Alone viewers disgusted by graphic close-ups of ravenous contestant slaughtering and eating squirrel

VIEWERS of survival programme Alone were left utterly disgusted over brutal scenes of a contestant shooting and then eating a wild squirrel.

The new Channel 4 series places 11 contestants in the deep depths of Canadian woodland where they are forced to fend for themselves and live totally alone.

Surrounded by bears and moose, they have to take every opportunity to defend themselves as well as keeping a small basic camp for themselves up and running.

The last person to remain in the remote wilderness will bag themselves a cool £100,000.

In the latest episode, builder Louie, 28, was left starving and was keen to begin hunting for his own food.

The only contestant armed with a bow and arrow, he took to exploring in a desperate bid to find food.

Spying a squirrel in a tree, he was quick to take aim and shoot it down.

Initially believing that it had managed to escape, later that day he discovered the dead animal by the tree where it lived.

In a shockingly close-up scene, Louis then showed off the squirrel to the camera as he confessed how he had “shot its leg off”.

Louie went onto cook the animal and eat every last part of it.

Despite initially leaving the head, Louie was so hungry that he went onto eat its eyeballs and all the meat on its face, leaving nothing but a jaw and a skull.

Proud of his achievements, viewers were left horrified as he said: “I’ve eaten every piece of muscle of that face plus his eyeballs.”

Commenting on the scenes online, one viewer wrote: “Yes thank you, we don’t need that in close up.”

Another added: “The squirrel eyeball eating though?!”

As a third penned: “The poor squirrel.”

Louie went onto confess that he was keen to hunt more animals in a bid to remain on the show the longest.