What did you miss?
Ben Fogle has revealed he had a close to miss with a lethal venomous snake when he was making his new present Into The Congo.
The TV adventurer explores the “beating heart of Africa” in his Channel 5 documentary sequence, and mentioned the tip product was “beautiful” because it exhibits viewers “all sides of the Congo”. Opening up on The One Show, he informed how moved he was by the expertise and mentioned he had made associates for all times.
However, the star admitted there was one second that would have gone very fallacious.
What, how, and why?
Fogle mentioned he had the shut name when he went out fishing with the Mbendjele folks, who he was staying with within the Congo.
They confirmed him how they’d fish by making little dams in tiny streams. “The fish that they catch are tiny,” he mentioned. “They are like an inch long.
“I mistook a very small snake for one of the fish and they all warned me that if I had been bitten that would have been it. You know, it was a deadly snake.”
“The end of Fogle!” mentioned presenter Alex Jones, wanting shocked. “That could have been the end of me, I know!” replied the star. “Strange way to go!”
As he informed the scary story, a clip was performed that confirmed Fogle fishing and serving to out, earlier than the snake was noticed wriggling within the mud. “Don’t touch it!” one man warned the star.
What else did Ben Fogle say on The One Show?
Fogle has been exploring the world for years in exhibits resembling Wild In Africa and Extreme Dreams. Asked in regards to the largest “pinch me moment” of his profession, the presenter mentioned it was climbing Mount Everest in 2018.
He mentioned: “I think when I finally summited Everest, when I stood on the top of the highest mountain in the world. For me, who was a bit of a failure at school, who was hopeless at sport, I was one of the dweebs you know, wasn’t very sure of myself, to finally reach that point that I dreamed of all my life really was a moment that I will never ever ever forget.”
“It was amazing,” he added.
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