A second season of Fear Factor South Africa has been announced by e.tv and the channel is looking for contestants who are prepared to give up their lives for two and a half weeks in order to be covered in disgusting creatures and gorge themselves on testicles.
Twelve contestants are required, only one of whom will walk away with "a substantial cash prize".
The channel has not yet revealed what the prize will be but that hardly matters - if there are raw bull testicles to be eaten and hairy spiders to be suffocated by there will always be contestants.
Some folks just don't know when to stay home and eat Ma's home-baked instead.
If you're that sort of person you may want to consider entering the show, which airs on e.tv in January 2007.
Before you leap right in, salivating at the prospect of curdled goat milk being poured over your head, you should know what you're letting yourself in for.
Twelve contestants from around South Africa between the ages of 21 and 40 will be selected to live in a rudimentary camp for 15 days, undertaking challenges each day.
The format was loudly criticised during the first season, but e.tv clearly feels it works for them.
The contestants will sleep in a large army tent, eat in a communal canteen and share outdoor showers. There will be no communication with the outside world and phones, television sets or other luxuries will not be permitted.
Blasphemy! we cry. Phones - sure. Luxuries - no problem. But no television? Are they mad??
Two camera crews will film the contestants' every move and every conversation will be recorded. Just in case drinking buckets of rotten livers isn't enough of a turn-on.
The contestants will have to endure many hardships (shame) including two stunts each day that are compulsory for all. They must be prepared for the unexpected as nothing will be revealed until they arrive on set.
The nature of the challenges is either gross, edible or physical. The contestants will be instructed to perform either as a group, partnership or as individuals.
After the two compulsory stunts have been performed the process of elimination begins. At certain intervals in the competition, candidates will have to leave the game.
This year the contestants will endure two stunts and one edible per day - every day. We assume part of the fare will include things like "bleeding cow anus" or "snakes in a brassiere".
The sites will be in and around Johannesburg and the competition will take place during November, 2006. If you live outside of Gauteng, you will be flown to Johannesburg for two weeks.
As a competitor, you will need nerves of steel but you don't have to be a devotee of extreme sports - just fit and healthy and prepared to drink the bile from the throat of a dead giraffe.
The challenges are designed to produce different degrees of the Fear Factor so it's not just about muscle and brawn - brains and tenacity will be needed as well. As well as the ability to cover yourself in tarantulas while biting the heads off scorpions.
The channel is looking for people from all over the country, from all walks of life, with all kinds of interests, hobbies and levels of fitness – people who are ready and willing to face the unforeseen.
So fear not - all your needs shall be catered to if you need the fame that badly.
Do you? If that sounds like you please entertain us by
downloading an application form, or fetching one from one of the following e.tv offices:
Cape Town
Block B
Longkloof Studios
Darters Road
Gardens
Johannesburg
5 Summit Road
Hyde Park
Durban
214 9th Avenue
Morningside
Durban
You need to fill in the application form and post it to one of the following addresses:
e.tv Johannesburg
Fear Factor Entry Reply
X9944
Sandton
2146
OR
Endemol Productions
Fear Factor Entry Reply
PO Box 71917
Bryanston
2021
If you'd rather you can hand deliver the entry form to one of the physical addresses listed above.
Finally, you can apply online if you prefer - visit
e.tv's online application.
Entries close on 2 October, 2006, so make sure you get yours in on time.
And whatever you do, please do not get accepted on the show then come here afterwards and moan about almost drowning in a bucket of fish guts.
You
will almost drown in a bucket of fish guts - it's as near as dammit guaranteed. Don't come crying to us.