BBC CASTAWAY 2000
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'Star' of Castaway show threatens to leave One of the most popular of the Castaways marooned on a remote Hebridean island for a BBC fly-on-the-wall documentary has threatened to quit the hit show. Sex symbol Ben Fogle is fed up because some of the other islanders are jealous of his popularity with the viewers. He will be seen threatening to leave Taransay, off Harris in the Western Isles, when the TV documentary Castaway 2000 returns for a new series later this month. A BBC spokeswoman said: "One of the latest programmes shows Ben threatening to leave because of one of the other residents. He goes through a difficult time and some people do have problems with him because he tends to attract a lot of coverage, although that's not necessarily his fault." Ben, a 26-year-old former picture editor for Tatler magazine, is widely regarded by viewers as the heart-throb of the group and has been bombarded by romantic fan mail. Earlier this year he spoke of the irony of having so many women interested in him when he is marooned on the island and they are on the mainland. He said: "I miss having a girlfriend and spent all last year in London looking for a beautiful girl and failing. Then I get here and I hear I am some kind of heart-throb. I've got people writing to me and I'm stuck out here." The BBC will be keen to retain Ben, one of its biggest stars, after a series of departures from the island including that of a family of four. Gordon and Cassie Carey, both 51, and their children Yoneh, five, and Aaron, three, left last month after becoming disillusioned with life on the island. The departure of the Careys, from Birmingham, is the third major setback to the project after Castaways Ray Bowyer and Ron Copsey quit. The family are Seventh Day Adventists and do not drink or smoke and it is thought that this led to tension on the island. There are now 30 castaways left on the island from an original total of 36 and they have another four months to endure before the conclusion of the year-long experiment. In March, Lancashire builder Ray Bowyer left Taransay following a number of incidents involving other members of the group. Then in July Ron Copsey, the only openly gay resident on the island, left blaming personality clashes and "inflated egos" for his decision. |
