Celebs had to grin and Bear it

FOR more than a decade now, Bear Grylls has been teaching us how to survive in the wild.

But I’d never realised the importance of clearly labelling your drinking flask until this week’s Mission

Survive (ITV). The programme saw Bear lead seven celebrities on a 12-day expedition into the South African bushveld.

“Most people in a survival situation die,” Bear told them cheerily. And that was just the start.

Before setting off, the host made all seven fill up a bottle with their own pee.

If the contestants thought it was to be used as a sample to give them a health check they were in for a wee shock.

After two days being led up and down ravines, the celebs were served up a protein-rich dinner of mopane worms washed down with a bottle of Chateauneuf du Pee Pee.

I think you’d stomach drinking your own if it meant keeping hydrated but that’s one drink you don’t want to get into a “is that mine or yours?” situation with.

“Being an actor you have to be a survivor,” Michelle Collins told us rather optimistically at the outset.

But when fellow actress Chelsee Healey was told she was the first person eliminated she had to summon up a BAFTA-worthy performance to look disappointed.

She was only ever served champagne on Strictly.

The People v OJ Simpson

on BBC2 is proving absorbing viewing but there’s one thing I find a little jarring.

We haven’t been told if Robert Shapiro or Marcia Clark even have children, so why the scenes with fellow lawyer Robert Kardashian’s offspring?

“We are Kardashians and in this family being a good person and a loyal friend is more important than being famous,” Robert preached to his kids over dinner this week.

Like a lot about the OJ case, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.