UPDATE (Tuesday, Dec. 9): Eaten Alive “wildlife enthusiast”; Paul Rosolie chatted with Jimmy Kimmel on last night’s JKL, and took a few shots from the talk show host for backing out of the heavily hyped stunt in which he was to have been swallowed whole by a giant anaconda and then regurgitated out.

“We’re all pissed,”;quipped Kimmel. “We were promised a man would be eaten on television and he didn’t… What a ripoff!”;

Kimmel also pointed out that nobody was happy with the Eaten Alive special. “PETA was upset about the treatment of the snake, viewers were upset that Paul didn’t get eaten, the snake was mad it didn’t get lunch — everybody was mad at the end of this thing!”;

Paul, who appeared via Skype, defended his decision to pull the plug on the stunt. “I mean, hey, we gave it the best shot we could,”; he said, saying he decided to end things “about the time I felt my bones starting to creak.”;

Paul insisted that he wasn’t bothered by the firestorm of negativity and controversy on Twitter. “I think they missed the whole point of the show then,”; he said, although he did point out a silver lining: “I could destroy at “Mean Tweets!'”; he joked.

The real purpose of Eaten Alive, explained Paul, was to draw attention to the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and Jimmy offered an idea for another stunt that could get the message across even better: “I’d like to see you have sex with a hippo,”; said Jimmy. “Think about the rainforest!”;

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Discovery’s Eaten Alive was to have naturalist Paul Rosolie consumed by an enormous anaconda snake, but to the disappointment of viewers, that was not the case.

Twitter erupted with messages calling the Eaten Alive two-hour special on Sunday a huge TV letdown when Rosolie — who was wearing a protective outfit (doused in pig’s blood) that he claimed would keep him alive when the anaconda ate him — bailed out of the stunt after only having his head swallowed up by the 24-foot animal while in the Amazon. “The Amazon is the greatest natural battlefield on Earth,”; he said at the beginning of the special. “Everything, from the biggest tree to the smallest ant, is going to be eaten.”;

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“I’m calling it, I need help!”; he screamed. Rosolie did not attempt to be consumed again and the snake was released back into the wild.

“I felt her jaws lock onto my helmet. I felt her gurgling and wheezing, but then I felt her let go. She got my arm into a position where her force was fully on my exposed arm. I started to feel the blood drain out of my hand and I felt the bone flex,”; he explained. “And when I got to the point where I felt like it was going to snap I had to tap out.”;

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Twitter didn’t let Rosolie get away with this, many comparing the stunt to the 1986 special The Mysteries of Al Capone’s Vault — presented by Geraldo Rivera — which revealed the vault only having a few empty Coke bottles and a lot of dust.

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What did you think of the Eaten Alive animal stunt being cut short? 

Luckily, Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda”; video was NOT a letdown. Check it out, below.

 

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