Artist Grayson Perry talks Bear necessities and targets masculinity

Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry has dismissed adventurer Bear Grylls as a “hangover” of a “useless” type of masculinity.

Perry has turned his attention to masculinity and manly men for a new Channel 4 TV series and said Grylls shows the kind of qualities that are not useful in modern life.

He told the Radio Times: “He celebrates a masculinity that is useless. Try going into an estate agent in Finsbury Park and come out with an affordable flat.