Bruce Parry’s most extreme moments – from suffocating a goat and taking psychedelics to painful penis inversion ritual

TV explorer Bruce Parry looks set to make a grand return to the BBC as he takes on his first TV project in a decade.

The Tribe with Bruce Parry returns toBBCTwoon Sunday night, to offer an insight into the many different tribes and communities across the globe.

His programmes often bring the shock value with many of the rituals he partakes in seen as bizarre and outlandish to many viewers.

His brand new series promises to be exactly the same with a shock scene showcasing him suffocating a goat in a moment that is bound to cause uproar.

But that is certainly not the only time he has wreaked havoc on-screens.

Flying Eze has compiled a list of just some of Bruce's most shocking moments.

Goat Suffocation

In his new show, the 56-year-old finds himself in the deep end quite quickly, with episode two seeing him meet an indigenous tribe called The Mucubal in Angola.

The star is gifted a goat by one of the tribe's leaders as a welcome, and a perplexed Bruce asks what he should do with it.

He's told he must kill it then and there, and Bruce looks horrified.

In a voiceover, he explains that animals are essential for the tribe for sustenance, currency and gifts.

It is also a demonstration of the man's wealth and generosity, meaning it would be extremely rude to reject the offering.

A nervous Bruce asks how to kill the goat and other men show him how they use suffocation.

Bruce explains to viewers that they use that technique so they don't waste the animal's nutrient-rich blood.

The men then help hold the screaming goat down while a Bruce places his hands around the goat's mouth and nostrils to suffocate him.

As the stomach-churning scene continues and the goat jolts, Bruce admits: “This is the most gruesome thing I have ever done.”

He then repeats “Oh my God” on a number of occasions and says: “I wasn't given any time to consider it or anything, it's like they held it and said you have to hold this now…so I did.”

An emotional Bruce is then told the goat is dead and he takes a deep breath as he sits back.

He then says: “It's a very odd feeling, feeling the life force of an animal disappear in your own hands…not a feeling I'd necessarily want to have again.”

Penis Inversion Ritual

Whilst Bruce rarely refuses to take part in certain rituals, there was one time on the upcoming series where he was forced to back out.

In an interview with the Metro, he revealed he was left almost fainting as he got halfway through a practise which would have pushed his entire penis back into his body.

He told the publication: “The first time I said no in my whole TV career was when my dear friend in New Guinea tried to push my penis back inside my body and he got halfway,

“But then I nearly fainted and said, ‘No more'.”

Giving up sex

Ahead of filming his Tribe series in 2005, Bruce admitted to living a party-fulled lifestyle in Ibiza fulled by alcohol, drugs and plenty of sex.

However, he soon opted to give it all up after admitting he had become addicted to sex and it was altering his relationships with women.

He told the RadioTimes: “I’d moved to Ibiza in 2003 and was living a very hedonistic lifestyle. I was partying very hard.

“I’d come back from my trips away and be introduced to 20 people a day, being lauded and paraded and celebrated.

“But then I went to meet a group of people in Colombia called the Kogi who invited me to give up sex, drugs and alcohol. I realised my champagne had lost its fizz and I couldn’t carry on that lifestyle.

“I realised that sex had been my drive all my life. I’m not saying sex isn’t good but what I learnt during the process of giving it up was that it had actually complicated my relationships with the other sex. I was only about the sex, and not connecting.

“The more female attention I was getting, the harder it was to find a relationship. The sexual drives I had were coming from a needy place rather than a wholesome place.

“It was a year and a half to begin with, then I had a relationship for a little time, then I did another year and a half.

“Giving sex up was a very complex and difficult thing. Loads of people still don’t understand it to this day.”;

Taking psychedelics

Bruce has been open about taking psychedelics and how certain “jungle potions” have been beneficial to him and his lifestyle.

Speaking to the RadioTimes, he admitted he hopes taking such substances can be done with “less fear” in the future.

He said: “When it comes to hallucinogens we’ve done a very good job of putting them in the same bracket as all the other illicit material and substances, and there’s a reason for that because clearly they’re potent.

“But I’ve found, and still do find, them to be very beneficial in my own understanding of the world and, especially, my relationship with nature.

“I look forward to a time when we can see those things through a less fearful prism because the experiences I’ve had doing those things have been incredibly positive.

“I’ve done ayahuasca a number of times and without question they’ve been some of the most potent, healing and enlightening experiences of my life.

“They’ve never been pleasant, and I’ve always gone through a very difficult time taking them, but afterwards there is this most extraordinary, beautiful sensation of being humbled.”;

Future plans

The star also opened up about how children are not currently on his future plans and how he hopes to be part of a “community” that can help to raise a child.

Speaking about children, he said: “Not until I’m in a community.

“I’m very much married to this process. You hear it again and again, but it really does take a community to raise a child.

“I would love to explore what it’s really like to be in an egalitarian society where we see ourselves as part of nature and not above it.

“I do think it will be a difficult journey, but the other side of it is something incredibly beautiful and that’s why I’m willing to do it. As far as how that might be replicated around the country, that’s not for me to speculate.”