HUNGRY Elaine Murphy was kicked out of a TV survival challenge for tucking into emergency rations - on the first day.

Elaine, 30, from Rowlands Road, Worthing, helped herself to veggie sausages after just 12 hours on the challenge for BBC programme Country Tracks.

In the show people are trained to survive on rabbits, woodlice and nettles, then left to survive for a week in a remote woodland.

Vegetarian Elaine was determined to prove she could live off the land without eating rabbits, but by the end of day one she had raided the emergency supplies.

Producer Paul Newman said: "As this happened so early on we felt that the entire challenge project was in danger of collapsing.

But Elaine, one of six contestants chosen from more than 500 hopefuls, said she had done nothing wrong.

She said: "I was going along to learn and to enjoy being filmed, but I was not going to starve."

The Country Tracks Challenge will be screened from September 4, on Fridays on BBC2, at 8pm.

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