Mel B says being hunted by Bear Grylls for Netflix series like a ‘nightmare’

Spice Girl Melanie Brown has said being hunted by Bear Grylls for a caller Netflix bid was the “scariest thing” and akin to a “nightmare”.

Celebrity Bear Hunt, hosted by erstwhile This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby, sees celebrated faces dropped into the jungle and go prey for endurance adept Grylls.

The contestants enactment successful a lodge and are pursued by Grylls, 50, erstwhile they participate the Bear Pit, wherever they are fixed a representation and antithetic options for escape.

Brown, 49, told the PA quality agency: “It was the worst, astir scariest thing.

“It’s similar 1 of those dreams that you cognize is simply a dream, and it’s a nightmare, but it’s really true.”

She continued: “At 1 constituent helium was up there, and I was underneath the rock, and I could perceive him breathing, and I’m thinking, ‘Do I move? Don’t I move?’

“It’s similar axenic panic and past erstwhile you cognize he’s connected to you, you commencement to tally similar the panthers and anticipation that you don’t autumn implicit and harm immoderate portion of your assemblage due to the fact that erstwhile helium starts moving astatine you, that is it.

“And I didn’t adjacent cognize helium could tally that fast.”

Irish vocalist Una Healy told PA the Bear Pit “was similar a fearfulness film”, adding: “It’s scary looking connected the outside, and past you spell successful to the implicit unknown.

“You’re fixed a map, and you conscionable don’t know, similar you get mislaid successful there, the Bear Pit’s really, conscionable truthful big.”

The terrain successful Costa Rica, wherever the amusement was filmed, meant that the competitors besides faced injuries.

TV presenter Steph McGovern said: “I was permanently covered successful bruises, my archetypal happening wherever I get caught by Bear, I managed to get his manus people successful bruises connected my legs.

“I mean, I bruise easily, helium was conscionable doing his job.

“So I’m covered, you’ll spot throughout, my legs are conscionable covered successful bruises the full time.

“But the main wounded was erstwhile I fell disconnected a cliff and deed a partition and past benignant of wounded my chemoreceptor and worldly similar that.

“And again, I had the world’s biggest bruise connected my bum.”

Presenter Willoughby, 43, said each of the contestants amazed her and suggested that radical mightiness “underestimate” the pistillate celebrities competing.

“You can’t assistance but person erstwhile expectations of each of them really,” she told PA. “You benignant of person an thought successful your caput ‘Well, that person’s gonna beryllium similar this, oregon I’ve seen that idiosyncratic doing this benignant of thing’, and I deliberation we’re each a spot blameworthy of putting radical successful boxes.

“And actually, each of them amazed me.”

Grylls added: “I got a existent footwear retired of seeing radical similar Shirley (Ballas) truly travel alive.

“So I deliberation she benignant of arrived a small backmost foot, feeling she’s older than everyone else, she’s ne'er done thing similar this before. How’s she going to cope?

“But actually, truthful overmuch of endurance and escapade is simply a authorities of mind, it’s however you attack stuff.

“And you can’t get to beryllium astatine that level of her assemblage and dancing without having a streak of steel, being committed, brave, bully nether pressure. So she started to truly grow.”

Willoughby added: “All the girls, really, due to the fact that I deliberation sometimes you think, you enactment girls successful that environment, and radical underestimate immoderate of the girls, you know, similar Lottie (Moss) and those girls.

“You look astatine this beauteous girl, and you think, is she made of immoderate pugnacious stuff? And I archer you what, she’ll astonishment you successful there.”

The different competitors see exemplary Leomie Anderson, Ted Lasso prima Kola Bokinni and TV interior decorator Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.

TV cook Big Zuu, The Inbetweeners histrion Joe Thomas, erstwhile tennis subordinate Boris Becker and retired rugby subordinate Danny Cipriani implicit the line-up.

Celebrity Bear Hunt is connected Netflix from February 5.