Running wild with bear grylls (stv)

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His name sounds like a brand of unreliable Soviet ovens but you know what you’re getting with Bear Grylls.

He arrives in a remote part of the planet us humans haven’t Tarmacked over or built a Lidl on yet, and attempts to not die. Fashioning anoraks from bracken, licking dew from boulders, building campfires from squirrel feet – it’s a simple formula of man versus nature. Except there’s only so many times you can watch Bear wolf down an ant colony before it becomes old hat. Bear now brings celebrities along with him to the windblasted tundras where he hangs out.

Last week, Roger Federer accompanied the former SAS man to the Swiss Alps. While the pair abseiled down frozen waterfalls and trekked across perilous glaciers, our host did his darnedest to draw something interesting out of the greatest tennis player of all time.

It was to little avail, mostly because, like most top-level athletes, Roger is a bit dull. The pair gobbled down frozen fish eyeballs while Bear quizzed Roger on what he was like growing up.

Angry, revealed the icecool tennis ace. He used to throw his racquet away in a rage. But into a net so it wouldn’t break.

Bear might be able to find moisture in the parched hellscape that is Death Valley, but he couldn’t draw anything juicy out of Roger.