If the solid of CBS’ new excessive movie star actuality sequence “Past the Edge” had an MVP, members agree it might be nation singer Craig Morgan.
Morgan, a former paratrooper who served in fight, was the one movie star on the solid who had expertise residing in such excessive circumstances. Members say they don’t know the way they’d have made it within the Panamanian jungle with out him.
“With out Craig Morgan, none of us could be alive by now,” mentioned supermodel Paulina Porizkova on Wednesday in the course of the CBS Spring Press Day. “He was undoubtedly probably the most MVP by miles as a result of this man is aware of easy methods to do all the things. He knew easy methods to make a fireplace within the rain. He knew easy methods to do the roofs. He knew easy methods to accumulate meals. He taught me and Ebony and Jody easy methods to get meals. I personally don’t assume that we may have achieved it. So undoubtedly probably the most useful, Captain Morgan.”
“Past the Edge” airs 9 p.m. (ET) Wednesdays on CBS Tv Community and can be accessible to stream reside and on-demand on Paramount+*. Along with Morgan and Porizkova, the solid additionally contains nation singer and Grand Ole Opry member Lauren Alaina, Tremendous Bowl MVP Ray Lewis, NBA champion Metta World Peace, NFL legend Mike Singletary, “Full Home” actress Jodie Sweetin and tv personalities Colton Underwood (“The Bachelor”) and Eboni Okay. Williams (“The Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis”). Throughout the present, the celebrities commerce the comforts of their each day lives for 2 weeks of brutal residing circumstances and intense bodily and emotional challenges to lift cash for his or her favourite charities.
“There was no whining,” Morgan mentioned. “I do know you may not consider this … that’s the reality. It was the other. There have been moments when everybody there, they may have whined. And nobody would’ve mentioned something when Paulina was completely soaking, drenched, moist, and awoke shivering. She had a constructive angle. When individuals bought damage, each time one thing occurred, they had been upset that they might have let individuals down. It was unbelievable. I believe it’s holding perspective of why we had been there.”
The charities are Alaina (The Subsequent Door); Morgan (Operation Lastly Residence); Lewis (Johns Hopkins Youngsters’s Heart); Peace (The Artest College); Porizkova (ACLU Basis); Singletary (Altering Our Perspective); Sweetin (Women Inc.); Underwood (Colton Underwood Legacy Basis); and Williams (Protected Horizons).
On the finish of two weeks, the highest two earners will face off in a single remaining journey to compete for the title of BEYOND THE EDGE champion and win much more cash for his or her charity of alternative.
Along with leaving the present with cash for his or her charities, Morgan mentioned he additionally made buddies for all times.
“I instantly simply fell in love with each one among these individuals,” Morgan mentioned. “I’ve used Paulina for example so much. I don’t know if it weren’t for this present if Paulina and I’ll have, and Ebony as properly, we might have by no means met one another. The truth is, if we had met one another at some occasion or some operate in New York, there’s an excellent probability we wouldn’t have spent a lot time collectively as a result of all of us, I imply, it that is the reality. And I’m being clear. All of us have these preconceived concepts about who individuals are and the life-style they reside. This supermodel and this well-known lawyer TV individual most likely would’ve by no means come over and talked to this nation, boy. However right here we bought to actually know one another. For me, the largest factor was the emotion of the expertise. It wasn’t the bodily points. I may have stayed there for an additional month. I might’ve had a home constructed.”
