What happened behind the scenes of Man vs. Wild when reports claimed Bear Grylls was staying in hotels instead of sleeping in the wilderness?

In this episode of Switch to Channel 2, Donny McGuire sits down with veteran executive producer and showrunner Steve Rankin for a revealing, hilarious and refreshingly honest conversation about Man vs. Wild, Naked and Afraid, Onside: Major League Soccer and more than four decades in television production.

Only two weeks into his first season on Man vs. Wild, Steve received a call from the Daily Mail seeking comment about an upcoming Mail on Sunday story. The allegations claimed that Bear Grylls had stayed in hotels, eaten blueberry muffins and received more production assistance than viewers realized.

The story exploded into a major reality television controversy. Steve explains why produc ...