--- title: Eaten Alive Viewers Outraged Paul Rosolie Wasn't Eaten Alive description: Discovery had refused to say how much Rosolie was actually consumed canonical: https://time.com/3623093/eaten-alive/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-08T12:20:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:38:51.902Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Eaten Alive' Viewers Outraged Man Wasn't Actually Eaten Alive og:description: Discovery had refused to say how much Rosolie was actually consumed og:url: https://time.com/3623093/eaten-alive/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte70e987760fc29eb/69876d44cd1bba0c726f4016/eaten-alive-snake-rosolie.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Eaten Alive Rosolie Snake og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Eaten Alive' Viewers Outraged Man Wasn't Actually Eaten Alive twitter:description: Discovery had refused to say how much Rosolie was actually consumed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte70e987760fc29eb/69876d44cd1bba0c726f4016/eaten-alive-snake-rosolie.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Eaten Alive_ Viewers Outraged Man Wasn't Actually Eaten Alive > Sponsored content. 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Many viewers felt Discovery had pledged adventurer Paul Rosolie would be utterly consumed by an anaconda on his special Sunday night. After all, the show was called _Eaten Alive_ and its official programming guide description told viewers that a man “enters the belly of an anaconda.” What viewers eventually saw during the two-hour special was a large anaconda attack Rosolie, coil around him, then start to eat his helmet. That’s when Rosolie had to call in his team to rescue him, saying his arm was being crushed. “I started to feel the blood drain out of my hand and I felt the bone flex, and when I got to the point where I felt like it was going to snap I had to tap out,” he said. MORE: [The 11 Most Influential Animals of 2014](http://time.com/3606229/influential-animals-2014/) As we pointed out in our [in-depth Q&A](http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/11/30/discovery-anaconda-rosolie-interview/), Discovery had refused to say how much Rosolie was actually consumed. When we asked Rosolie how much he was “eaten,” he told us, “the story of this is an attempt. When you say Nik Wallenda is going to cross the Chicago skyline, they didn’t promise he was going to make it; they promised he would attempt it. So the show is called _Eaten Alive_ and that’s what we worked as hard as we could to do. As for what happens, you’ll have to watch.” Rosolie also said he spent months recovering from the encounter. Yet as a result of the way the show was marketed, a special that was once slammed by animal activists for being “cruel” to a snake is now being mocked on Twitter for not going far enough: > [](https://twitter.com/H%5FTownRacer/status/541848831244369920) > [](https://twitter.com/ReaganKingIsles/status/541805969681182720) > [](https://twitter.com/TD%5FBDelinski/status/541815554559180800) > [](https://twitter.com/itsjesstucker/status/541848851070451712) > [](https://twitter.com/GoshJosh%5F12/status/541848415965966336) For more, here’s our [interview with Rosolie](http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/11/30/discovery-anaconda-rosolie-interview/). 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