Saffron Barker thought ‘Celebrity Hunted’ would be “really fake”
Saffron Barker thought Celebrity Hunted would be 'really fake'
The YouTube star competed on the Channel 4 show – where famous faces go on the run to evade an elite team of hunters - alongside stars including James Acaster, 38, Ed Gamble, 37, Bobby Seagull, 39, and Katya Jones, 34, and admitted she presumed the show was set up before she discovered the truth for herself.
The 23-year-old influencer told The Mirror newspaper: "When I first got the show, I thought it was gonna be really fake, I loved the show and I watch it religiously. When I first got it, I was like 'OK, what's actually legit?' and they were like 'Everything' and I thought it can't be. The thing with the celebrity one is they have to show a lot more of like, the entertaining side of it.
"The thing is on the show, there are certain things you have to attend an event or do certain things to make the show entertaining and it also makes it so much harder for you – you can't just camp in the wild for a week! As a viewer, I used to think 'Well why don't you just stay in the woods?' But you can't.”
Saffron admitted that afterwards she “was a different person” for the better.
She said: "The show opened my eyes up, I felt when I left the show, I was a different person but in a good way due to challenging herself.
"You go through so much that you don't see on TV, they don't show the hard bits where you're really struggling and when people close doors on your face. They don't show half of it because it's got to be entertaining. The faith that it gave me in humanity was just crazy after this show. It was crazy, it made me realise I'm tougher than I probably thought I was."
"I had to camp out alone some nights and this is outside of my comfort zone, I had to go knock on somebody's door and ask to stay in their house when I was alone – it gets to a point where you have to do it. It made me a lot more confident as a person."
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