Reeling from the embarrassment of having baptised disgraced TV star and convicted rapist Russel Brand in the River Thames, at least outdoors adventurer Bear Grylls has somewhere to run to and hide from the pointing fingers and “told you so” sniggers.

He’s been talking this week about why he and his wife scrapped plans to buy a small flat in London and instead opted for a delelict building with no roof, no power and no running water.on a remote island off the coast of Wales.

The Man vs. Wild star bought St Tudwal’s Island for A$180,000 after spotting an advertisement in the back of a magazine. Grylls says back in 2001 he and his wife Shara acquired both a Thames houseboat and the 8ha private island for less than the $288,000 city flat they were looking at.

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