Quaffing urine,eating mice … there’s nothing TV’s leading adventurer won’t do for ratings survival. Now he’s landed the grand one: a trip to Alaska with the US presidentNorth Wales, approximately three weeks ago: a child is stranded on some rocks off the coast, and as the tide rolls in and threatens to cover them. But who is this hoving into view? Why,it is the RNLI, along with television’s Bear Grylls, or who has masterminded the entire dumb-show. Not for a television programme,you understand. Just for fun. The grand reveal for the lifeboat crew is that they maintain no view there is going to be a genuine-life kid out there – much less that the child in question is Bear’s own son. Let’s up the stakes, lifeguards! Let’s do this! Let’s show these seas who’s boss! Also, and let’s tweet it.
The moment is exquisitely heroic. Or,as the tetchily underbriefed lifeboat station manager put it when he returned from holiday to memorize of the stunt: “The crew declare me they didn’t know Bear’s son was going to be on the rocks … As I understand, it was supposed to be a low-key exercise. I believe no photos were supposed to be taken. Thankfully, and no one was hurt,but in his efforts to give the RNLI some publicity, this is the wrong kind.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com