'I was dubbed a snowflake on Netflix's new show but it has changed my life'

Liam Brown was excited when he bagged a place on a Netflix show. He applied for a new programme the streaming service was creating, following a group of young adults living their best lives.

But the show wasn't quite as billed. What the group ended up doing was VERY different. He'd actually signed up to a survival show named Snowflake Mountain - and he was in for quite the surprise.

A synopsis for the show from Netflix says: “Hopelessly entitled or simply in need of tough love? Ten spoiled young adults experience nature without a parental safety net in this reality series”.

And Liam, 22, who lives in Manchester, was one of the 10 people who got the shock of their lives when they were whisked off to the Lake District and taught all sorts of survival tips in the wilderness with no phone signal and none of the luxuries they are used to.

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Telling the Manchester Evening News about the show, Liam said: “There were 10 of us that live quite a high-luxury, do what (we) want, memories over money kind of life and we thought we were going on a show called ‘Living Your Best Life’ which was like a party show advertised as a summer away partying.”

“I thought I was going on to Geordie Shore or Big Brother, something really cool!” he added. So what he ended up starring in was dramatically different. But how did Netflix manage to pull it off? “They spoke to our families, which we didn’t know at the time, and for me it was my Nan who said, ‘Yes, send him away, he’s out every weekend and has no life goals,’” Liam told us.

“So they spoke to producers behind our backs and we ended up in this wilderness retreat to try help us grow but we didn’t have any phones, running water, any contact to the outside world… it was literally