Reality Star Who Ate Rare Bird Claims He’s Just the Fall Guy
The reality TV show contestant who killed and ate a rare bird while filming in New Zealand claimed that other contestants were “involved” in the scandal that got him booted from the competition.
“Other teams were aware and were present and involved in this whole thing,” 26-year-old Spencer ‘Corry’ Jones, who appeared in the U.S. survival competition Race to Survive: New Zealand, told RealityTea in an interview published July 9—a day after the episode in which Jones was disqualified aired.
Jones, a river guide based in Wyoming, received an official warning from New Zealand’s Department of Conservation for hunting down a weka bird, a flightless and endangered species that is protected under New Zealand law. The TV crew was also put “on notice” over the incident, according to local reports.