Bear Grylls

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.

I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.

Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!

I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.