F&$!x&? It’s The Island With Swear Grylls as reality TV show sets bad language record

Reality show The Island With Bear Grylls managed to notch up an impressive 95 swear words in 45 minutes.

The Channel 4 series sees eight men and eight women stranded on an uninhabited island in the Pacific after survival training with Bear. They must fend for themselves – finding food, water and shelter.

The men – Daniel, Simon, Elliot, Patrick, Rizwan, Ben, Chris and Rob (Channel 4)

 

According to The Sun, 2.5 million tuned in for the 9pm start, but just a million made it to the end of the programme.

The series opener on Monday night reportedly included 67 instances of the F-word, 23 uses of ‘s***’ and one C-word.

After Cassie Farrell quit during the episode, her fellow islander Tilly Martin ranted: “You f****** lazy c*** – good, see you later! You’re no good to us! You f****** sign up you do it you d***head!”

Cassie in The Island with Bear Grylls (Channel 4 Television)

 

The swearing left many viewers shocked – and even reaching for the remote.

Just turned The Island over – too much swearing isn’t much fun to watch! F seems to be the only word in one woman’s vocab.

— Julie Collins (@juliec148_julie) March 28, 2016

 

In fact, some were distinctly unimpressed.

Watching the island and the amount of swearing is a joke

— Matty W (@matt_williamsss) March 28, 2016

 

Watching The Island With Bear Grylls. Good but disappointed that both the women and men can’t string two words together without swearing.

— Dave Birty (@BirtyDave) March 28, 2016

 

It even put off future applicants…

I’d like to do the Island with Bear Grylls but I’d have a real problem with the personalities and all the swearing.

— lori sutton (@lori_sutton) March 28, 2016

 

Although some were more forgiving.

#The Island Swearing is natural amongst different individuals..All walks of life are in there

— Sandra Watson (@SandraW52185471) March 28, 2016

 

The potty-mouthed islanders may well have broken a record – as this is believed to be the highest number of swear words in a single episode of a British show.

But it comes nowhere near the world record, which is held by US comedy show Strutter.

Channel 4 told The Sun: “The show was preceded by a warning of strong language throughout and it was appropriately scheduled after the watershed.”

Bear Grylls (Channel 4)