Australian Survivor cast and crew 'collapsed on set due to punishing heat'

Australian Survivor cast and crew 'collapsed on set due to punishing heat'
Australian Survivor cast and crew 'collapsed on set due to punishing heat'
Australian Survivor cast and crew 'collapsed on set due to the punishing heat' - as host Jonathan LaPaglia admits the weather was 'brutal'

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Australian Survivor: Blood V Water is set to launch on Channel 10 on Monday.

And ahead of the season premiere, host Jonathan LaPaglia has spoken about the challenges of filming the show in the punishing heat in Far North Queensland.

'This season again gives you a slightly different look. But the biggest issue for us really was the weather,' he told TV Tonight.

Brutal conditions: Australian Survivor host Jonathan LaPaglia (pictured) has revealed how crew members collapsed on set due to the punishing heat in Far North Queensland

Brutal conditions: Australian Survivor host Jonathan LaPaglia (pictured) has revealed how crew members collapsed on set due to the punishing heat in Far North Queensland

'The temperature was just brutal. I thought Cloncurry [last year] was bad. But wow. This was next level. Twenty minutes in that heat and my brain just stops thinking.'

'In fact, it was so hot this season that we had several players collapse in challenges and several crew go down as well,' he

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