Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's terrifying Celeb Bear Hunt incident gave him a 'heart attack'

Interior decorator Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen suffered a horrific mishap portion filming Netflix' Celebrity Bear Hunt that near him fearing helium was having a bosom attack

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen truly enactment himself to the trial by taking portion successful Celebrity Bear Hunt, and astatine 1 constituent thought helium was having a bosom attack.

The interior decorator is taking portion successful the new Netflix series, which sees a fig of celebrated faces caput to Costa Rica to instrumentality connected challenges arsenic they larn endurance skills. It is hosted by Bear Grylls and Holly Willoughby and the celebrities indispensable effort to debar being caught by the endurance expert.

However, the bid hasn't been creaseless sailing arsenic reports person emerged 1 personage was forced to retreat owed to sustaining an injury. Laurence besides endured an alarming incidental involving a bungee cord, wherever helium astir drowned. Speaking of the terrifying incident, Laurence revealed: "In my head, I was immoderate benignant of Marvel superhero.

"Actually, by the clip I got to the raft that I was expected to aquatics to, it dawned connected maine rather quickly, I'm really Granddaddy Pig and getting onto the raft was ne'er going to happen. I got stuck nether the raft. I got tangled up successful immoderate instrumentality and worldly and that's erstwhile the drowning happening benignant of happened.

"But I managed to escaped myself. I should person stopped astatine that constituent and conscionable benignant of gathered myself but actually, no, I was past throwing myself into the situation and past I started blacking retired and suddenly, I've got Bear connected apical of me." While connected Times Radio, helium added: "I didn't really person to beryllium resuscitated.

"Bear was puckering up, helium was bearing down connected maine similar a bedewed container of spanners, much than blessed to resuscitate me, but actually, I came to, astatine that point." Laurence thought helium was suffering a bosom onslaught arsenic helium shared: "It wasn't a pleasant acquisition astatine all. I mean, it really, truly wasn't. I was blacking out. I thought I was having a bosom attack.

"And having past been pumped afloat of, I deliberation it's astir 3 canisters of oxygen, which is fantastic worldly by the way...but it was a precise solitary thing. I ever felt that I was rather physically resilient. I person regular medicals. I'm perceived arsenic being reasonably acceptable for what I americium but it did consciousness somewhat similar a infinitesimal of failure."

Reports emerged that Laurence was leaping from a vessel and into a stream erstwhile the cord became stuck underneath the vessel, causing him to go entangled. Laurence was pulled underwater for respective minutes, earlier members of the accumulation squad leapt into enactment aft helium reportedly mislaid consciousness.

Executive shaper of the show, Ben Mitchell said: "There was a precise scary infinitesimal with Laurence." Ben went connected to add: "The celebs had to leap disconnected a moving speedboat SAS-style. I deliberation helium had rather a hard landing and was a spot shocked successful the water. He thought helium was having a bosom attack."

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