Nine contestants will attempt to survive in the wild sans clothing on the new addition to the Naked and Afraid franchise, Naked and Afraid Castaways. The survivalists will be brought to a remote island in the Pacific Ocean and left without any tools, maps, or supplies. The only items they can use are what they manage to scavage from wreckage.
Naked and Afraid Castaways will premiere on July 30, 2023 on Discovery Channel. New episodes air on Sundays at 8pm ET/PT.
Discovery Channel provided this description of the new series and the season one competitors:
Nine challengers are abandoned at a remote tropical island, with no maps or tools, miles away from civilization. In teams of three, they must swim to different ecosystems on the same island – sun-scorched beach, twisted mangrove swamp and dense jungle – to begin their distinct survival journeys. They must use only their navigational skills and fashion everything they need to survive from wreckage and debris strewn across the island, including a shipwreck, an abandoned military jeep and a crashed airplane. Without knives, pots, and fire starters, challengers will need to scavenge the area to find what they need to create those items from scratch, using only their ingenuity and will to survive.
In a Naked and Afraid franchise first, remaining survivalists will need to travel to the same extraction point on Day 21 and signal a boat for rescue.
Here is the combustible mix of personalities who will either come together – or fall apart – in the effort to make it 21 days while Naked and Afraid:
- Kerra Bennett (Nashville, TN)
- Patrick French (Canterbury, NH)
- Justin Governale (San Antonio, TX)
- Bulent Gurcan (Point Roberts, WA)
- Na’im McKee (Aurora, CO)
- Candice Mishler (North Phoenix, AZ)
- Andrew Shayde (Lexington, KY)
- Heather Smith (Brookeland, TX)
- Rachel Strohl (Oahu, HI)
