Discovery Channel’s expanding the Naked and Afraid franchise with Naked and Afraid: Last One Standing, a new competition that pits Naked and Afraid all-stars against each other with a $100,000 prize at stake. The new survival series premieres on Sunday, May 7, 2023 and features 12 all-stars who will be attempting to last 45 days in South Africa’s Oribi Gorge.
Season one of Naked and Afraid: Last One Standing competitors include:
- Matt Wright
- Jeff Zausch
- Cheeny Plante
- Dan Link
- Waz Addy
- Amber Hargrove
- Steven Lee Hall, Jr.
- Sarah Bartell
- Gary Golding
- Gwen Grimes
- Stacey Osorio
- Wes Harper
The Discovery Channel offered this description of the new addition to the Naked and Afraid franchise:
“For the first time ever, survivalists will compete head-to-head through a grueling, multiphase challenge and have their primitive skills tested for the chance to win $100,000. The competition is fierce, as survivalists can use any means necessary – even sabotage – to take home the grand prize. At the end of 45 days, only one can be crowned the Last One Standing.
During Phase One of the challenge, survivalists enter in pairs and must make it through 21 days together. In a huge twist, if a competitor chooses to tap, their partner is also automatically eliminated. Together, they must hunt for food, water, fire, shelter, and – in a franchise first – earn the tools needed to survive.
In Phase Two, the remaining survivalists enter a group challenge to compete both with and against their teammates. With the final phase comes an unprecedented, everyone-out-for-themselves fight to the finish with a grueling 3-day journey to extraction. The winner claims the $100,000 cash prize and earns Naked and Afraid‘s first-ever perfect 10 Primitive Survival Rating.”
Naked and Afraid, which premiered in June 2013, puts two strangers in a survival situation without clothes, food, or water. The popular series explores how people react in incredibly stressful, extreme situations in which they have only their training to draw on to survive. A super-sized edition, Naked and Afraid: XL, launched in 2015, and Naked and Afraid: Solo debuted in March 2023.
