Sabrina and her pack of daring young adults are returning tonight for a third season! If you’ve never seen the show, IN REAL LIFE is all about young contestants signing up to complete a series of real-life challenges. Many apply, 18 challengers are chosen, and one lucky winner walks away with the prize of $10,000 for school and a trip for four to Mexico!
To give you even more insight to the show, we’ve compiled some fun facts about IN REAL LIFE that we bet you didn’t know….
– Over 1,000 kids from across Canada apply to be on the show, but only 18 lucky challengers are chosen.
– In Season 1, IN REAL LIFE challengers Ruby-Rae and Madison logged 35,002 km (21,749 miles) of travel by the time they made it to the final episode. They went to Atlanta, Miami, Wichita, Los Angeles, Edmonton, Montreal, Whistler, Vancouver, Virginia, San Diego and the Mojave Desert.
– In Season 1’s “Adventure Guide” episode in Whistler, BC, it was actually snowing on top of the glacier—during July!
– Sabrina Jalees, the host of the show, was the youngest stand-up comedian to perform at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. She also broke Mike Myers’ record for being the youngest comic ever hired by Second City.
– In Season 1’s “Alligator Wranglers” episode, challengers wrestled a real, live 227-kilogram (500-pound) alligator!
– When we say IN REAL LIFE, we mean it! Challengers have had to face the stinky end of things, from smelly garbage in Season 1’s “Dirty Jobs,” to animal waste in Season 1’s “Farm Frenzy” and Season 2’s “Sheep Ranchers.”
– In the Season 1 finale, “Pilots,” the challengers got the opportunity to fly L39 jets, the same ones used to train fighter pilots, thousands of metres in the air.
– Coming up in Season 3, the challengers will face nothing less than explosions, tens of thousands of bees and 43-metre (140-feet) tall trees!
– Challengers have won an electric skateboard, a laptop, a limousine tour of Hollywood and of course, the grand prize of an amazing family vacation and thousands of dollars for their college education.
– A member of team purple has won the first two seasons of IN REAL LIFE. Can purple do it again in Season 3?
Don’t miss the premier of IN REAL LIFE tonight at 7pm ET/PT on YTV!