Naked Jungle was a one-off television game show produced by the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 terrestrial TV

Television

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 station Channel 5 in 2000. In itself a fairly innocuous gameshow with an assault course

Assault course

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 format, it was controversial because its contestants were all nudists

Naturism

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. The programme's presenter, Keith Chegwin

Keith Chegwin

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, was also naked. The full-frontal scenes of genitalia (including Chegwin himself) caused a furore in the national media, especially in the Daily Mail

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, which described the show as having "plumbed new depths [of indecency on television]". The show also attracted criticism in the House of Commons

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. No follow-up programmes were made.

The programme was made by the same producers as CITV

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's Jungle Run

Jungle Run

Jungle Run was a British television series which aired on CITV as part of the ITV network from 1999 to 2006. It is a game show similar to Fort Boyard and The Crystal Maze...

, and used the same set as well as following the same format.

A video of Naked Jungle was released by Universal Home Entertainment in late 2000.