‘He does his thing, I do mine’ says Mears. Ray Mears has addressed his long-standing rivalry with Bear Grylls, claiming that he wasn’t aware that his fellow TV host was still making shows. “I think the viewer knows that if you want to really know how to take care of yourself in the wild, I’m the person to talk to,” he told Radio Times.
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“I don’t know [Grylls is still making TV]. I don’t watch [them]. But if he is, good luck to him, because quite frankly right now [the TV world] is a difficult place. A lot of very good people have given up altogether.”. He adds: “He does his thing, I do mine. There’s an old saying, ‘If you blow somebody else’s candle out it doesn’t make yours burn brighter.’ I’ve never wanted to blow his candle out. I don’t mind that he does what he does.”.
Grylls, 50, previously called Mears’ comments about him "rude" and "outrageous" but he conceded that the BBC presenter was “much tougher” than him. Mears, who is a professional woodsman and instructor, began presenting television in the mid-1990s eventually fronting his own shows including Bushcraft and World of Survival.
Grylls began his career in mid-2000s and has been a regular feature on the small screen ever since. Celebrity Bear Hunt, which will air on 5 February on the streaming service, will be presented by Holly Willoughby. The show will revolve around 12 celebrities surviving in the Costa Rican jungle, while Grylls hunts them down like the Predator.
