The Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas takes brutal swipe at Bear Grylls after filming present with him

Anybody participating in a present with Bear Grylls should carry a peg for his or her nostril, in line with The Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas.

The actor and comic, greatest identified for his function as Simon Cooper within the hit sitcom, appeared on Celeb Bear Hunt alongside celebrities reminiscent of Mel B, Boris Becker and Una Healy, who had been among the many dozen stars who ‘turned prey’ for Grylls within the competitors present.

The Netflix collection, which was axed after only one season, noticed a bunch of well-known faces navigate the Costa Rican jungle whereas aiming to evade being captured by the survival skilled.

Thomas, 41, reckons that Grylls went to excessive lengths to make sure he might creep up on contestants, reminiscent of ‘not washing in any respect’ for camouflage functions.

Branding the 51-year-old adventurer ‘very smelly’, the actor described the ‘disgusting scent’ he claims he was pressured to endure in vivid element.

“He’s very smelly,” Thomas told The Solar. “There was a bit the place he blindfolded me utilizing the factor he’d have round his neck, I imply that sounds fairly kinky, and genuinely he was just like the f****** smelliest factor I’ve ever…I imply, disgusting.

“I genuinely suppose he won’t wash in any respect as a result of he’s making an attempt to camouflage himself, and he’s like, for those who scent good, that’s when the animals scent you.

“So I genuinely suppose he won’t have washed. That was the smelliest factor I’ve ever smelled.

“It was prefer it’d gone past like previous sweat. It was into an entire type of new spectrum of smells, in order that was a second.”

Though it is likely to be probably the most savage description of Grylls’ pungent scent that we have seen up to now, it isn’t the primary time {that a} movie star has commented on the TV star’s ‘intense’ aroma.

Rapper Large Zuu additionally appeared on Celeb Bear Hunt alongside Thomas and received the competitors collection, beating out the likes of Ted Lasso actor Kola Bokinni, presenter Steph McGovern, and mannequin Lottie Moss.

Grylls rewarded his victory with fairly an uncommon trophy, which he claimed stunk to the excessive heavens.

The 30-year-old was handed a rope by the explorer, which was mentioned to be a ‘symbolic’ prize to mark his triumph.

Talking to Metro about what he considered with the weird honour he had been awarded, Large Zuu said in February: “Nicely, the rope smells like Bear Grylls, however be warned: that’s an intense flavour.

“He wore that rope by means of all the last, so when he gave it to me, I used to be like, ‘This smells like BO’.

“The rope was hung up in my home, and it’s like a bizarre little mantlepiece.

“Folks will say, ‘Brother, what’s that rope?’ However for me it represents power, data, integrity, and unity but additionally…why not get a trophy? I desire a trophy.”

It seems like Grylls shall be getting a sh*tload of Lynx units this Christmas…and maybe a e-book on the significance of correct trophies from Large Zuu.

LADbible has contacted Grylls’ representatives for remark.