Hunted stars Bayan and Eesha reveal the unspoken rule of the hit show that they must follow to help them stay ‘on the run’: ‘You have to have a game plan’

Hunted stars Bayan and Eesha have revealed the unspoken rule of the hit show that all the contestants must abide by. 

Speaking to Yahoo! Lifestyle after their elimination, the pair revealed the teams must change their locations every 48 hours, which helps them remain ‘on the run’.

The real-life adventure series is centred on a team of surveillance experts who ‘hunt’ 20 contestants out to evade capture over 21 days, with the final winner landing a cash prize worth $100,000. 

‘Ideally, if you were a real fugitive you would just go out bush for like, six months, a year, and that would be it. But because we are in this sort of contrived environment there are some rules in place that make you move or do risky activities, and one of the well-known rules is you have to move every 48 hours,’ Eesha explained. 

‘So as you come to the end of that 48 hours you have to have a game plan, and to do that, you have to either talk to someone or borrow a phone or have some sort of communication or something in order to get that next assistance lined up.’

Eesha added: ‘We can’t just sit in the bush for 21 days.’

The pair were eliminated during Tuesday’s episode and were found cornered in their apartment. 

It comes after one of the stars of Hunted Australia said the local show is the best version of the international franchise. 

The pair were eliminated during Tuesday’s episode and were found cornered in their apartment

Ben Owen, a British intelligence expert who has featured in the U.K. version of the franchise, said the series produced Down Under is bigger and better than its international rivals.

‘I’m not just saying it because I’m talking to an Australian journalist,’ Owen said of his claims in The Herald Sun on Monday.

‘For me, it’s the most exhilarating one I’ve done,’ he continued.

‘[The local version] It has double the amount of fugitives and we’ve got less time to catch them. We are really up against it tactically to try and get so many people in such a short space of time in such a vast area.’

It comes after one of the stars of Hunted Australia said the local show is the best version of the  franchise. Ben Owen (pictured), a British intelligence expert who has featured in the U.K. version, said the series produced Down Under is bigger and better than its rivals

Elsewhere in the chat, Owen, who has been involved in the U.S. version of the show said the surveillance team looks upon the events of the show as it were ‘real life’.

Channel 10 were quick to commission a second season for 2023 after the show’s debut series scored an average of 1.09 million viewers nationally across its nine episodes.

Hunter Australia was also Channel 10’s most successful new launch since the first season of The Masked Singer in 2019.

Hunter Australia was also Channel 10’s most successful new launch since the first season of The Masked Singer in 2019

Hunted was a winner for streaming platform 10Play too, scoring its biggest catch-up audience since The Bachelor in 2020.

The latest series of Hunted Australia, which is scheduled to finish on August 6, is not quite the spectacular success of the first season.

Debuting on July 18, the series, featuring 10 teams of 2 people, scored 524,000 metro viewers.

Monday’s episode faired poorly against the FIFA World Cup, landing just 362,000 fans in the metro ratings.

Hunted continues Sunday 7:30pm on Channel 10 and 10 Play 

Owen says the Australian series of Hunted is better because the locals have more contestants to capture over a wider area. Pictured: The cast of Hunted U.S.