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    Surviving the wilderness with out a sew of clothes is difficult, as Bare and Afraid, Discovery’s hit survival franchise, reveals time and time once more.

    So, there needs to be just a little monetary incentive for these courageous souls, proper? Nicely… maybe much less incentive thanks suppose. Beneath, with the collection presently airing its 18th season, we’re answering a few of followers’ frequently-asked questions concerning the docuseries and its spinoffs, which embody Bare and Afraid: Solo and Bare and Afraid XL.

    What’s the necklace that Bare and Afraid contestants put on?

    The bead on the necklace that the contestants put on holds a microphone, and that microphone connects to a wi-fi transmitter of their satchels, based on The Denver Submit. “That’s why we are able to’t modify this bag [and] we are able to’t take it off,” contestant Dani Beau defined to TikTok viewers in 2022. “We now have to put on it.”

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    Do contestants ever hook up?

    “That’s the largest query I get,” contestant Alyssa Ballestero informed Individuals in 2022. “The reply isn’t any. That’s not what occurs on the market. Everyone seems to be soiled and drained; it doesn’t actually occur.”

    Added costar Stacey Lee Osorio, “You haven’t any libido on the market in any respect. It’s actually not a sexual expertise.”

    Do contestants receives a commission?

    Ballestero and Osorio revealed to Individuals that individuals get just a few thousand {dollars} and that it’s extra concerning the expertise than the cash.

    “We’re taking them away from their job, and we notice that,” casting director Kristi Russell informed Channel Information Journal in 2015. “And so we give them a weekly stipend to compensate for his or her misplaced wages.”

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    Do contestants know the place they’re going forward of time?

    “Typically they do, and typically they don’t,” Russell mentioned. “It is determined by the situation. If the situation has very particular survival necessities, we’ll give them a really quick quantity of discover in order that they’ve time to adequately perform some research and provides themselves the most effective probability for survival. And typically with advance discover of the place they’re going, they subsequently can tailor their merchandise [the one item the contestants are allowed to bring] accordingly.”

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    Do contestants get tampons?

    “They provide us tampons!” Ballestero revealed to Refinery29 in 2016. “Our one saving grace is that it’s tv, so that they don’t need viewers to see… that. However for me, my physique was so malnourished from an absence of meals and water that I didn’t even get my interval.”

    What’s the worst half concerning the Bare and Afraid expertise?

    For contestant Paolo Di Girolamo, it was the starvation. “I psychologically ready myself for not seeing family and friends, in order that wasn’t too unhealthy, however not consuming took a much bigger toll than anticipated,” Di Girolamo wrote in a 2018 Reddit AMA. “On the second day, I had just a little inner freakout after I realized the one method I used to be going to eat was to hunt or forage sufficient to feed myself and Kristin [Young]. This was throughout the dry season. [I] misplaced 35 kilos.”

    Do crew members actually not feed the contestants?

    “Not even just a little bit!” Di Girolamo informed followers. “There was at some point the place I barely had the power to face and was laying down within the shade. The digicam crew acquired the lens proper on my face and was attempting to get me to be lively. I might hardly suppose, not to mention play Tarzan.”

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    And, maybe most significantly, what do contestants use as an alternative of bathroom paper?

    In a 2020 function on the Discovery web site, Sara Burkett beneficial utilizing “good fluffy moss and enormous leaves” in lieu of bathroom paper, whereas Lauren Fagen suggested doing a handstand below a waterfall, calling it “nature’s bidet.”

    Eva Rupert supplied another within the 2014 particular Bare and Awkward (by way of E! Information): “I’m very adamant about the truth that a clean stone is completely the most effective butt-wiping squeegee on the face of the planet,” she mentioned.

    Bare and Afraid, Sundays, 8/7c, Discovery Channel





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