As you probably noticed, I was bubbling for weeks about Jake Gyllenhaal’s appearance on last night’s season premiere of “Man Vs Wild,” because there’s nothing I enjoy more than injecting homoeroticism into a scene between two hunky men. And as you can see in the video below, the event did not disappoint, as Gyllenhaal and Bear Grylls stripped off their shirts to cross an icy river arm-in-arm. “Nice and controlled, nice and steady,” Grylls says. “Keep holding me.” And then, as noted before:
Bear: It takes balls, I’m not joking.
Jake: Well, they’re right up in my throat right now.
GRRRR SHIRTLESS RIVER CROSSING! JUST TWO MEN SURVIVING MOTHER NATURE TOGETHER! WHICH WAY TO THE LUMBERJACK CONVENTION?
Watch the entire episode at BuzzFeed.
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He’s a lumberjack and he’s okay. He works all night and he sleeps all day.
Oh man, so much sexier than the Will Ferrell stunt appearance.
So why does one strip off his shirt to cross an icy river arm-in-arm??? Sounds a little … suspect. Did Bear at any point exclaim, “I wish I knew how to quit you”??
Yeah, questionable choice after questionable choice. I know where that leads, I was a Boy Scout.
@MC Hammer – Well, because if you cross in your clothes and then get out soaking wet in temperatures below freezing…how exactly do you prevent hypothermia from setting in?
Assuming it was real, my respect for Gyllenhaal went up about 4000% after watching him cross that line without a safety harness.
@Deezy
It’s reality TV, therefore it is most surely NOT real.
How much piss did they drink?
Holy shit, crossing over that line….
“does it look quite high?”
My next line would have been a study if inventiveness for swear words directed at Bear, the cameramen, my agent, the river, and the rope.
Thanks, Matt! As a lady, I appreciate the little somethin’ you throw our way occasionally. Now I can suffer through a bunch more Kate Upton pics without quietly sobbing in the corner.
(Gay rumors be damned, Jake is on my list of five freebies. Rawr.)
#4 here… oh, sorry, just kidding.
Hey this is TOTALLY fake, man. Everybody here knows very well it is EXTREMELY difficult wearing bulky packs… to have surprise but seks.
I loved that episode so much. Couldn’t stop giggling. I’m going to watch it when ever I feel crotchety.