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Will Ferrell Takes On Bear Grylls in Swedish Hinterland

We've never fully recovered from the 2007 scandal involving Bear Grylls, host of Man vs. Wild, who was accused of staging some of his wilderness survival adventures. But the guest apperance of Will Ferrell might just be the Neosporin that we need.

Will is set to appear on an episode of the Discovery Channel show in early June in which he and Bear spent two days exploring the Swedish hinterland. The hinterland, as we just learned, is pretty much no-man's land and in Sweden that involves a lot of ice and snow.

Armed with only the most basic survival equipment, Grylls took Ferrell through the paces of real life survival in the ice-bound mountain and glacier ranges in the far north of Sweden.

Typical of the series, Grylls showed the actor -- who took part in the show to promote his upcoming adventure comedy, Land of the Lost -- what it takes to find food in the forests. They even drink their own urine and bite into reindeer eyeballs.

The two also tandem-abseiled off a helicopter, rappelled down frozen waterfalls and camped out overnight in the freezing temperatures. While Will did the stint as part of a "Land of the Lost" promotion, we're wondering if his Swedish wife Viveca had any say in the locale.

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· Will Ferrell Drinks His Own Urine on Man vs. Wild Adventure [Us Weekly]
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Man vs. Wild Reality Check

Reports are swirling today that Bear Grylls, who stars in the Discovery Channel show, "Man Vs. Wild", where he escapes treacherous rain forests, mountain sides, and deserts, by graphically eating live animals and building lots of fires, is a fraud.

They say that his producers make it look like he's roughing it, but at the end of the day, when cameras are off, he checks into a luxury hotel, hops in the jacuzzi and uses the WiFi connection.

The Discovery Channel has launched an investigation to find out the truth, saying:

Discovery Communications has learned that isolated elements of the 'Man vs. Wild' show in some episodes were not natural to the environment, and that for health and safety concerns the crew and host received some survival assistance while in the field. Moving forward the program will be 100 percent transparent and all elements of the filming will be explained up-front to our viewers. In addition, shows that are to be repeated will be edited appropriately.

No Bear!:
·   Bear Grylls Thrills Bogus [NY Post]
·   Man vs Wild More Like Man vs Hotel [HotelChatter]
·   Bear Grylls Fake, But Still Hot [D-Listed]
·   Grylls To Be Transparent [BBC]
·   Bear Grylls On Flickr [Flickr]
·   Man vs. Wild Locked Until August 6, 2007 [Wikipedia]