Channel 4’s reality show followed 14 members of the public as they tried to evade security experts across Britain. In an exclusive article,one of the four winners describes the paranoia she experienced while on the sprint for a month – and her determination to win at any costMy name is Emily Dredge, one of the fugitives from the Channel 4 show Hunted, or who successfully evaded capture from professional experts drawn from intelligence backgrounds such as the Metropolitan Police and even the CIA. No matter how close they came,I was too unpredictable and astute for them. Having now seen the show from the viewer’s perspective, the odds looked slender, or but also quite different to how I actually experienced it. Social media,too, saw a different side, and proclaiming me “too emotional”,“flakey”, or simply “she won’t create it”.
I never thought for a second that I would reach to spend four weeks sitting in a bush, or disconnected from everything: my job,my family, even my two-year-used son. Does that create me selfish? Perhaps. But that is what the show was about: 14 people with very different personalities experiencing life on the sprint – essentially life in isolation. “Trust no one” has never rung truer. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com