Bear Grylls taken ill at hospital after eating ordinary food

The presenter and ex-SAS marine is said to be conscious and in a stable condition at St Mary’s Hospital after a small seizure caused by eating a granary baguette with tuna mayo, cucumber and some chilli sauce.

Accident and Emergency consultant Raj Mistry confirmed “Bear [Grylls] had spent six months eating all kinds of weird and wonderful things. When you go from eating raw Koala, snake and beetle grubs to eating your mum’s roast dinner it’s no wonder it’s a shock to the system. He probably didn’t even wash his hands after wiping his ass with a eucalyptus leaf either.”

Grylls’s M.O for the series is to be as sensationalist and remarkably masculine as possible, living off the land in perilous places like the Australian Bush, the jungles of Sumatra and Edinburgh city centre, eating any number of toxic plants and wild animals. Traditionally Grylls has to kill animals with his bear hands or a knife, depending on how impressive it makes him look.

At one point during filming in Northern Queensland Grylls was filmed on his knees poking a termite mound with his tongue.

Whilst in hospital Grylls also confirmed the rumour that he stayed in a TravelLodge during a supposed shoot in Canada, but reminded reporters that staying in a Travel Lodge is, in most respects, more life threatening than staying in the Canadian Wilderness.