When is Bear’s Mission With Rob Brydon on ITV tonight and what is the Bear Grylls survival show about?
BEAR Grylls is taking another famous person out into the wild to make them suffer in the name of survival.
This time around poor Rob Brydon is being tossed out of a helicopter. Here's the lowdown...
When is Bear’s Mission With Rob Brydon on ITV and what's the Bear Grylls survival show about?
Bear's Mission With Rob Brydon will be shown on ITV on Friday November 3 at 9pm on ITV (TONIGHT).
It will see survival hero Bear Grylls, 43, take comedian Rob Brydon, 52, on a perilous expedition of a lifetime across Snowdonia in his native Wales.
Tonight's show goes head-to-head with Have I Got News For You on BBC One, MOTD: FA Cup First Round on BBC Two, Gogglebox: Celebrity Special For SU2C on Channel 4 and Eight Days That Made Rome on Channel 5.
If you miss it you can catch up on ITV Hub.
What did Rob Brydon have to go through during filming for the show?
First off, the Welshman has to jump out of a helicopter 30 feet down into a freezing cold lake below.
The pair then have to abseil into a sink hole which spans 450 feet across and has a depth of 200 feet.
Rob isn't sure about it, but when Bear drops their supplies and food down into the hole they have no choice but to follow.
The Gavin & Stacey actor also has to endure a freezing night in a the skeleton of an abandoned minor's cottage and an escape climb up a near-vertical mineshaft.
Upon beginning the challenge, Rob joked: "This is reminding me when I was about six. I joined the Cubs for a week and left because it was too rough. So this really is a chance for me to redeem that little boy that wimped out of the Cubs.
"If I have to die anywhere – Wales."
Who is Rob Brydon?
Robert Brydon Jones is a comedian and actor from Port Talbot in Wales.
Before his career began, Rob studied at The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff but left after just a year to join Radio Wales where he worked as a DJ for six years.
Rob then started work as a voice over artist and lent his vocals to ads including those for Tango, Renault, Tesco, Sainsbury's, McDonald's, Pot Noodle and Domino's Pizza.
In the early 1990s, he was a presenter for the Home Shopping Network and a few years later landed small roles in films suchs as First Knight and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
He is perhaps best-known for his Gavin and Stacey role as Bryn West, which he played from 2007 to 2010.
But he also starred in comedy series Human Remains, Marion And Geoff, Black Books, I'm Alan Partridge, Supernova and Little Britain as well as appearing on shows like Have I Got News For You, Big Fat Quiz of the Year, Top Gear and QI.
In 2010, he and Steve Coogan made a show called The Trip which followed the pair of them on a restaurant tour of England and which got a follow-up series set in Italy.
Rob has three children, daughters Katie and Amy and son Harry, from his first marriage to Martina Jones.
They divorced in 2000 and six years later he married TV producer Claire Holland with whom he has two sons, Tom and George.
He was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and an MBE in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to comedy and broadcasting and for charitable services.
Who is Bear Grylls?
Bear Grylls is an adventurer, writer and television presenter.
He is most popular for his television series Man vs. Wild, originally titled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls in the United Kingdom.
Celebrities who have famously appeared on his shows include Friend's star Courtney Cox and Barack Obama.
His other shows include The Island with Bear Grylls and Running Wild with Bear Grylls.
