-[bird squawks] -[suspenseful music builds]
[dramatic drum music plays]
[music fades]
Guess what. Kola, Mel B, Steph, we've gotta get ready.
-[Steph] Oh my God! -Get in your budgie smugglers.
-Whoo! -[Laurence] We've got a date with destiny.
-[dramatic music plays] -[birds twittering]
-Right, Mel, we can do this. -[Mel B] Yes. Yes, we can do anything.
I don't think boys versus girls is fair,
but… boy power, girl power.
-I know. -[music continues]
I think anyone that's not nervous before a challenge is a fool.
By the sound of it, this could be a particularly tricky
and also
a particularly dangerous challenge.
But we're also all very aware of the fact that we're here to do a job,
and that job is to prove ourselves, yes, to Bear,
but actually prove ourselves to ourselves.
[sniffs] All right, let's do this.
[music rises, fades]
You're looking like a SAS… specialist.
[Joe] Yeah.
We have faith in you.
[Kola] Oh, yeah, no, I've got faith in me.
-Not Laurence? -Yeah, no, mate. Laurence as well.
-So I'll work out what we've gotta do. -[Mel B] Yeah.
-Yeah. -[Steph] And then we'll do it.
[laughs]
-That's a really good game plan, Steph. -That's… that's my strategy.
What do you think? I've been thinking about that all night.
[both laugh]
-[Laurence] Come on, let's go. -[Shirley] Come back safe.
[Lottie] I believe in you. Good luck!
-[Joe] Good luck, both teams! -[Steph] See ya!
-[Joe] Enjoy it! -This way. This way.
I'm not going through there.
-Well, go that way, then. -They're all spikes.
Go around this… [chuckles] Oh God.
See, that's my attitude with this challenge, straight through.
[music fades]
I think it's gonna be quite a difficult challenge.
I'm a bit worried about Laurence's attitude towards it,
I'm not gonna lie.
[Joe] Laurence has a laconic energy going in, but he--
Could you explain "laconic" to me?
It's like… [in posh accent] "Oh, darling, it's all easy with me."
-[in own voice] Just that-- -[Danny] "It's gonna be all right."
-[Joe] A bit laid-back and, uh… -Yeah, yeah.
-A bit kind of like antiheroic. -Yeah.
[Joe] Like not wanting to embrace the heroic energy,
but, instead, wanting to impre-- uh, embrace a more sort of like…
the energy of a sort of comic failure.
[Lottie] Mm.
-But I think that that is just Laurence… -[Lottie] Yeah.
[Joe] …conserving the heroic energy for when he's in there.
How are you feeling, B, about not being able to take part?
-That's a different-- -[Boris] Terrible.
Because of my knee problem, I feel… I feel embarrassed. I feel--
-[Una] Oh no. -No, no, it's terrible. I love to compete.
I'd love to be… fighting Bear.
-And the snake and the crocodile. -[chuckles] Yeah.
-You know? -[Una] Yeah.
He's gonna wrestle Bear when he gets in there, by the sound of it.
-[all laugh] -The alligator's gonna come…
…and the alligator's gonna run.
That's how it's gonna go. It ain't going to beat Boris.
[all laughing]
[monkeys chattering]
[ominous music plays]
[eagle screeches]
[Holly] With Una and Danny already headed to the Bear Pit
after losing their challenge,
two teams are about to battle it out on the open water
in our second challenge, "Rescue Rafts."
It's Mel and Steph against Kola and Laurence.
And Bear is quite literally dropping them off in the deep end.
For today's challenge,
the two teams have been brought here to Pandora Beach
where they will undergo the ultimate test of endurance, speed,
and, of course, teamwork,
all whilst 100 meters away from the safety of shore,
in shark-infested waters.
Here they come.
[Bear] For the survivor at sea,
the number-one priority is always to reach dry land.
Trying to survive at sea is probably the harshest environment.
So this challenge is gonna start with that.
I'm gonna be dropping you off the side of this RIB.
[Holly] For this challenge,
Bear's placed a selection of supply bags on and around two rescue rafts.
Each team must collect their supply bags, release their raft anchors,
and pull their rafts, along with the bags, back to shore as quickly as possible.
They must then place the supply bags in the designated area
and set off their flare.
So much of survival,
so much of what you need to thrive in the Bear Pit,
is about common sense.
And this is what I'm looking for.
Can you find that common sense when you're under a bit of pressure?
Because in the wild, small decisions… huge consequences.
And ultimately, that's what this challenge is about.
Making good decisions that can transform your chance of staying alive.
[music builds, fades out]
[tense, dramatic music plays]
You go to the raft, get them open, get to shore, start pulling it.
If it's tricky at all, you come to me,
we get the other things, we pull it together.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Steph was like the military.
"This is what we're gonna do. This is what you're gonna do."
I'm good at following orders, believe it or not.
But from where I'm standing, it's terrifying.
But if I can avoid going in that Bear Pit, I will.
-My heart is beating out of my chest. -No. We can do it.
I noticed those two northern girls really get along.
-[Danny and Big Zuu] Yeah. -[Boris] Like, they're really bonding.
They really understand each other.
I know Mel don't wanna go back to that Bear Pit, boy.
-No, no. -[Big Zuu] Nah.
When she comes with the hair like that, you know it's game time.
-[Big Zuu] Yeah, yeah. -[all] Yeah.
[Boris] Whereas Kola and Laurence are two different people.
Yeah, different backgrounds.
Different backgrounds, different generations. You know?
So I think that matters, in a moment of crisis,
that you really hold on to your partner.
-[chuckles] Yeah. -[Danny] Yeah.
[tense, dramatic music continues]
I'll go straight to the raft and, um, unanchor it.
You bring the bags to me, but then you go straight to shore.
Kola and I are really quite tight.
We've been in a team together before.
I'm hoping his physical ability is going to help.
We feel confident enough to win it.
And then we'll both get them into the square on the beach.
Me and Laurence, we're gonna do great. We're gonna work good as a team.
I don't wanna go in the Bear Pit.
He's already been there, and he's terrified of it,
so we're gonna do everything in our power not to get there.
Okay, we're gonna get you into position, holding on to the metal bar.
-Stand by. -[tense music building]
-Okay, go! Go! Go! -[dramatic music plays]
-Go! -Steph, Mel, Kola, Laurence in.
Oh my God!
[Laurence] The way I'm approaching this is to really
keep saying to myself in my head,
"Get to the raft as quickly as possible."
That is when I can let my kind of jungle training take over.
[dramatic music continues]
I don't think they knew what they were signing up for.
It was hard.
Me and Steph were just like,
"Do-do-do-do-do-do-do!"
[gasping]
And it didn't stop.
[music abates]
[Holly] So we can see the Orange Team there,
getting off to a good start.
-[Mel B grunts] -[Holly] So Mel has got inside her raft.
So it looks like Steph is getting the bags.
-[tense music plays] -[Mel B] Where's the anchor?
[Holly] Black Team, I can see Laurence making his way towards the raft.
Okay, now they've gotta grab the supply bags.
They're about 100 meters out. Gotta unclip all these bags.
[Kola] My tactic is don't panic, be methodical.
There's no time for… for resting.
It's game time.
There was a moment where I noticed that Mel was already in the raft,
and I looked back, and I… I saw Laurence just struggling,
and I said to myself…
[sighs] "Oh God."
I knew we'd made a big mistake.
[Laurence grunting, straining]
I kept throwing myself at the raft, trying to get up.
It just wasn't that easy.
[labored grunting]
-Suddenly, I am in some high… -[tense music building]
…of fight or flight.
[groans] Can't breathe!
[foreboding music plays]
[grunts]
I think this is getting to Laurence.
[Laurence grunts]
[muffled yell]
Looks like Laurence is needing some help here.
[tense music plays]
[Laurence] I can't breathe!
[Bear] Okay, hold tight.
I can't breathe! [gasping]
Oh God, Laurence.
[Bear] Listen up. I'm gonna get the boat in, okay?
-[Kola] I think we're in trouble. -[Laurence] I can't breathe. Please!
I didn't calculate that getting into the raft would be so hard.
In hindsight, I should've been the one that was on the raft,
'cause I'm the more abled.
[Bear] I've got you. I've got you super solid here.
[Laurence] Oh, I can't breathe!
[Bear] We're going to put you on this board.
[Laurence grunts]
-[groans] -[Bear] Okay, Laurence.
-[Laurence splutters] -[Bear] Okay, we're gonna get you ashore.
You're all good.
[Laurence] I'm sorry, Kola.
[Holly] So the safety team have got Laurence.
I think that possibly means that he is out of the game.
I'm really tight… across my chest.
-[groans] -[man 1] Okay, can you walk in?
-[man 2] Hey, buddy. -I can't breathe.
-All right. -Sorry.
[man 3] You go back in the water.
-Okay, moving. And deep breaths. -[Laurence breathing heavily]
-[tense music continues] -[woman] How are you doing?
-[Laurence] I can't get enough oxygen. -[woman] Yeah, that's okay.
-Why don't you lean back against…? -Can we take… can we take this off?
-Just lean back. -It's okay.
[Laurence] I couldn't breathe. It really was frightening.
I mean, I really did think I was having a heart attack.
Oh my God. [breathes heavily]
-[woman] It's okay. -[Laurence groans breathlessly]
[woman] Just take some nice, deep, deep breaths.
-[dramatic music plays] -[Mel B grunts, huffs]
[Bear] Okay, Kola, you're a man down.
It's just what happens sometimes, yeah?
[Kola] I hope Laurence is all right.
But the worst possible thing happened. I turned into a team of one.
[Bear] Stay on the task.
[Kola] And when you're in the ocean, that's an impossible task.
So I felt super frustrated.
[dramatic music continues]
[Holly] So Steph has got, like, a bunch of the supply bags,
and she's gonna drag them all over.
[Steph] There were moments where my heart rate…
I could really feel my heart.
But having been captured by Bear twice,
it's given me more knowledge,
and knowledge is power.
[Holly] Mel's pulling the raft.
Go on, girls!
-[Bear] Kola, you okay? -[Kola] Yeah, fine.
Okay, so the girls have definitely… got the up on Kola here.
-He's still getting his bags. -[Kola pants]
I was that tired, but there was no way that I wasn't gonna finish it.
I just wanna get this challenge and do it to the best of my ability.
[exhales sharply]
But me and Steph were so busy with the challenge,
we weren't looking at the other team.
We were just on our mission.
So to find out that Laurence was… going through what he was going through
and Kola was left to do the challenge all by himself, it's pretty shocking.
[Steph] Laurence all right?
-[Mel B] Where is he? -He's there in an oxygen thing.
Trying to complete this challenge
was, you know, something that felt dramatic in itself,
but then seeing Laurence with, like, an oxygen mask on,
it was just really scary 'cause this is real life.
[music soars]
[Mel B] Pull! Run, run, run!
-[grunts] -[Steph] Keep pulling! Keep pulling!
I am feeling absolutely exhausted.
Get it on land so it can't be pulled out again.
[breathlessly] Oh my God. [huffs]
Right, now get all these… things off.
[Mel B] I feel like I used the last bit of energy that I had.
I just put it all out there.
-[Steph grunts] -[Holly] Well done, Steph. Good job.
I mean, no plan survives first contact with the enemy.
[Holly] Kola looks like he's swimming to shore now,
which is gonna take up so much energy,
and then when he gets here, he's gotta pull this boat in.
I'm not a person that's ever gonna quit. Never gonna quit on my team.
It's just not in me.
You can do this.
[Kola] The challenge was there to be won.
[Mel B] It's hard.
That water's no joke.
Kola is trying to finish everything off by himself.
[Steph] Hey, Kola, we've got you, babe!
We're here to help.
But me and Steph went and went to help, because that is the right thing to do.
[both panting]
[Bear] Keep pulling it in.
Come on, let's get it in.
Medics on Laurence, someone give me a thumbs-up.
Bear, he's okay. He's just getting some air.
He's gonna be all right.
-Well done, team. -[Steph] Kola, pick it up.
[all panting]
[Steph grunts breathlessly]
Okay, you can leave him to it.
The emergency's over. Mel, leave him to it. Steph.
[Steph] Ready? One, two, three.
-[flares pop] -Whoo!
[Holly] Well done, girls.
That's the flare that shows they've got all their bags in.
[stirring music plays]
[Steph breathing heavily]
I was so thankful that Laurence was okay,
so thankful that Kola was okay,
but I'm so happy we did it.
[trills lips]
-[Kola grunts] -Kola, keep working to the bitter end.
[Holly] Well done, Kola.
Good teamwork, mate.
Good job. Thank you for helping. I appreciate that. Good job.
Some things matter more.
It's been an incredibly frustrating day. We could've won it, you know?
Don't get me wrong. Like, they were fantastic.
They were fast,
but there was a lot of things that we had to go through
that they didn't.
-[Kola pants] -[Steph] Go on, Kola!
Do your flare! Do your flare!
-[clapping] -[Steph] Yay!
-[clapping] -[Holly] Well done, Kola!
[somber pulsing music plays]
Laurence, you're back. I mean, are you… are you all right?
-Looking at you now… -I'm fine.
-[Holly] I'm worried. -No, no, no.
-[Bear] He's got color again. -[Laurence] It'll be good. It'll be fine.
-What happened? -[Laurence] Got tangled up under the raft.
-[Holly] Scary. -But luckily… Thank you.
-No. You did well. -[Laurence] I got saved.
If you're gonna be rescued by anyone, Bear Grylls is the one you want, right?
Yeah.
I got sort of a bit caught up under the raft,
and, uh, I became a very panicky old man.
You know, I was just really silly. I kind of, you know…
[voice breaks] I sort of threw myself at it a bit too hard.
[smacks lips] But there we go. Live and learn.
[tender music plays]
Well done, guys. I like the fact you worked hard.
You worked together, finished your task, and then you helped.
Laurence, we need to get some IV drips into you, some saline solution.
We need to keep you in the shade, cool you down, hydrate you,
because you guys, at dawn, are going into the Bear Pit.
-[triumphant music plays] -[Steph] Yes! [squeals]
-[Holly] The relief. Well done, girls. -[Steph squealing]
Very well deserved.
[Steph] ♪ Here's a story from A to Z You wanna get with me ♪
[chuckles]
[music rises, fades out]
[Kola] I felt a little bit cheated. The challenge wasn't fair.
[tense music plays]
I felt like our team was playing the challenge on hard,
and they were on easy.
But things played out the way things played out,
and this is what we're done with.
I was just thinking in my head, "Just finish it."
"As long as you finish the race, you can… you can…
you can have… you can save some pride," innit?
I was playing…
At that moment, I was playing for pride, 'cause I knew we'd already lost the race.
So go back to base camp, get some rest, and I'll see you down there tomorrow.
-And get well soon. Look after yourself. -[Laurence] Thank you.
-[tense music continues] -[indistinct chatter]
[Kola] Can't say I'm not disappointed.
I'm not disappointed in Laurence. Laurence done his best.
But, um, I think, as a team, we wasn't good enough.
And it's cost us. You know, it's cost us dearly.
And now we gotta face the Bear Pit.
[tense music fades]
[Joe] Whoa.
-Now it'd be dangerous in there right now. -[Joe] Big wave.
-Can you imagine? -It would now, yeah. That is a big swell.
It looks quite fierce, the sea, today.
-[expectant music plays] -[Joe] They're here!
[Shirley] They're here!
[clapping]
[Big Zuu] Yay!
-[Steph] We're back! -[group cheers]
-[Una] Welcome back. -[Steph] Thank you.
Before we tell you about the challenge… It was quite a dramatic morning.
To paint the scene, we had to jump off a speed boat at speed.
-Whilst it was speeding. -Into water.
-Backwards. -No!
-It was lovely. That bit was great. -[Steph] And swim to rafts.
I… Well, I stupidly confused swimming with drowning.
Right, yeah, I've done that.
-No way. -[Laurence] Yeah.
Basically what happened, I got overtired and panicked,
and I got caught up in the raft,
and I didn't master the way that I was feeling,
so my breathing got worse and worse and worse and worse.
So, obviously, Laurence got caught in the middle of it.
-[Joe] Yeah. -[Steph] Which left Kola on his own.
[Big Zuu] To do everything?
So he then ended up doing the absolute whole challenge,
the two-man-team challenge, on his own.
Wow. Kola, well done.
Wuss-face here was laid out like a fish on the beach, trying to breathe.
So… Well, no, let's put it into context.
We had a really good game plan.
We literally got onshore, and we were done.
[Steph] And then we saw…
And then we saw him on the floor with oxygen
and him still all the way back out to sea, so we went to help him.
[group] Aw…
-[Shirley] Well done. -[Big Zuu] Very cool.
When we got back to camp,
Kola was a little bit reserved, and I think he felt that he had been…
[splutters] Saying robbed is wrong,
but I think he felt that the competition didn't go in our favor.
[Lottie] Can we just have a minute for Kola for doing it all by himself?
-No, no, we helped him. -We helped him.
-No, no, no, we helped him. -Only on the beach, bruv. Relax.
[tense music plays]
Right now, I am fuming.
Nothing went my way.
I felt like they were being super defensive,
because there was a whole world of events
before them helping me pull in the last bit of the rope.
Like, come on.
And then, all of a sudden, that means that they helped us.
And it's like, "Oh, yeah, so basically,
Kola's just like a… you know, a charity case,"
where it's like, "Oh, he's so rubbish that, like, he needs help
after you just completed the test-- the task."
I really… I really don't like that.
[Laurence] Shall we tell who's going to the Bear Pit?
-Yes. -[Una] Yeah.
-Us. [chuckles] -[group chuckle]
[Laurence] Weirdly!
[Mel B] But I have to say, even…
This is just from my point of view, because I'm just too honest.
Even from the get-go,
say, if you had have recovered and got on that raft,
I think our tactic was so clean and military.
-It does show how Bear takes no prisoners. -[Laurence] Yeah.
Whether you're on an oxygen tank, you're going in the… in the Bear Pit.
You worked your butt off to save your partner and yourself.
-You're tired. -Doesn't mean he sticks to himself.
You have the afternoon to recover.
You need… you need the best Kola tomorrow.
[tense music continues]
[Danny] Well done for all four of you. Well done.
Congrats to all of you. Unlucky, guys. Unlucky, man.
[Steph] It was tense when we got back to the lodge.
It didn't feel like a moment of celebration
for anyone,
because we weren't going in the Bear Pit, and we were absolutely made-up about that,
and we'd worked really hard to get to that point.
But Kola, understandably, was upset, because it felt unfair.
[Big Zuu] Big dog.
Stay with it, man. Stay with it, man.
-It's mad, bruv. -[Big Zuu] Stay with it, man.
[Kola] It's a joke, bro. They left me to do it all by myself.
-[Big Zuu] Of course. -[Kola] People saying, "We helped you."
-You helped bring the boat in a bit. -I hear that. That's jarring.
-That's jarring. -You know? That's jarring, bro.
-You wasn't there-- -You're allowed to be jarred.
You wasn't there when I was in the ocean, bro.
And I didn't even ask for your help in… anyway. You know what I'm saying?
I do feel like the comments from the Orange Team,
um, have kinda
taken away from how hard Kola had to work on his own.
I feel like Mel saying,
"Oh, we helped your team, and we helped you,"
I don't feel like that helped Kola at all.
I feel like he took that the wrong way. When you guys…
When you guys said that you helped, I feel like he took that the wrong way.
-We did. -[Big Zuu] Yeah, that's completely fine.
[Mel B] Why do I have to say anything? What if I say the wrong thing?
[Big Zuu] Then… then at least you tried.
[downcast music plays]
-[Mel B] I've come to stare at you. -[Kola] Stare at me?
[Mel B] And say…
you didn't need our help.
We didn't help you that much, just at the very end.
-[Kola] You did. You helped me at the end. -[Mel B] Yeah.
-[Kola] You did. -[Mel B] So?
-[Kola] It's fine. -[Mel B] Why aren't you smiling, then?
There's a big difference when you take your energy away.
-[Kola] Yeah. -The room goes, "Wah, wah, wah."
-Yeah, yeah. -[Mel B] Right?
Yeah, you're right.
-[Mel B] Then go and voice… -[Kola] You did really well.
Never mind about that. Go and voice your opinions.
-[Kola] No, I'm all right. I'd rather-- -No, we don't want you like this.
This is not nice for you.
And I like taking the piss out of you and having fun.
I'd rather just… chill out today. I couldn't be bothered.
That means I can't joke with you then. Let me know when I can wind you up.
-[Kola] Yeah, well… -[Mel B] Please?
[trills lips]
Me and Mel have a very strange relationship
where… I think we're very endeared by each other,
but also, we do rub each other up.
I feel like she's just so much like my older sisters
that I'll probably treat her like that.
And she knew what to do at the right time to get me cheesed off.
Yeah, but she did come back and apologize in her way.
[chuckles]
-[downcast music continues] -[waves crashing]
[Steph] Hey, you.
Ah.
It's your Bear wife.
I mean, you're… you're Mr. Joker.
I know, you're like… in front of all them, you're "crack a gag, crack a gag,"
but that terrified you, didn't it?
Oh, it was really scary. No, I mean, it really was.
I thought I was having a heart attack. I mean, I really did.
Nothing was working here.
-That's what it felt like. -Oh my God. That is so scary.
I think that's why I still feel a bit shaky and a bit kind of…
-[Steph] Yeah. -…still a little bit weepy.
-Oh man, no. -Everyone was…
-[chuckles] -Come here.
[both] Aw…
-Honestly-- -We just take the piss out of each other.
-We don't do big emotions. That's weird. -No, I know. I know.
When Bear, you know, had me…
[scoffs]
I may… I may go.
[somber, pensive music plays]
Um, that was the thing that really started calming me down.
I do feel as if I've, you know, swerved a big one.
-Yeah. -You know?
-I do really feel as if… -Yeah, yeah.
-…that could've been horrid. -Yeah.
I do feel as if I've had quite a big life experience.
Life-slash-death experience.
It felt a bit like I was being told off
by my actually, obviously, quite elderly body.
You know, I feel as if I've sort of failed a bit with that.
Which I did. I did fail.
[pensive music continues]
[birds warbling]
[Mel B] One of my athlete friends, he has a visualization coach,
where he makes him visualize going through it,
all the motions and winning.
[Boris] Yeah, I never had that.
I was… I was discovered…
I was 15 years old.
So, fast-forward, I get into Wimbledon, win the tournament.
-Yeah. -You know, it was a really special day.
But me, I was in my own bubble, right?
-What's your state of mind… -[Boris] Yeah.
…on the winning streak?
The first, the youngest. What are you thinking then?
The biggest challenge, really, up until now, is the aftermath.
-Think of Taylor Swift… -Yeah.
…now.
Back in the day, in Germany, I was in the news every single day.
What did I eat, where did I go, who I had lunch with.
Even my parents were intimidated.
Right. Yeah.
You can't see it now, but I used to be very, very strong.
I would be taller.
What do you mean, taller? You haven't shrunk.
Yeah. I was about 6'4.
I'm 6'1 now.
Because of my hip and knees and ankle surgeries,
it… it downgrades you.
-Right, right. -[Boris] I lost three inches.
And I paid a heavy price.
But you've left a legacy
that can't be not seen or not talked about,
which is amazing.
[rhythmic drum music plays]
[bird caws]
-[birds squawk] -[music fades]
I was sat looking at the ocean, I was like,
"What really matters in your life?"
-It's so overwhelming in here. -[Una] Mm.
'Cause you don't have…
You've got no other things to do but apart from think.
-Yeah. -[Lottie] You know?
And… and… and take in… like, listening to everyone else.
Like, there's so many interesting perspectives on life,
and it's, like, I am overwhelmed with it all.
I've never listened so much in my life.
-Same. Me neither. Same. -I've never… Like, I'm…
I'm lost for words a lot of the time, because I'm just taking it in.
'Cause, actually, to be honest with you, I haven't figured out, um,
my philosophy yet.
-Me neither. -In real life, I tend to talk a lot.
-I don't listen enough. -Same.
And that's a huge life lesson that I'm gonna leave with,
even if it is after the Bear Pit tomorrow.
But at the same time, I don't wanna… I don't wanna leave yet.
Like, I'm not ready to go.
I think I have figured out why I'm here.
I'm here to learn a big lesson, and it's from the others.
Others are a lot more outspoken, confident,
but I've found myself doing a lot of listening.
I think that's something I've been missing in my life,
not really being able to process things.
I've carried a lot of, um, pain and trauma in… in events.
But, I think, a lot of the time, when I'm not listening to people,
I'm maybe making mistakes.
And I think the thought of going into the Bear Pit tomorrow
and not being able to carry on… this journey,
um, frightens me a little.
[bird crows]
[frog croaking]
I can't read music, but I can write you a rap in five minutes.
Me too, like the one in "Wannabe," in the toilet.
-Did you guys write your own songs? -I wrote that rap in the toilet.
-Did you? -Yes, 100%.
Why do you think we've got Ivor Novello awards?
Please stop.
-We have. -Stop.
-Please don't underestimate a Spice Girl. -I'm underestimating Mel.
You don't think we've got Ivor Novello awards for--
I do know you do. It was a joke.
-Did you all write your own songs? -We wrote them together.
All of them?
"Mama," we wrote… we wrote… we wrote separately.
Ah…
My verse was an apology to my mum.
What does "zig-a-zig-ah" mean?
That's for me to know and you to never find out.
-Ah! I know what it means. -You think you might know what it means.
It means different things to different people.
There you go!
[Mel B] I love talking about Spice Girls. Spice Girls is my life.
I'm not gonna go in and start bragging about Spice Girls.
It has to be, like, in a nice way to talk about it.
You don't wanna be going, "Well, I did this, and I did that, and…"
I'm not really that kind of person, but it's my life,
and I'm very proud of being a Spice Girl.
Of course I am.
There's only five of us in the whole wide world
that can say we're a Spice Girl, and I'm one of 'em.
[tender piano music plays]
[Danny] Look what you faced today.
[Kola] I'm still really disappointed in myself though.
[Danny] You faced something which was the unknown,
and you overcame it.
-You can do whatever you want. -Thank you. So can you, bro.
-No, no. I appreciate that. -100%, bro.
-Thank you. -And good luck for tomorrow, man.
We have to go our separate ways, fight our own battles.
-Yeah, yeah. -All we've gotta do is last an hour.
If we all go to last an hour and we ain't caught,
imagine how epic that will be.
[Danny] Mm.
[tender music continues]
-[Shirley] How did it go? -[Boris] Good, I think.
-[Shirley and Una] Good. -[Boris] Yeah.
-You seem like you're walking better. -It looks better.
I mean, I… I feel it, but it's not… not pain as such.
-You know? It's not stopping me, you know? -[Lottie] Great.
I had a doctor's appointment to do an MRI.
I haven't seen yet the actual results, so…
-But you look a lot more relaxed. -You look lighter.
-[chuckles] Yeah.
-[Steph] You were hiding a lot of pain. -Yeah.
-Let's raise a glass to King Boris! -[all cheer]
-[Mel B] Yes! -[Laurence] The King is back!
[tender music abates]
This literally could be our last night here.
It's true.
-Be in the moment, man. -Yeah, be in the moment.
That's all you can do in life anyway.
Like, every day. You can't live tomorrow, and you can't relive the past.
You can only be here right now.
-We're gonna go in there ready. -[Una] Yeah.
[Danny] And how it goes is how it goes.
Hey, you're gonna do your kids proud too.
I know. [chuckles] Jungle mum.
[inhales deeply] Jungle mammy.
-[tender music resumes] -[crickets chirping]
[Shirley] There was lots of insects in here.
-[Steph] I… I brushed them out. -Thank you.
[Steph] Well, not all… Well, hopefully all of them.
[Shirley] It is what it is, eh?
[Laurence] I have never been in a situation
which has been as physically tough as today, ever.
I mean, funnily enough, I feel quite well armed
to cope with this particular Bear Pit.
[Mel B whispers] Laurence, it's just me tucking your feet in.
Yes, it's a very unpleasant experience. Yes, it's very scary.
But actually, I know that the Bear Pit
is nothing like as scary as what happened today.
[music fades out]
[snoring]
[insect buzzing]
[melodic house music plays]
[rooster crows]
-Do your best today, remember. -[Laurence] I'm going to.
-And don't go for a pee. -I'm not gonna go for a pee. Or a poo!
Slept all right?
I woke up at 2:00, and I didn't really get back to sleep.
It was so hot, man. I got real sticky.
-Okay. It wasn't the pre-match nerves? -No, no, no.
-I have that sometimes. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[Laurence] I'm concerned that I put this on
and I'm gonna look more as if I should be in the Rio Carnival.
Yours is definitely the fanciest one.
-[laughing] -Hello!
[laughs]
-I'm here. -[chuckles] Oh, stop!
[Boris] Amongst us, what's your pick?
[Shirley] I think Laurence is used to it. He's been in it once.
I wanna see Una do well.
Out of them, she's the one I want to come home the most.
I love Danny and Kola, but if one of them go home, I'll be happy.
-[scoffs] -Did you?
[Boris laughs]
Hey, I love all of you, but this is… They're competition. [chuckles]
The minute he said that, I was really, sort of, like, taken aback,
'cause it seems a bit early in the game, you know, and he's lovable.
But what I've learned now about Big Zuu, he's very, very competitive.
Danny, he just said he'd be happy if you and Kola went home,
'cause you're the biggest competition.
He doesn't think that women are as strong as men.
I did not say that! I didn't say that.
-When did I say that? When did I say that? -[Mel B] It implies that.
Okay, so… so what about Laurence?
-[Mel B] I'm joking! -What about Laurence?
-[Mel B] But I'm not really. -You, though, you're hilarious.
-[Mel B] I'm just honest. -So am I. That's why I said what I said.
And he said he really wouldn't mind, in particular, you, Danny.
-Yes. Yes! -[laughs] I'm joking!
[Shirley] I understand that Mel can press a few buttons
and then say, "I'm only joking, I'm only joking,"
but by that time, you can't take anything back.
Once it leaves your mouth,
you've gotta think about what effect it has on people around.
I think everyone's got an opinion. I think that's good.
But I wasn't sure it was right thing for Mel to tell those two boys
before they're about to leave to do a challenge.
-You know what I mean? -[Lottie] I said that.
[Shirley] I'm not sure about those kind of tactics.
[Lottie] That would piss me off so much.
I was kind of like, "Oof, that's a bit…"
And the "I am joking" bit is "no, you're not."
-[Lottie] Mm. -[Shirley laughs]
So it's been a wild few days for the celebrities.
They've been up high over Razor Ravine, dumped off a boat into the sea,
and Laurence got gas and air from a bikini-clad doctor.
Lucky him.
On top of all of that, four more of them are about to head into the Bear Pit.
[tense, dramatic music plays]
Hello, hello! Come and join me.
Come on, guys!
-Hello, hello, Holly. -Are you okay?
-[Boris] I'm all right. -Just very hot!
It's really hot today.
Well, you guys look very relaxed.
-You guys, utterly terrifying. -[Una] Yeah.
-And terrified. -[Holly] I bet you are.
[somber music plays]
So, Kola, Laurence, Una, and Danny,
you're about to enter the Bear Pit.
Your aim is to either evade Bear or escape the pit.
You're gonna be in there for one hour.
There are three exit points.
Each point can only be used by one of you.
So, remember, you're not just on the lookout for Bear.
Keep your eyes peeled for those traps.
Any celebrities caught by Bear or in one of his traps
will be in danger of elimination.
One of you will be going home today.
[music builds]
[music fades]
I wish you the best of luck.
It is now time to make your way into the Bear Pit.
-Come on! -[Holly] Good luck, guys.
-You've got this. -[Big Zuu] Good luck!
-Good luck! -Let's go!
-[Holly] Be safe. Especially Laurence. -[Big Zuu] Good luck!
[dramatic music plays]
[Kola] Things didn't go well yesterday, but that's not me. I'm not a loser.
So, Bear, if you wanna find me, you're gonna have to try really hard,
'cause I'm gonna be out of there before you know it.
[propellers droning]
[Una] I really don't wanna go home.
I really wanna push myself and challenge myself,
so I'm gonna fight for my life.
I'm dying to get in there and dying to get out.
[dramatic music continues]
[Danny] As an athlete, you can't be thinking about ifs and buts,
and, for me, as soon as it's time to go, I'll be ready.
[Laurence] I stared death in the face, but I'm not being defeatist.
It's always the elderly lion that you need to watch out for,
and those young cubs should be very careful of this elderly lion.
[music rises, fades]
[wind howling]
[unsettling music plays]
-Okay. -[Laurence] Ooh…
So we are here.
And are these… are these paths?
[Laurence] Could be.
Why am I telling you? Look at you all.
You have a phenomenal physical advantage over the old fella wearing the pot plant.
You've got the nous though, mate. You've got the nous.
[Holly] To leave via one of the exits,
the Bear-Pitters will need to find a special tool.
Details of what they need and where it's located
are at the exit points.
Has anyone any idea where they're gonna go?
I don't think we should be sharing that information. Why? What? Why? Why?
[Holly] But this time,
Bear has set timed booby traps on some of the tools.
Trigger one, and they're in trouble.
[epic music plays]
[Bear] Woo-hoo!
Come on then. We've got work to do.
[Laurence] Second time in the Bear Pit,
and, of course, I feel I actually do have a bit of an advantage.
The other three guys, they are full of youth and vigor and vim and energy…
[whispers] …but they are super nervous.
Let's let them know… that the hunt's beginning.
[music crescendoes]
[banging]
-[distant bangs echo] -[Kola] Whoa!
[ticking]
It's go time. Okay.
-[tense music plays] -[ticking]
[Una whispers] Oh God. I think I need to go up around the back.
I have nightmares about being chased,
so my mission in the Bear Pit is to get the hell out of there.
My game plan at the moment is to go for the dig under the fence,
but my gut is telling me Laurence has done it before
and I might beat him there.
[Kola] Where am I? Where are you, Bear?
I'm gonna go for dig under the fence.
Right now, I'm a bit nervous. I'm a bit anxious,
and I don't wanna get caught.
I've kind of gone off path, and I'm a little bit lost.
I thought this would happen.
What happened yesterday wasn't to plan.
I have to cast that from my mind,
and I have to think about the situation right now.
[tense music continues]
So Bear's out already.
Obviously, there is an exit that I know very well, the fence exit,
but I know how steep the hill is to get up to it.
I've got my eye on the 4x4 exit.
My advantage is that I think I will be able to find my way
without having to run too fast.
Okay, we're gonna drop down from here.
[resonant ping]
Okay, I'm heading straight for the middle of the pit,
because that's the place
that I'm most likely to see people passing through.
I'm gonna find a good choke point,
probably down at the bottom of this, by the river, and then be patient.
[tense, suspenseful music plays]
[Danny] Okay. Path splits off.
Yeah. Take it to the right.
This is gonna be a lot tougher than playing 80 minutes of rugby.
My plan is to get to the exit as fast as I can.
[resonant ping]
I'm looking to go to the ladder route,
but if I don't quite get there, I know that I can adapt on the run.
I'm loving Costa Rica, I'm loving the jungle,
and I'm loving learning from Bear.
This is not an experience I wanna cut short.
I wanna be here till the end.
[music fades]
-[bang] -[grunts]
-[ominous music plays] -[whispers] Shit.
That's one of the trip wires going off.
[Danny panting]
[Bear] They are moving fast.
-[bang] -[Danny groans] Damn it.
[Bear] Okay, there's another.
That's careless, but it sounds like they're pretty close.
Let's go.
[dramatic music plays]
[bang echoes]
[Bear] Wait, wait. Get down. Get down. Who's that?
[suspenseful music plays]
Kola.
Okay, so… almost ran straight into Kola.
[Kola] Okay. [breathing heavily]
[Bear] I'm gonna try and cut him off this side.
Let's go, let's go.
[tense music plays]
[unsettling music plays]
Who's that?
He has got that look in his eye.
He does not wanna be caught.
He is gonna be formidable prey,
but I like a challenge.
-We're gonna get him. -[music fades]
[Boris] What do you rate their chances?
I feel like… Laurence might be having a tough time.
After yesterday, I don't know how much more he has left in the tank.
-[Boris] Yeah. -[Joe] He's the one who's been in before.
-He's got a massive advantage. -[Joe] Yeah.
[Big Zuu] Una has been very worried this whole time.
She might not be as switched on as she should be, as she can be.
Una, I think, has got something in her own mental capacity
that she wants to prove to herself that she can do this
and how strong she is.
She's got a lot of fight in her.
[Big Zuu] Kola, he pushes himself incredibly hard.
Danny has been a captain of multiple rugby teams.
Yeah.
I don't know if Danny is as mentally strong as you think he is.
It has been a while since he's been playing,
and he's gotten himself into this very calm state,
this very, you know, at one with the nature.
Yeah.
But that's not always good when you need to switch on.
-[tense music plays] -[ticking]
[Una] I've reached the green.
I reckon it has to be somewhere around here.
I went for the fence and got lost, and I hadn't a clue where I was.
[breathing heavily]
Oh, hurry up.
But what I saw was an axe.
It has to be this.
I don't know if I'm gonna need it, but I'll take it.
[Holly] Una will need to get to the under-the-fence exit
before she learns which tool she needs to aid her escape.
[Danny] Ooh. Yes. Yeah, I got it now.
This is where I wanna be. The ladders.
I love that.
[breathing heavily]
We've got the map here.
I need to get the slats to the ladder.
[Holly] To escape using the ladder exit,
Danny needs to find a pack of missing rungs
located near the Caiman Pool.
[Danny] Right. Good work. Good work.
[tense music continues]
[music fades]
Look, there's the 4x4.
Okay. [breathes heavily]
Okay.
I have to put the wheel back on.
But… to put the wheel back on,
I've got to find four wing nuts.
Ugh!
The nuts are miles away.
[resonant ping]
[Holly] To escape using the 4x4,
Laurence must reattach the wheel using wheel nuts,
but they are located more than half a kilometer away.
[Laurence] I'm trying to keep low here.
[breathing heavily] 'Cause… we're about to get… quite high up,
and I don't wanna be silhouetted… against the sky.
If this was a seniors' Bear Pit, then let the games begin.
But it's not.
It's me against, probably, three of the fittest competitors
that we've got.
[huffs]
Oh no. Someone else.
Oh, there's Una.
[breathes heavily]
How are you doing?
[Una breathes heavily, whispers] I'm not too sure.
-I can't find what I'm looking for. -What are you looking for?
-Fence? -Yeah.
[Laurence] There. Top of the hill.
-Over there? -Yeah. Smells of wee. Sorry.
[Una chuckles]
Thank you.
-[Laurence] Right. Oh, Una! -[Una] Oop!
[Laurence] Be careful.
[Una] Oh, thank you.
[dramatic music plays]
[whispers] It's the fence. It's the fence. There it is.
[breathes heavily]
I just need this.
I just need this to… to dig it out.
I've got to my exit, and I have to dig.
I have dig to get myself out.
And I think this was a decoy. This is not a spade. It's an axe.
[huffs]
[Holly] The quickest way to exit under the fence
is to dig with the shovel,
but it's on the other side of the pit,
and Una would have to leave the exit unguarded to get it.
[Una] I met Laurence. He pointed me in the direction to the exit.
I'm gonna protect my exit.
And if Laurence comes back here, I'm not gonna let him past.
If that's his exit, I'm literally just gonna lie there, so…
I'm gonna keep going.
I'm gonna start digging with the axe and my hands.
[panting]
Now that I have got this far, I'm not giving up.
I desperately do not want to be caught by Bear.
I do not wanna go home. I'm digging for my life.
[breathing heavily]
[strains]
[dramatic sting]
-Out of the four guys in there… -[Joe] Yeah?
…who would be your toughest competitor?
-See, I think Una's the, like… -Okay.
…fierce Lara Croft one in there.
-I'm not as scared of Danny. -Yeah, I'm not either.
-[Boris] And Kola? -I don't feel like I know him enough yet.
-In terms of gameplay… -[Boris] Yeah?
…he keeps everything tight.
-Kola is playing the game. -Yeah.
-[Big Zuu] Jokey, jokey, "ha-ha-ha." -Yeah.
-No. He wants to win. -Yeah.
Both Kola and Danny are, like… they're impressive physically.
I would say, those two are the… are the biggest competitors we can have,
because I think they're both very strong.
-[tense music plays] -[ticking]
[whispers] I'll get a good place just to wait here.
[breathes heavily]
I've been tracking Kola right across the pit,
but now I've lost him.
Good thing about getting into the trees… is you get better visibility again.
Suddenly, I can see them from, like, 100 meters.
[music fades]
[Kola panting softly]
[bird chatters]
-[foreboding music plays] -Okay, there is Kola.
[dramatic sting]
[whispers] And he's heading right for one of my traps,
so I'm gonna wait here and just see what happens.
[Kola] What is that?
There's a… there's a rope… and a net.
There's a lot of ropes around here.
Well, it's not a clue. It's a trap or something, innit?
It's gotta be. So I'm there. I gotta head that way.
[soft footsteps depart]
No red flag, I ain't touching it, mate.
[unsettling music plays]
Good job, Kola.
He spotted the line. He looked up.
Most people in the jungle never look up.
They're always looking at their feet, terrified of snakes.
But I can guarantee,
not everyone will have his situational awareness to look up.
All right, keep calm.
[Bear whispers] Kola is hyper alert,
and it's almost impossible for me to get close,
so I'm just gonna wait out here, conserve energy.
This would be a good spot to
try and make, like, a… bit of a zip line,
and then, if anybody gets close, I can launch a surprise attack.
[tense, pulsing music plays]
[music fades]
Man… my legs are shot.
I'm fatigued.
I need to conserve some energy.
-[tense music plays] -[resonant pinging]
[sighs deeply]
The fatigue out here is different to rugby,
'cause the heat is consistent,
we're in a new terrain, learning new skills.
I had some difficulty reading the map.
It's an intense environment.
[exhales deeply]
This is far… tougher than it looks.
[resonant ping]
[Una straining]
It is way worse than I thought it was gonna be.
[grunts]
I'm so tired and… just the heat.
I'm in panic mode.
I'm not leaving here, 'cause I'm just protecting my exit.
That's… If I see Bear, I'll run behind that rock.
-[tense music continues] -[Una breathing heavily]
[huffs]
[whispers] It's so hard. I can't look behind me.
Well, what'll we do?
[breathes heavily]
I don't know what I'm gonna do 'cause I… I can hardly breathe
'cause it's so exhausting.
I don't think I can… I can take it any longer because I'm so tired.
[breathing heavily]
So I'm after… [breathes heavily]
I think it's gonna be a box… of wheel nuts.
To be honest, I'd rather have a bowl of mixed nuts and a gin and tonic.
[whispers] I can hear somebody else coming down the road there.
[intriguing music plays]
Laurence
coming down that main track.
Here he comes. Here he comes.
When you're tired, you start taking the path of least resistance.
I can almost guarantee, he's gonna stick on this,
and that… is where I'll get him.
[dramatic music plays]
[whispers] I'm really concerned.
I think this is prime Bear country.
[dramatic music intensifies]
It's like I feel him.
[whispers] Laurence should be directly behind me now.
He hasn't spotted me. That's good. I like that.
[music swells]
[Laurence] Binoculars.
That's not even mine.
[zip line whizzes]
I looked up, and there he was,
and all I could do was stand there.
Ah!
[Bear] Laurence, don't move!
[music rises, fades out]
Okay. One down.
Always the first.
[dramatic sting]
[sighs]
I had… absolutely no clue he'd be up there.
He froze,
and that adrenal freeze that people get when they're scared…
Really, he should have been flight and fight, gone.
And he might well have got away. He had a few seconds on me.
But that adrenal freeze kills.
Second Bear Pit. Caught twice. I don't know whether I'm proud or ashamed.
What Bear now decides for my future is up to Bear.
[despondent music plays]
[gunshot echoes]
[music fades]
-[Steph and Mel B] Ah… -[Big Zuu] Ha ha!
-One's caught. -[Steph] One's caught.
-One's caught. -[Joe] Someone's caught.
-[Boris] One caught. -Oh my God.
[whispers] Just have a little listen.
-[faint footsteps plodding] -[heavy breathing]
Okay.
I can hear some noises coming from over there.
-[tense music plays] -[resonant ping]
I'm just gonna go and try and sweep the northern half of the pit.
Here we go. Here we go.
Found it. Got it.
[Holly] To escape via the ladder exit,
Danny needs to retrieve a set of missing rungs.
-[bang] -[Danny] Ah!
[Holly] But Bear has placed them in a timed trap.
[Danny] Oh, do I untie it?
[sighs] The timer's going.
[huffs] Tick tock. How long is left?
Hey.
[grunts, groans]
[tense music building]
[music swells]
-[clatter] -[music fades]
[Danny grunts]
-[bang echoes] -Oh. Hear that?
That means one of the traps has been triggered, for sure.
[Danny] I think I've taken too long.
So somebody… is caught.
[dramatic sting]
[Danny] Man, it was intense.
I gave it everything I'd got.
Fingers crossed I get another chance
to prove to Bear that I can keep doing this.
-[gunshot echoes] -[Steph] Someone's been caught.
Maybe one of the boys will be caught in a trap.
[tense music plays]
[Bear] Two down, two to go.
Gotta move quickly now.
[dramatic music plays]
I know there's one exit from the Bear Pit up here.
I think we'll try and get close
and then see if somebody's headed for that one.
Come on.
[Una] This is a nightmare. I'm exhausted.
I'm just sort of…
I think I can't put in no more or I'm gonna pass out.
This is the most horrible feeling ever, and I don't have any energy.
I don't know how I'm gonna do this.
[dramatic music continues]
My heart is going so fast.
I was very mindful that Bear could be creeping up behind me.
-[music intensifies] -[resonant pinging]
[breathes heavily, grunts]
When I was young, my biggest fear and nightmares are of being chased.
So I was living my nightmare.
I can't get in. [huffs]
[resonant pinging]
I could see my kids.
I could hear their voices telling me, "Mammy, don't give up. Don't give up."
[grunting]
[music swells]
-[music rises, fades] -Yes!
[high-pitched horn blares]
[Bear] Oh, that means someone's escaped.
-[poignant music plays] -[Una breathing heavily]
That is the hardest thing that I've ever done.
I felt like I was digging my own grave.
Oh my God. [sighs]
Oh my God. [murmurs emotionally]
[breathes shakily]
I committed to my escape, and I got out.
Best feeling in the whole wide world.
Literally.
[resonant ping]
[Bear] Only one person left now.
[ticking]
[Kola] I have no idea what the time is. It's really bugging me.
[softly] This is just like a giant game of cat and mouse.
And in my experience,
the cat always wins.
[tense, dramatic music plays]
-[music abates] -It's so… it's so hard to see.
Best chance, get up high, see if I can pick up any movement.
We're getting close to… end time.
Where are you?
[suspenseful music plays]
Okay, I've got him.
[tense, dramatic music resumes]
To me, he looks tired.
He's got no plan, he doesn't know where he's going,
but he knows I'm on his tail.
[Kola] When Bear's let off the leash, he's not playing around.
I'm not getting caught today.
I can't come back to camp and act the way I act if I've been caught.
He's on me. I can tell. You can smell him.
[Bear] He's moving fast.
[Kola] This is bad. I feel like a rabbit.
[whispers] And there he is. There's Kola.
Oh my God.
[Bear] I'm gonna take him down.
I've gotta go. I've gotta go.
[music rises, fades out]
[dramatic drum music plays]
[music fades out]