Bear Grylls praises ‘remarkable, humble and brave’ Holly Willoughby after year of hell as their huge new show launches

BEAR Grylls has heaped praise connected his Netflix co-star Holly Willoughby aft a hellish clip that saw her astatine the unfortunate of a kidnap plot.

Today, the pair's immense caller amusement Bear Hunt launches globally connected the streaming platform, and Bear appeared connected Good Morning Britain to speech astir it.

He was inevitably asked astir TV queen Holly and couldn't person been much effusive successful his praise.

Bear said: "Holly has a beauteous spirit, she's flooded galore pugnacious things successful her life. All of america are retired of our comfortableness zone.

"The jungle challenges america and builds america up. I came distant astatine the extremity reasoning singular lady, humble brave, often talks herself down."

For her part, Holly said she felt safer successful the narco authorities of Costa Rica portion filming the amusement than she did successful the UK pursuing the crippled to termination her.

She made Celebrity Bear Hunt successful the Central American state wherever the fig of drug-related killings, hijackings and different crimes are sky high.

But Holly said she recovered it an flight aft the whirlwind of attraction astir her astatine the clip pursuing her departure from This Morning successful October 2023 erstwhile she learned astir 37-year-old information defender Gavin Plumb’s horrific plot.

Holly, 43, said: “It was conscionable rather nice to beryllium immersed successful that and being distant from everything, being that overmuch successful the jungle, successful nature, wherever your telephone doesn’t enactment and being disconnected from stuff.

“And actually, successful immoderate ways, it felt safer being determination than it did being backmost here.”

The eight-part Netflix bid features 12 celebrated faces — including Mel B, Lottie Moss, Una Healy, Boris Becker and Shirley Ballas — who person to evade seizure by endurance adept Bear.

Holly added: “I was lasting next to Bear Grylls, I felt wholly safe. It doesn’t get overmuch safer. I’m like, ‘Don’t archer maine (about the dangers here) delight don’t archer me’.”

Speaking astir Plumb, who was jailed for life with a 16-year minimum word past year, Holly said: “When thing similar that happens, you person a determination to make.

“You either decide, ‘Right, I tin instrumentality this connected committee and it tin perfectly impact each aspects of my life’. Or I tin marque a prime to go, ‘Let’s absorption connected everything that’s affirmative and good’.”

She besides said that signing up for Celebrity Bear Hunt felt similar the commencement of a caller section for her.

The telly favourite added: “I’d conscionable got to that signifier successful my beingness wherever I thought, ‘I privation to effort thing new’. I was tense astir it, due to the fact that it was a existent departure from what I usually do.

"Everything you bash and everything that feels caller ever feels similar a caller chapter.”

It is besides the archetypal clip she has presented solo for immoderate time.

But she said: “Really, I ne'er consciousness similar I’m connected my own, due to the fact that you’re either talking to the camera, which feels similar you’re talking to someone, oregon you’re with the celebrities similar I americium connected this.

“I ever effort to find a transportation somewhere.”