Naked Jungle
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| Genre | Game show |
| Presented by | Keith Chegwin |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 1 |
| Production company(s) | Yorkshire Television |
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| Original network | Channel 5 |
| Original release | 6 June 2000 |
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| Related shows | Jungle Run |
Naked Jungle was a one-off television gameshow produced for the United Kingdom terrestrial TV station Channel 5 by Yorkshire Television, airing on 6 June 2000. A gameshow with an assault course format, based on and using the same set as the children's show Jungle Run, it was controversial because its contestants were nudists. The programme's presenter, Keith Chegwin, was also naked, except for a hat. It was part of a special season of programmes on the channel to mark the 50th anniversary of British naturism.
A video of Naked Jungle was released by Universal Home Entertainment in late 2000. It was rated "15" by the British Board of Film Classification.
The programme was made by the same producers as CITV's children's gameshow Jungle Run, and used the same set as well as following the same format, apart from having individual winners instead of a winning team. The ten competitors were five naturist couples, who were separated into men and women with a single winner from each gender. The winner of the men and of the women then competed in a final inside the "Temple of the Body" to win a potential prize of £5,000. The winners shared a prize of £3,000. While in Jungle Run the competitors collected bananas, in Naked Jungle the objective was to obtain fig leaves, a Biblical cover for genitalia.
Naked Jungle attracted two million viewers, then a record for the channel, and 20% of the audience share in its time slot. Since its debut in 1997, Channel 5 had been aiming to attract 5% of the total audience.
Channel 5 stated that it had received 50 phonecalls relating to the programme, "evenly split" between appreciation and criticism, including a woman who held the programme responsible for curing her post-natal depression. The Independent Television Commission (ITC) declared that it had only received one complaint about the show. This was from a viewer complaining that he could "do without Keith Chegwin prancing around". An ITC spokesman said that there was no guideline against Keith Chegwin being on television, and that "Late-night nudity in a non-sexual context and in a programme that is well signposted may not be in breach of the programme codes."
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