Rob Brydon, host of the new BBC reality show Destination X, has admitted he would be 'hopeless' at the game, as contestants prepare for a gruelling 30-day journey across Europe. The show, launching on Wednesday 30 July at 9pm on BBC One, sees 13 players travel on a bus with blacked-out windows, trying to deduce their location.
Each episode, contestants must place an X on a map guessing where they are. Whoever is furthest from the actual location is eliminated, with the last player winning £100,000. Brydon described the show as combining 'the best bits of The Traitors with the best bits of Race Across the World'.
Brydon revealed the challenges of hosting, including accidentally nearly revealing a future location to a contestant. He said: 'I remember once we were at a particular location and I knew that in a few days’ time we would be at another location and I said to somebody in the production team: Oh I can't wait until we get to X – and then I suddenly realised one of the players was close.'
The host also warned that players' initial team mentality evolves over time, adding: 'I don't want to give anything away but when they start out, they are very much in a team mentality, they are keen to remind me that they are a team – and then things evolve.'
Brydon said he would be 'cruelly exposed as being not too bright at all' if he played, but viewers can play along at home. Destination X airs two episodes per week on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
