Who Is Janis on ‘Naked and Afraid’? Everything You Don’t Know About Her
The popular show Discovery is launching an offshoot of Naked and Afraid, called Naked and Afraid: Solo. This series will have past participants attempt to endure alone in the outdoors for three weeks, with no one to assist them.
Which has been more challenging for Janis Holcombe: a fearless participant in Naked and Afraid — being practically eaten alive by bugs in a subtropical region of South America for three weeks or waiting almost a year for the survival show about her experience to air? Who is she? Here is everything you catch up on.
Janis Holcombe, born in 1992 in Fredericksburg, United States, is a well-known traveler, actress, writer, and athlete. She was featured in the 15th season of the show Naked & Afraid. In 2023, Janis Holcombe will be 31 years old. Check out her Instagram
The 38-year-old, who grew up in Stafford County, was in southwestern Guyana on the border of the Brazilian Amazon for 21 days last May to film an episode of “Naked and Afraid.” It will premiere at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 2, on t.he Discovery channel.
She can’t talk about how she and Viktor Kuhn, a fellow medic, fared, except to say that bug bites covered every inch of every flesh while she was on location, and she still has some scarring from them.
“Wherever we were, that’s where the bugs were,” she said in a phone interview on Monday. “We were the swarm. Even the crew was feeling it and they had first-world luxuries of clothing and anything they could use as barriers. It was rough.”
But as is the case with many shows that test a person’s ability to survive in the wilderness — and in this case without clothes or shoes — the issue became a mental one.
“I knew there was light at the end of the tunnel when it came to the bugs,” she said, but initially not knowing when the show would air “and having to keep it a secret in the meantime was definitely aggravating.”
Holcombe is planning to come back to the Fredericksburg region for an April 2 gathering at Maltese Brewing Company in Spotsylvania County, even though they currently reside in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Her episode is titled “A Taste of Their Own Medicine” as for the first time in the show’s history, two members of the crew attempted to survive 21 days in a hostile environment.
Holcombe has worked on various episodes of “Naked and Afraid” as part of the nearby crew, ready to assess the situation if someone is bordering on exhaustion, infection or collapse from sheer hunger. She’s also a flight paramedic.
Being an emergency first-responder for survivalist shows or everyday life wasn’t exactly on her radar 20 years, when she graduated from Colonial Forge High School in Stafford. Holcombe wanted to be an investigative journalist. But after she earned a bachelor’s in media arts and design from James Madison University, she couldn’t find a job anywhere.
Her parents, Laurie and the late Bob Holcombe, had been volunteering with Aquia Harbour Rescue Squad. Janis Holcombe became a volunteer emergency medical technician to bide her time “and fell in love with it.”
Emergency medicine became her new career and she worked with the Spotsylvania County Department of Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Management. She had some other personal experiences, including suffering a near-fatal medical error, that she can’t discuss, either, and they changed her way of thinking.
“I decided to seize any opportunity that piques my interest,” she said, including running marathons and spartan races. About the same time, Janis noticed that “Naked and Afraid” was seeking medics and she applied. She ended up being on the medical crew for segments in Louisiana, Peru/Amazon, Montana and New Mexico. During the latter one, she fell in love with the “land of enchantment” and later moved there.
Check out a new teaser for this upcoming episode of “Naked and Afraid.” In the teaser, survivalists and paramedics Janis and Viktor have to survive 21 days in Guyana’s Rupununi region, where they will have to overcome lack of food and swarms of unrelenting insects.
The two revealed that they have been paramedics behind-the-scenes for the show. Years ago, Janis appeared in an episode of “Naked and Afraid XL,” in which she used her medic skills to help a contestant who survived injuries to his groin region.
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Which has been more challenging for Janis Holcombe: a fearless participant in Naked and Afraid — being practically eaten alive by bugs in a subtropical region of South America for three weeks or waiting almost a year for the survival show about her experience to air? Who is she? Here is everything you catch up on.
#1. Who is Janis Holcombe on Naked and Afraid?
Source: Variety
Janis Holcombe, born in 1992 in Fredericksburg, United States, is a well-known traveler, actress, writer, and athlete. She was featured in the 15th season of the show Naked & Afraid. In 2023, Janis Holcombe will be 31 years old. Check out her Instagram
The 38-year-old, who grew up in Stafford County, was in southwestern Guyana on the border of the Brazilian Amazon for 21 days last May to film an episode of “Naked and Afraid.” It will premiere at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 2, on t.he Discovery channel.
She can’t talk about how she and Viktor Kuhn, a fellow medic, fared, except to say that bug bites covered every inch of every flesh while she was on location, and she still has some scarring from them.
Source: People
“Wherever we were, that’s where the bugs were,” she said in a phone interview on Monday. “We were the swarm. Even the crew was feeling it and they had first-world luxuries of clothing and anything they could use as barriers. It was rough.”
But as is the case with many shows that test a person’s ability to survive in the wilderness — and in this case without clothes or shoes — the issue became a mental one.
“I knew there was light at the end of the tunnel when it came to the bugs,” she said, but initially not knowing when the show would air “and having to keep it a secret in the meantime was definitely aggravating.”
#2. Where do Janis Holcombe live?
Source: Variety
Holcombe is planning to come back to the Fredericksburg region for an April 2 gathering at Maltese Brewing Company in Spotsylvania County, even though they currently reside in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Her episode is titled “A Taste of Their Own Medicine” as for the first time in the show’s history, two members of the crew attempted to survive 21 days in a hostile environment.
Holcombe has worked on various episodes of “Naked and Afraid” as part of the nearby crew, ready to assess the situation if someone is bordering on exhaustion, infection or collapse from sheer hunger. She’s also a flight paramedic.
#3. Janis Holcombe’s education
Source: USA Today
Being an emergency first-responder for survivalist shows or everyday life wasn’t exactly on her radar 20 years, when she graduated from Colonial Forge High School in Stafford. Holcombe wanted to be an investigative journalist. But after she earned a bachelor’s in media arts and design from James Madison University, she couldn’t find a job anywhere.
Her parents, Laurie and the late Bob Holcombe, had been volunteering with Aquia Harbour Rescue Squad. Janis Holcombe became a volunteer emergency medical technician to bide her time “and fell in love with it.”
Emergency medicine became her new career and she worked with the Spotsylvania County Department of Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Management. She had some other personal experiences, including suffering a near-fatal medical error, that she can’t discuss, either, and they changed her way of thinking.
“I decided to seize any opportunity that piques my interest,” she said, including running marathons and spartan races. About the same time, Janis noticed that “Naked and Afraid” was seeking medics and she applied. She ended up being on the medical crew for segments in Louisiana, Peru/Amazon, Montana and New Mexico. During the latter one, she fell in love with the “land of enchantment” and later moved there.
#4. First Look at Janis & Viktor’s Meeting on ‘Naked and Afraid’
Source: Naked and Afraid
Check out a new teaser for this upcoming episode of “Naked and Afraid.” In the teaser, survivalists and paramedics Janis and Viktor have to survive 21 days in Guyana’s Rupununi region, where they will have to overcome lack of food and swarms of unrelenting insects.
The two revealed that they have been paramedics behind-the-scenes for the show. Years ago, Janis appeared in an episode of “Naked and Afraid XL,” in which she used her medic skills to help a contestant who survived injuries to his groin region.
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