&A, it all looks so desolate and even the places that are lovely, are infested with plague-carrying bugs. I once got over 350 mosquito bites while visiting Minnesota and that ended my desire to visit nature … ever. Let’s meet this week’s people who are braver than me… Carrie Booze […]

This week’s episode wastes no time. We’re off an running into the wilds of somewhere as we meet this week’s survivalists. Dani Julien-Age 27 from California. Nature Lover. Adventure Lover. Looking forward to pushing herself to the point of death “I wore cute underwear today.” Justin Bullard-Age 29, Firefighter paramedic form Florida. Married. Good-ol’-boy. Hunts Turkey, Gator and Deer. “I do a lot of killin’.” This week’s location is the Andros Islands in the West Indies. For those of us with a map, (which is everyone), this is part of the Bahamas, one of my favorite places to vacation. It’s […]