Andrew Kieling
Star wildlife filmmaker banned from survival show over incident
Animal filmmaker Andreas Kieling causes a scandal in “7 vs. Wild”.
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In the third season of “7 vs. Wild” animal filmmaker Andreas Kieling is not there. The reason is an incident with another candidate.
With great excitement, the third season of the extremely successful YouTube reality show “7 vs. Wild” is expected, which took first place in the German YouTube charts last year with more than eleven million views. As the creators of the survival format have now announced, Andreas Kieling (63), currently Germany’s best-known animal filmmaker, will not appear as a candidate in the new episodes from November as originally planned.
“Crossing borders that we didn’t want to tolerate”
Nothing is known about the exact reasons for his sacking before filming began in the Canadian wilderness. A statement from “7 vs. Wild” in an Instagram story said: “Due to an incident between Ann-Kathrin Bendixen (monkey on bike) and Andreas Kieling during the preparatory phase in Canada, we decided before the suspension of the Participants decided not to let Andreas Kieling participate in Season 3 of ‘7 vs Wild’. It was a crossing of boundaries that we would not and could not tolerate.” “The shooting star Jan (Schlappen) Lange” (24), who was on site as a reservist, stepped in as a team partner alongside Joey Kelly (50).
Ann-Kathrin Bendixen also takes a position
The social media adventurer Ann-Kathrin Bendixen (23), mentioned in the post, also spoke up on the matter in an Instagram story. There she wrote: “Shortly before the start of the new season ‘7 vs Wild’ there was an incident with Andreas Kieling. It was a very unpleasant crossing of borders for me. The production reacted immediately and excluded Andreas from his participation. Andreas has then apologized to me for the incident. That means the topic is over for me at the moment”.