Naked and Afraid

ooooh, Naked and Afraid Brazil!!! When I think of Brazil, I think of rainforests. But tonight’s Naked and Afraid ventures to an ecosystem that I had no idea existed. Let’s dive right into the Season 3 finale, and meet this week’s survivalists. © Discovery NetworksMatt Strutzel 24 years old from Portland, Oregon Occupation: Blacksmith, Primitive skills instructor Survival Skills: Plant identification, fire making, shelter building, tracking, and traps. Matt developed a passion for the outdoors at a young age. As a teenager, he adopted a vegan diet and honed his primitive camping skills while camping near the Florida Everglades with […]

Whenever the show heads to Africa, we know we’re in for an hour of feeling thirsty, so I can’t wait to see how this week’s survivalists fare on Naked and Afraid Botswana.  Let’s meet this week’s people who hate clothes: Ashley Burns 25 year-old bartender from Coventry, Rhode Island Survival Skills: Hunting, Fishing, Shelter construction, Plant identification Ashley spent her childhood fishing, hunting, camping, and gardening and in her pre-insertion video, she is preparing her feet for Botswana’s tough terrain by Ashley walking barefoot up and down her home’s gravel driveway. The Rhode Island accent is perhaps the nation’s least […]

Ooh doggie, after a week of sharks, I’m glad to get back on dry land for some relative safety of a leech-filled jungle or a scorching savanna! No oceans for me for a while, not when there’s zombie sharks a-swimming! Tonight we’re going to be Naked And Afraid India, which is somewhere I’ve always wanted to visit. I think it’ll be impressive that with over a billion people in a single country, the show can find a range that can support human life that’s uninhabited. This will be a tough journey. Phaedra Brothers Age 27 from Utah She’s a stay […]

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 […]