TV'S BEAR-FACED LIARS

By Mark Jefferies Mark.Jefferies@Mirror.Co.Uk 23/07/2007

Bear Grylls (C4)

TV CHIEFS were plunged deeper into crisis last night as new evidence emerged of programmes being faked.

RDF Media - already in trouble over a royal documentary - are accused of manipulating families on shows such as Wife Swap.

And ex-SAS adventurer Bear Grylls is exposed for staying in lodges and hotels when he was supposed to be roughing it.

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Grylls, 33, gave the impression on C4's Born Survivor that he was a "real life Robinson Crusoe" trapped on a Hawaiian desert island.

In fact he was spending nights in a motel.

In another episode of the series, broadcast in March, he was shown in California's Sierra Nevada mountains biting off a snake's head for breakfast and claiming to have just water and flint for survival.

But yesterday it emerged he was staying overnight in a lodge with internet access.

C4 has confirmed that Grylls used hotels during expeditions and has asked production company Diverse to look into other claims.