Bear Grylls slams SAS Who Dares Wins style celeb survival shows and says ‘you don’t need to kill’ stars

A NEW troop of stars including Maisie Smith and AJ and Curtis Pritchard are battling the odds as filming for the latest SAS: Who Dares Wins gets underway. But the original adventurer Bear Grylls believes the Channel 4 series is too harsh. He has fronted his own survival skills show, Running Wild, in America since […]

A NEW troop of stars including Maisie Smith and AJ and Curtis Pritchard are battling the odds as filming for the latest SAS: Who Dares Wins gets underway.

But the original adventurer Bear Grylls believes the Channel 4 series is too harsh.

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Bear himself spent three years in the SAS[/caption]

He has fronted his own survival skills show, Running Wild, in America since 2014.
A-list celebrities including Barack Obama, Zac Efron and Kate Winslet have appeared.

And Bear himself spent three years in the SAS, so he knows his reef knot from his snare traps. In a side swipe at Who Dares, Bear said: “It is about the guests and you don’t need to take them to the edge.

“We don’t need to kill people.”

Bear obviously felt comfortable dissing the rival show now Ant Middleton has departed.