EXCLUSIVE: Alone star Laura Try reveals the one 'game-changing' item she missed the most

Virgin Radio

19 Aug 2023, 10:39

The 40-year-old endurance athlete quit the show after just six days.

Warning: spoilers ahead.

Would you be willing to be dropped off in the remote wilderness of north-west Canada, with just a handful of basic tools and the task of surviving on your own for as long as possible?

If so, you would be in with the chance of winning £100,000, but I think I would rather just watch 11 people take part in this challenge on Channel 4’s new show, Alone.

It claims to be "the most extreme competition on TV" as the contestants are not even allowed a camera crew to stay with them and keep them company.

With this in mind, it is no surprise that contestant Laura Try, a former salon owner from Lincolnshire, quit after just six days.

During the last 10 years, the 40-year-old has left her beauty-orientated lifestyle behind to become a YouTube star who travels the world and takes part in endurance challenges.

In 2015, Try completed a 48-hour adventure race, and in 2022, she spent eight days living on an uninhabited desert island.

Speaking exclusively to virginradio.co.uk about what she wanted to achieve on Alone, Try said: "Because I love animals and nature, I was really excited to spend time where they lived, and I was excited to see a bear or a moose or a wolf.

"Having done the training, we [were] told that they were only dangerous if we were to act in a certain way, which I had no plans of doing.

"So although when I heard noises in the night, it obviously got my adrenaline going and I would have my air horn at the ready, [but] I just thought, if I stay calm, then the animal will pick up on that calmness and maybe give back.

"In my head, if I was to stay for much longer than I had, I would have kind of developed this rapport and the animals would have got used to me being there and just know, ‘There's a human and she's fine and she's very friendly.

"That was what I was looking forward to doing, becoming one with the environment and nature and the animals,” she added. “But sadly, it didn't get to that stage.”

When asked which item she missed the most during the filming process, Try revealed what would have been a “game changer”.

"Toilet paper. I mean, come on. And I was on my period as well,” she said.

"That would have been magnificent.”

The YouTube presenter also told virginradio.co.uk the real reason she decided to quit Alone after six days.

Try recalled the fifth day of the challenge, by which she had not eaten anything and spent hours failing to catch some fish: “My mood changed so quickly and something inside of me said, ‘This isn't right’.

"When I woke up the next day, I just knew that it probably wasn't the right place for me to be because I wasn't enjoying it and I wasn't appreciating everything that it had for me.

"There was so much there, so much beauty, so much wildlife. Some people would just give anything to be where I was, but I was there and I just couldn't find the joy.

“It was quite an easy decision for me to decide to tap out," she added.

Alone continues on Channel 4 at 9pm on Sunday 20th August.