By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED 22 08 EST 24 June 2013 UPDATED 22 08 EST 24 June 2013
An executive producer behind new reality show Naked and Afraid which involves contestants being dropped in the jungle without food water or clothing has said that nudity on the program was never mean to be 'exploitative'.
Each week a new pair of complete strangers one man and one woman find themselves stranded in and quite literally exposed to some of the world's most extreme weather environments.
An executive producer on the Discovery show which started last Sunday explained that the nudity on the show is not exploitative but merely part of creating a realistic wilderness experience.
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Grimy The contestants on Naked and Afraid had never met before being teamed up to survive in the jungle. Kim Shelton and Shane Lewis can't hide their exhaustion
Survival of the fittest Nude castaways star on Discovery's Naked and Afraid.
When asked if she thought that nudity would get more people watching the show Discovery producer Denise Contis told salon.com 'Well we didn t develop the show to be exploitative ever.
'We always developed it with our filter being ''how do we protect and it make it a pure survival experience '''
The contestants private parts are blurred when the show is broadcast.
Naked and Afraid is billed as taking 'survival of the fittest' to the next level and dubbed 'the Everest of survival challenges'.
Each duo is left high and dry with no food no water and and no clothes. They must survive on their own for a full 21 days with nothing but one personal item each.
According to Ms Contis no one brought clothing as their item but preferred practical items such as a small cup machete and goggles.
The dramatic trailer says that humans can only go three days without water with the human body beginning to shut down after three weeks without food.
And contestants are seen desperately scrambling for something to eat with one woman seen killing a fish as her partner yells 'chop its head off' as tells it 'you're my dinner'.
While another kills a snake telling the camera 'It will still bite you even though I cut its damn head off.'
Brave A contestant goes diving for dinner on Naked and Afraid which starts on Sunday night.ht.
Scared Kim Shelton 22 a student from Minnesota stripped off for the Discovery show.
The contestants are Shane Lewis 40 an electrician from Connecticut who has backpacked around the world. He grew up in foster care and had to adapt to constantly changing living circumstances.
He took off midway through his college education to backpack across the world and has now been to over seventy countries.
Shane's teamed up with student Kim Shelton 22 from Minnesota who grew up in England but spent every summer in remote Minnesota and has been to wilderness awareness school for two years
EJ Snyder 46 from North Carolina is a military and survival expert who joined the military aged 19 and is now retired.
He's paired up with Kellie Nightlinger 38 an adventure guide from Alaska who worked in law enforcement and as a rock minor. She is now a guide for glacier and whale watching adventures and once survived in the Everglades for a week by herself even being harpooned by an alligator.
Jonathan Klay 36 a former Marine and bodyguard from LA joined Alison Teal a 27 year old surfer and filmmaker from Hawaii who currently lives in a Robinson Crusoe style grass hut that she built with her parents over the last 20 years.
Survival instructor and country and western singer songwriter Clint Jivoin 24 from Indiana says that ninety percent of his diet comes from his own hunting and wild edible plants however he is adamant in his disdain for sport hunting 'Disgusting and despicable if you kill it then you d better eat it.'
'Naked and afraid' Survivalists Kellie Nightlinger and Erroll James Snyder on the upcoming reality show 'Naked and Afraid' on the Discovery Channel
Survivors 'Naked and Afraid' participants Alison Teal Blehert Koehn and Jonathan Klay found clothing and built a fire on the Discovery Channel
And Clint was teamed up with Laura Zerra 27 from New Hampshire a taxidermist and survival instructor who has a love of danger and has hitchhiked her way around Mexico.
Billy Berger 39 a writer from Georgia who loves deer hunting joins Ky Furneaux a 39 year old award winning stuntwoman from LA who grew up in the Australian Outback and who vowed to spend most of her time outside after breaking her back in a car accident.
Tattoo artist Puma Cabra 38 from Nevada was a professional snowboarder and could then disappear for multiple days with nothing but his knife and his knowledge. He has encountered mountain lions and pulled himself out of six avalanches.
He joins Julie Wright 30 a wilderness instructor from Washington who has happily lived off the land.
I m an ultimate survivalist Kellie Nightlinger 38 told the Daily News.
Tired One of the contestants looks close to collapse on the Discovery show.
Modesty The contestants private parts are blurred out in the Discovery show
Nightlinger said she had been starving after spending two weeks in the wild when she devised an innovative way to catch fish using her private parts as bait and then trapping her meal between her legs.
We needed something with protein and because the water was so muddy traditional fishing methods wouldn t work so I had to improvise adapt and overcome said Nightlinger.
During the night time the female survivalist and her partner on the show E.J. Snyder a retired Army veteran used a fire that they lit by rubbing sticks together to keep hyenas away.
They were frightening but at least they seemed to be afraid of fire she told the Daily News as EJ is seen to see hyena paw prints adding 'This is a hyena print if there's one there's more.
Other episodes of Naked and Afraid featuring different nude paired up strangers have been filmed in Panama Costa Rica the Maldives and Borneo.
Nude Kim Shelton was forced to strip off for TV show Naked and Afraid.
Makeshift bikini Laura Zenna treks through the jungle.
Desperate to eat Kim Shelton and Kellie Nightlinger struggle in the jungle with lack of clothes coming second to finding food
I think the challenge brings out the very best and very worst the show s executive producer Steve Rankin told the Daily News from a hospital bed in Costa Rica where he was recovering after being bitten hours earlier by a venomous snake while working on the show.
The idea here is to push the ball down the field Discovery channel executive Craig Coffman has said Survival shows are so common now that it s gotten more and more difficult to convince the audience that what they re watching is something extreme.
Having no clothes just takes it to the next level. It s the ultimate test and makes survival exponentially more difficult.
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The contestants
Shane Lewis and Kim Shelton
EJ Snyder and Kellie Nightlinger
Jonathan Klay and Alison Teal
Clint Jivoin and Laura Zerra
Billy Berger and Ky Furneaux
Puma Cabra and Julie Wright
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TheDillo Weston United Kingdom 25/6/2013 10 24
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Most T.V. producers today are Drug addicted sleazeballs. They pass thier drug induced brain spasms off as 'ART . T.v 's golden age is over . Take your pills now.
Red podunk United States 25/6/2013 10 11
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It ain't naked if you wear leaves. Bit of a Bum Deal
Red Axminster United Kingdom 25/6/2013 10 08
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If this is supposed to be reality where are the obese contestants
SugeWhite Town and Country 25/6/2013 08 53
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I fail to see how a pair of pants would ruin the survival experience
Sara1 Home Sweet Home United Kingdom 25/6/2013 08 23
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It ain't naked if you wear leaves..
The Grinch Whoville 25/6/2013 08 09
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Just more highly scripted and controlled Reality TV
Patrick Belfast 25/6/2013 07 46
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Andrew Ucles is the man that Bear Grylls looks up to.
uncommon sense Brisbane Australia 25/6/2013 05 54
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This show was pretty lame. Neither one of them drank their own urine or ate insects. Bring back Bear Grylls.
JackinFtLaud Davie_Florida United States 25/6/2013 05 45
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I saw this last night only because it came on right after the guy walking across the Grand Canyon. They couldn't have picked two more in attractive people. Gross. Shut that trash off after about 2 minutes
swimkids3 NJ USA 25/6/2013 05 18
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