Bear Grylls
British adventurer
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| 2025 | Bear Grylls is set to star in a new reality competition series on Netflix, which will be presented by Holly Willoughby. |
| 2024 | Bear Grylls was succeeded as Chief Scout by Dwayne Fields. |
| 2024 | Expressed pride in his Irish citizenship in an interview with The Irish Times. |
| September 2024 | Completed his tenure as Chief Scout, becoming the second-longest-serving Chief Scout after Robert Baden-Powell. |
| April 2024 | Appointed honorary colonel of the Army Foundation College, receiving a commission in the British Army as a local colonel for the duration of the appointment. |
| September 2023 | Published 'How to be a Scout'. |
| July 9 2023 | The second season of 'Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge' was released, continuing the spin-off series. |
| April 2023 | Released 'You Vs the World: The Bear Grylls Guide to Never Giving Up', a motivational book for children. |
| March 29 2023 | Bear Grylls became an ambassador for the UNITED24 platform, collaborating with BecomingX, Amazon, and Accenture to develop the BecomingX Ukraine learning platform for Ukrainians. |
| March 28 2023 | Grylls travels to Ukraine for a Channel 4 documentary, meeting President Zelenskyy and civilians impacted by the Russia-Ukraine war. |
| 2022 | Published 'Mind Fuel: Simple Ways to Build Mental Resilience Every Day', focusing on mental health practices. |
| July 2022 | Bear Grylls premiered 'Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge', a spin-off of his long-running Running Wild with Bear Grylls series. |
| 2021 | Hosted a two-part ITV series called 'Bear Grylls Wild Adventure', featuring rugby player Jonny Wilkinson and boxer Nicola Adams as guests during the spring season. |
| October 2021 | Released his second autobiography 'Never Give Up', covering memorable events and adventures. |
| June 2021 | Promoted to honorary colonel in the Royal Marines Reserve. |
| August 14 2020 | Bear Grylls presented the revival of the Eco-Challenge series, 'World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji', which premiered on Amazon Prime Video. The series featured teams from around the world competing in an adventure race set in Fiji. |
| January 2020 | Announced obtaining Irish citizenship and passport. |
| 2019 | Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Birthday Honours for services to young people, media, and charity. |
| 2019 | Published a Christian devotional book titled 'Soul Fuel'. |
| 2019 | During the course of the series, £100,000 was parachuted from the air to the island for the participants to find. |
| 2019 | Episode 44, titled 'Surviving Treasure Island', aired as the last ever episode of the series. |
| September 22 2019 | Channel 4 announced that The Island would not return for a seventh series in 2020, originally planned but ultimately canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| September 8 2019 | The sixth series of 'The Island with Bear Grylls' premiered, featuring 6 episodes. |
| September 8 2019 | The sixth series, now renamed Treasure Island with Bear Grylls, started airing, marking the first series to involve cash prizes for participants. |
| August 2019 | Bear Grylls appears in a special episode with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, filmed in Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand. The episode was broadcast in over 180 countries on the Discovery, Inc. network. |
| February 2019 | It was announced that for the first time there would be a winners cash prize in the sixth series of the show, and that the islanders would compete against each other. |
| 2018 | ITV began airing the new television series 'Bear's Mission with...', which features Bear Grylls taking a different British celebrity on an overnight adventure in each episode. |
| 2018 | The celebrity series of Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls concluded, having run from 18 September 2016 to 7 October 2018. |
| 2018 | The fifth series involved participants from different social classes based on their annual salary earnings. |
| November 16 2018 | The World Organization of the Scout Movement appointed Bear Grylls as its first Chief Ambassador of World Scouting. |
| September 2018 | Bear Grylls Ventures and NM Capital acquired British Military Fitness, rebranding it as 'Be Military Fit with Bear Grylls', transforming it into Europe's largest outdoor fitness company with classes in 140 public parks and outdoor spaces across the United Kingdom. |
| May 1 2018 | It was confirmed that The Island would return for a sixth and final series, which would be titled Treasure Island with Bear Grylls and set to air on 8 September 2019. |
| April 2 2018 | The fifth series of 'The Island with Bear Grylls' aired, consisting of 6 episodes. |
| 2017 | The fourth series focused on age rather than gender, featuring separate tribes of older participants (ages 30 to 66) against younger participants (ages 18 to 30). |
| May 17 2017 | The Spanish adaptation of the show, titled 'La Isla', premiered on laSexta. |
| May 3 2017 | It was confirmed that a second series of Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls would be produced, which aired later in August 2017, continuing the campaign to raise money for Stand Up to Cancer. |
| April 23 2017 | The fourth series of 'The Island with Bear Grylls' started, with 6 episodes. |
| 2016 | Published the thriller novel 'Burning Angels', a follow-up to Ghost Flight. |
| 2016 | The third series continued the gender divide theme, with eight men and eight women abandoned on opposite sides of a single island. |
| September 2016 | The celebrity spin-off version, Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls, was first broadcast as part of a charity campaign for Stand Up to Cancer UK. |
| May 30 2016 | ITV announced the cancellation of Bear Grylls: Mission Survive after two series due to falling ratings in the second series. |
| April 7 2016 | Series 2 finale: Alex Scott was crowned the winner, with Jason Gardiner and Samantha Barks as runners-up. |
| March 31 2016 | Michelle Collins was eliminated fourth from the show. |
| March 28 2016 | The third series of 'The Island with Bear Grylls' was launched, including 7 episodes. |
| March 17 2016 | Neil Morrissey was eliminated third from the show. |
| March 10 2016 | Stuart Pearce was eliminated second from the show. |
| March 3 2016 | Series 2 of Bear Grylls: Mission Survive premiered. Chelsee Healey was eliminated first on this date. |
| February 18 2016 | Seven celebrities for Bear Grylls: Mission Survive Series 2 were announced, including Chelsee Healey, Stuart Pearce, Neil Morrissey, Michelle Collins, Jason Gardiner, Samantha Barks, and Alex Scott. |
| January 21 2016 | The Dutch adaptation of the show, titled 'The Island', premiered on Net5. |
| 2015 | Released his first thriller novel 'Ghost Flight', featuring the character Will Jaeger. |
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