Channel 4 fans are utterly flummoxed after 33-year-old reveals he’s a grandad

A Channel 4 reality show contestant, 33, has shocked viewers after revealing he is a grandfather.

Yes, you read that correctly.

The new series, The Hunt: Prey Vs Predator, drops a group of 10 into the ‘vast, unforgiving forest’ where they are pitted against one another in a game of ‘cat and mouse’ all for the prize of £100k.

During introductions among our group of adventurers, ex-military man-turned-dentist Nathan revealed he was a ‘father of six’, which was already a shock to his co-stars, including prison officer Marc.

Nathan, married to his wife Carly, then casually added: ‘And a grandfather of one’, although he quickly caveated that ‘we don’t use the word grandad because it’s really uncool, so we use Papa’.

In a separate chat to the camera, he joked: ‘Life is always on the go.

This is a break, this is a holiday.’
Nonetheless, the grandfather revelation left fans gobsmacked.

‘He’s 33 and he’s a grandad!?,’ X user Tom James Clark wrote.

‘Surprised no one had follow-up questions for Nathan being a grandad at 33!?,’ MishyMoo added.

‘Nathan.

A grandad, at 33?!!!’ Millie echoed.

Discussing what motivated him to sign up for the show, he said: ‘I really want to do this to prove to myself that I can.

The Hunt review

Channel 4’s The Hunt: Prey vs Predator is the first reality series I’ve seen in this tedious post-Traitors era that actually feels like it’s carving out its own lane – harking back to a time before we collectively decided that Claudia Winkleman gliding around a Scottish castle with three cloaked murderers was the absolute peak of British television.

The show has been described as ‘as savage as The Hunger Games’… minus the slaughter.

Personally, that doesn’t quite do The Hunt justice.

Instead, it feels like a welcome throwback to the golden age of competition TV in the 2010s – blending Phillip Schofield’s one genuinely brilliant contribution to broadcasting, The Cube, with Channel 4’s criminally underrated surveillance thriller Hunted.

Read full review here.

‘I’ve got a condition called FND [Functional Neurological Disorder], which means that I have seizures and I also get weakness in my left-hand side, so it’s a personal challenge to see whether I can still get up and run around a forest.’
In order to win, he’ll have to be the last one standing after a cutthroat game of ‘action-packed hunts’, and ever-shifting allegiances.

More generally, fans have gotten behind the strategy-based new show.

‘Between this and handcuffed, Channel 4 is kind of bringing back good reality competition shows,’ luke praised.

‘I really enjoyed tonight’s The Hunt prey vs predator premiere, like the format of this new game,’ Darrennpassey agreed.

The Hunt: Prey vs Predator airs tonight at 9pm on Channel 4.
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