Bear Grylls: “Being sent away to boarding school aged eight – for me it wasn’t a choice”
In the mood to share: Bear Grylls admits to Louis Theroux that some of his early extreme-survival films were possibly amped up a little for the cameras. Photograph: Neil Harvey/Mindhouse/BBCBear Grylls is a hero to 10-year-old boys of every age. Whether abseiling, free-falling or guzzling his wee as a desert-survival technique, he is a boy’s own adventure made flesh, an SAS recruitment video reborn as high-fiving celebrity.
For his troubles he is, naturally, loved and loathed in equal measure. But what’s he like under the outback muck and officer’s-mess dash? That is the question Louis Theroux sets out to answer in the most successful episode so far of Louis Theroux Interviews… . It no doubt helps that Theroux and Grylls have a certain amount in common, such as being the privately educated offspring of successful parents – in Louis’s case the author Paul Theroux, in Grylls’s the late Conservative MP Michael Grylls
Theroux’s singular style involves nerdishly hovering on the periphery of a celebrity and quietly taking it all in. The approach has served him well across a near 30-year TV career – though there have been problems, too. The presenter would say himself that he gave Jimmy Savile an, for example, even though Savile’s crimes had yet to become common knowledge.
Theroux seemed initially out of his comfort zone in his new series. A sit-down with Stormzy revealed only how badly Louis Theroux seemed to want Stormzy to like him. He didn’t ask any difficult questions. He also committed the ultimate interviewer’s sin of asking whether Stormzy was comfortable with how the conversation was proceeding. Never offer your subject an easy way out.
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