Unwitting Reality Contestants Lived in the Wild for a Year Despite Show’s Cancelation

If you agree to participate in a reality TV show where you live in nature and participate in an experiment, you hope that someone back home is at least watching.

If you’ve had a lackluster experience for months, it’s only right to want to vent to people who know exactly what you’ve been through when you get home.

Well, some reality TV contestants were probably a little more troubled after their show was taken off the air.

In 2016, a British reality TV show came up with the idea of ​​sending 23 men and women to a remote corner of the Scottish Highlands for entertainment.

The Channel 4 programme, entitled Edensent the group into the wild hoping that they would form a community, decide their own rules and laws, find shelter, and grow their own food.

The group had to do this for a year, completely cut off from any contact with the outside world, with personal cameras and stationary equipment to show what was happening in the community.

However, when the show was taken off the air, the contestants were not informed and simply continued living in the wild.

“The call of Eden “It was a real experiment, and when filming began, we had no idea of ​​the results and how the participants would react to being isolated for months in a remote area. of the British Isles,” the channel said in a statement. of the release of the show.

“That’s why we did it, and the story of their times, including the ups and downs, will be shown later this year.”

And there have certainly been plenty of downs with 13 of the 23 contestants leaving the show with reports of sexual jealousy, infighting, bullying and hunger taking their toll. Jheeze definitely seems like a tough time.

When the contestants returned to the modern world, not only did they realize that no one was watching them, but they also saw how the world had undergone major changes. In the United Kingdom in particular, the country voted for Brexit and, on the other side of the Atlantic, Donald Trump became president, two major events which surprised many people.

In an even stranger turn of events, while the show only aired 3 months of Community, a spinoff show a year later examined the rest of the footage.

The show, Eden: paradise lost brought viewers back into the community and showed how things happened.

Topics: Cinema & Television, British News