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When we last saw Matt Wright on the Naked and Afraid XL, he was being evacuated from Ecuador with a flesh-eating bacterial infection on his foot. Doctors were able to save the limb, but Wright's Naked adventure was over.
It was a crushing blow for Wright, who tells PEOPLE that he would have considered losing a toe or two if it would allow him to finish off the challenge.
"I didn't want to go," he says. "It was devastating to be pulled from the adventure. I never saw that coming."
Now, Wright is back — and the Discovery Channel has given him the hardest challenge they've ever given a survivalist: to survive by himself for 40 days in Africa. And yes, he'll be buck naked.
The've appropriately called the new show Naked and Afraid: Savage. The mini-episodes will premiere exclusively on the Discovery GO app on Sundays during the upcoming season. The first web episode premieres on April 29, and an preview video is above.
Wright's task is to track the other participants of Naked and Afraid: XL, who will be having their own African adventure. It remains to be seen whether Wright will cross patsh with any of the other survivalists. If he doesn't, he'll be naked and alone in one of the harshest places on earth.
