Local football coach Jermaine Liburd was one of five strangers who met up with presenter Ben Fogle at Heathrow Airport, to take part in 'Extreme Dreams' - a new BBC TWO Show. Thirty six hours after leaving the airport he was in a rainforest in Guyana, South America. Here he had to trek for 30 kilometres a day, eat insects and learn how to canoe, with the aim of reaching the Kaieteur Falls - the highest sheer drop of water on the planet. "I think they wanted people to go on a journey of a lifetime and to basically see if they could use the situation to find a bit more about themselves," says Jermaine. The show brings together people that that have been through tough situations in their lives. Difficulties Jermaine is no stranger to difficult situations. He had a very troubled childhood. After his mother left the country, he ended up in foster care and then in a children's home. Due to his behavioural problems he was eventually packed off to a specialist boarding school in North Yorkshire. | "I struggled with order and instruction. People telling me what to do. I was finding it difficult to trust people." | | Jermaine Liburd |
"I struggled with order and instruction. People telling me what to do. I was finding it difficult to trust people." Jermaine got himself on the right track but his brother Shina, went the opposite way. He became hooked on heroin and in 1998, after leaving prison, he died. Jermaine believes his brother's death helped turn his life around. He says, "He was the only person that genuinely had any faith in me and believed I could become the person I wanted to become." Jermaine went on to play football professionally for Stockport County, Macclesfield, Torquay and Cambridge. He's currently on trial at Aldershot Town. Extreme Dreams You will be able to see Jermaine in Extreme Dreams on 18 September at 6.30pm on BBC TWO. Look out for Jermaine eating a type of grub that tribesmen see as a delicacy. He says, "It was a bit chewy and it had a creamy element to it. I ate a couple of them!" | 
