In reply to peppermill:
Grylls would be flexing and talking and fondling hunting knives and night scopes without realising that Mears had actually already killed him painlessly and was beginning to eat him...
Mears biography says he was gutted not to pass the medical to join the Marines.
It amuses me that the last telly I saw Grylls do, he fancied the companionship of some military men. So instead of going to a reunion of his old unit or meeting old squadron mates like any veteran I've ever met, he goes and gooseberries at some random TA place that presumably couldn't avoid offering hospitality. Awkward.
Excuse me venting, I do some stuff with Scouts, and it p1sses me off that Grylls is Chief Scout of an organisation that has integrity as one of its values when we have such preferable candidates...
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