Man vs. Wild ... say it ain't so!

Matt is usually the nature show aficianado in our family, but we're both fans of the show "Man vs. Wild" on the Discovery Channel. Basically, a former member of the British special forces is dropped into some remote place (the Rockies, Alaska, the Amazon), with literally nothing (yes, other than a camera crew with whom he can't interact), and he has to find his way back to civilization using his skills as a survivalist. The man, Bear Grylls, has an insane amount of knowledge about the wild and is pretty cool, too, and kind of cute. But this story in Hollywood Reporter, citing a TV report, is making us all question the show after all ... with reports that Bear checked into hotels (!) when he was supposedly sleeping in the wild and other deceptions.

If it's true, it's depressing!