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THE thing I don’t understand is, why has barmy TV adventurer Bear Grylls never been given his own food show? He’d be a natural, surely. They could call it Bear Grylls Grills.
(Or maybe even Bear Grylls Grills Bear, although I guess that might be a wee bit limited, recipe-wise.)
I only mention this because he’s demonstrating his food foraging skills yet again in BEAR’S MISSION WITH WARWICK DAVIS, a one-off special on
ITV (9pm).
He’s persuaded Warwick to join him for a typically lunatic adventure in the Lake District, and obviously amid all the stupid amounts of climbing and jumping and abseiling and dangling from ropes over 150ft gorges etc, these guys need to keep their strength up.
Which is where the trout’s raw eyeball comes in. Yes, really. In the absence of anything you’d traditionally define as food, Bear offers this as the perfect highprotein snack.
Memo to other celebs who sign up for this show: for God’s sake, hide a Snickers in your pants. HEALTH-THEMED programmes dominate tonight’s BBC2 schedule. They include NHS AT 70 – LIVE (8pm), a debate hosted by Anita Rani and Nick Robinson, live from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, which considers our National Health Service’s future, and HORIZON: TEENAGERS VS CANCER: A USER’S GUIDE (9.30pm), a moving film in which young people talk openly about their diagnoses and treatment. ELSEWHERE, a nervous Nas finally heads out on a date with another girl in this week’s ACKLEY BRIDGE (8pm, Channel 4). But drastic steps are called for when her date comes on too strong.