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I fly fish, but not for food, you know? I have had to save somebody’s life on the mountain.”īut never her own - at least not until she was flown to a South African desert last year and inserted, sans-clothing, into her competitive environment.

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She had only seen a few clips of “Naked and Afraid” at that point, and admits she was naïve about producers’ interest in her, despite already knowing how to start fires and build life-saving caves in snow. Provided by Molly JansenMolly Jansen is seen by prayer flags at base camp of Mount Everest. “So when I got back from an 18-day climb in Nepal last April (part of her training for a May 2020 attempt to summit Mount Everest), I saw a random message on Facebook asking if I wanted to apply.” “There’s a part of me that has a lot of adrenaline because I like to do unique things, like heli-skiing in Iceland or running marathons,” she said. The “super fan” tag is true now for Jansen, having watched every episode twice. (A fan-favorite “all-star,” Wright counts the equivalent of more than three months of filming for the show.)

Teasers for her episode advertise her as a “super fan” of the series, and one who was paired with “Naked and Afraid” veteran and Lakewood-based Wright.

Now Jansen can add “Naked and Afraid” survivalist to the list - a title that seems impossibly distant from her debutante past. In addition to running her own law firm (Molly Jansen Law Group) and practicing criminal defense, the Denver native is a longtime morning DJ on hard-rock station KBPI 107.9-FM (Mondays 8:30-9:30 a.m.), a mountaineer, a ski instructor at Beaver Creek, a licensed real estate broker (Falk Ryan LLC), a yoga instructor, a former candidate for Denver district attorney, and a single mother of three who hails from a prominent Denver family known for its philanthropy. Jansen is expecting a sizable crowd, considering her unusual profile in the community. Provided by DiscoveryMatt Wright and Molly Jansen during filming for the Discovery Channel show “Naked and Afraid.” Jansen is celebrating with a viewing party at Stoney’s Bar and Grill (1111 Lincoln St.), with a $10 cover benefiting the nonprofit SafeHouse Denver, which provides assistance to victims of domestic violence. We’ll know how Jansen and Wright did when their two-hour episode premieres on the Discovery Channel at 6 p.m. “There’s lots of very, very close encounters with venomous snakes and large animals and predators,” Wright said. That’s especially true as Discovery advertises Jansen and Wright’s episode as taking place in an “African Kill Zone where they are stalked by lions, dozens of crocodiles and a herd of 100 elephants.” “I’ve had some pretty sensitive conversations with my daughters about how these traumatizing events are going to be portrayed,” Jansen said of her girls, ages 12, 15 and 17. Of course, Jansen and Wright signed legal documents saying they wouldn’t talk about the results under pain of lawsuit - which seems like an afterthought, given that their lives were on the line for the sake of our entertainment. We had moments where somebody’s life was literally holding on by a thread and had to be saved on the spot.” “This upcoming episode has everything you could put into an entire season of the show, and a lot of first-time things in the show’s history. “She was literally battling for her life,” said Matt Wright, a “Naked and Afraid” veteran and Colorado survivalist with whom Jansen was paired. They didn’t live it day in and day out like I did.”

“And that part is frustrating when I see comments from people saying it’s fake. “I have to tell you, it was as real as it comes,” Jansen, 45, said from a couch in her tidy but hulking red-brick Victorian on Capitol Hill this month.

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Molly Jansen can’t reveal much about her time on “Naked and Afraid,” the six-year-old Discovery Channel series famous for putting au naturel competitors in brutal, do-or-die environments.īut she did say the secretive, month-long separation from her family - and civilization-at-large - nearly killed her. Richardson, The Denver PostMolly Jansen, a recent contestant on the popular Discovery reality show “Naked and Afraid,” is photographed at her home on Main Denver. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu