November 23, 2012. Now Wright and Lomu are the stars When the market fails where do you go? As he later told Wright, All it takes is a handful of guys with firearms to see the show and come looking for us.. For anyone who thinks their decision to pursue gold mining is utterly insane, they explained to me how they came to this conclusion in a way that sounds entirely logical. Seconds later, a gunshot rings out. He returned with bad news: The license would not be ready for another six weeks. So they turn to other means. Their wives are also dedicated to the idea of not just funding their own families but making sure Wallys kids and wife are taken care of. He watched in puzzlement as Wright ordered an excavator driver to tear it all down. The program, he soon discovered, was set in Ghana. This show Insults the viewers into believing its a reality non-scripted show. On the night of Nov. 13, Lomu was returning alone from their mining site when he got a phone call from Maciass wife. WHEN two Mormons from Utah signed up to star in a reality show about gold mining in Ghana, they had no idea what they were getting into. Taxis that once passed every 10 minutes, shuttling miners to work, now came a few times per day. They hadnt actually killed anyone, after all, and they were not mining illegally. It was clearly time to go. Etc. This time, they mined on the land of a Ghanaian Mormon bishop who had partnered with Lomus father-in-law. But many viewers of Jungle Gold thought exploiting Ghanaians was precisely what Wright and Lomu had done. Upon arrival, the cast and crew had paid the landowner $50,000 and set up camp on the villages perimeter. Not a land owner. With Scott Lomu, George Wright. Sat 30 Apr PG-VL. The first thing George and I thought when we landed in Ghana was, "I thought WE had problems". Why is mining for gold better (in your opinion) than taking your initial capital and investing it wisely? In the May 29 midseason* premiere of Discovery Channels Alaskan Bush People, A Wolfpack Divided, the Brown family is ready to move into their new home when Ami requires immediate medical attention and must travel to a big city for surgery. So, gold fever its addictive. Villagers set up roadblocks and demanded hundreds of dollars. He later learned Macias had become dependent on pain medication due to injuries he suffered in a roadside bomb attack. And one of their original crew had taken his own life. For instance, the men boasted of paying farmers 10 times their annual wages to mine on their farmland. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://twitter.com/JungleGeorgeVI/status/365907125215576064, https://twitter.com/JungleGoldScott/status/365907460332068864, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFDu1cQjqGaj-3wBYavW1Hg/videos, http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=273569, http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/jungle-gold/videos/run-for-the-border-part-one.htm, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS7g-l3-M5k. I think it would shock a lot of people to hear how encouraging they are, and how supportive they are. DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ensurge, Inc. (Trading Symbol: ESGI) announced today that Scott Lomu and Public Relations and Scott Lomu as Vice President of Investor Relations. The two are former American real estate investors who lost everything in the 2008 market collapse, and are now over $1,000,000 in debt. Phone calls from furious Ghanaian expatriates poured in. Tay saw the show itself as a good thing for the village. Could their adventures be a reality TV show? Near the bottom, he noticed a message from his brother Bill. these comments make me laugh, if show is that bad stop watching it. That November, Bill emailed the treatment to a handful of production companies, including Raw TV, the British company that produces Gold Rush. His optimistic nature notwithstanding, Lomu saw more cause for hope in Ghanas relationship to Mormonism. To guarantee cell service in the bush, the company bought Raw a 30-foot antenna. Jungle Gold. A talk with George Wright and Scott Lomu about "Jungle Gold" Season 2, the move to a new night and the reality of "gold fever." . They wanted to know how we had allowed such a disgusting program to air on TV, a spokesperson for the commission told me. But we like to think our presence is making a difference. Maybe little Scottie will have a headache or a hang nail as his next excuse for constant failure. Take a good look, Scottie, he said. Lomu and Macias had been best friends growing up; as a teenager, Lomu had baptized him into the Mormon church. I'm honestly not a fan of Reality tv at all, I want to watch good scripted shows with compelling stories. And were kind of a fast-paced, explosive show, and I do think we attract a little bit younger audience. They abandon $20-60 thousand dollar machines, ( 2 excavators, and a wash plant) in the jungle while they fly back and forth to Utah for two years to whine and complain about how bad there lives are and to beg more money from really stupid investors. Hey guys i heard that their are NO more chinese people who are searching for gold. Most of the times one of the celebrity is famous and then because of him/her, other members get famous as well. What was the viewer reaction following the season premiere of Jungle Gold? Its a sad story, but their determination to continue in Wallys honor is one you have to hear. We split the gold with the locals, & they of themselves dnt [sic] have the machines to get to the gold, Wright wrote to one skeptical American viewer on Twitter who had suggested they mine in the U.S. instead, before softening her opinion. We asked! management team. It was a humbling experience. Hes a gentleman whos a land broker. Sitting on the compounds couch, Wright watched in shock as the clip of him choking the cocoa farmer aired on national television. Rainstorms and excavator breakdowns caused endless delays. They have to prove the new claim is stacked with gold or their investors will pull funding. George Wright have accepted positions as members of the Companys Wright, 32, a mixed martial arts enthusiast with long blonde hair and piercing blue eyes, grew up in California before moving to Utah at 16. In early August 2012, records show, several Raw crew members sat down with Joseph Aboagye, the Minerals Commissions stern director of policy, planning, monitoring, and evaluation. He was sawing into an overcooked hamburger patty when he glanced at the flatscreen on the wall. I thought, Why have the authorities not intervened?. And George and I think as a direct result of the show there are a lot of government and military raids on illegal mining camps, and there are a lot of robberies happening. In the Season 2 synopsis, Raw admitted the first season had produced disastrous results. But lessons had been learned. Because it really is a joke how nave and unprepared these douche bags really are. The company owned a large mining operation in Guyana, a former British colony on the Caribbean coast of South America. But no such vehicles arrived. We were hemorrhaging money, Wright told me. George Wright and Scott Lomu from Discovery's "Jungle Gold" visited the KCAL9 studios Friday to talk about season two of their hit show. After rainstorms, locals with nothing else to do had taken to searching the gutters for specks of gold. But as the cast and crews Land Rovers pull out, a pile of logs impedes their path. The Mormons stuck to soda. Also, reclaiming and replanting was mentioned and shown, but sadly not near enough, like a 8 seconds. To me, reality shows are like watching professional wrestling. A lot of questions have been asked in Ghana about how, and why so many illegal miners were allowed to mine in Ghana without paperwork for so long. We are Scott Lomu & George Wright, We can't speak to other reality shows but are happy to share about ours and what it's been like. Had anyone in the terminal listened to the radio the day before, the sight of two dozen white people discreetly filming themselves on iPhones and iPads should have rung alarms. Airing in the slot behind Gold Rush, it had helped Discovery dominate the Friday night cable ratings. This show is 90% scripted, the laws they portray in the show are complete non-sense. George Wright and Scott Lomu of Discovery's "Jungle Gold" (Sundays at 10:00 p.m. After a month of waiting, Alan Reece, the mining foreman, contacted the landowner for an update on his application. They explain better he is a broker. Whatever it is, thats what we realized they were saying I wish I could do that. Meaning that dream. If anyones going to make money from gold digging here (other than corrupt officials, thieves and the Chinese government), they at least have a shot. G: Oh man if Scott sees this, he's gonna have hay day on this question. Second Point, the amount of catastrophic failures the show incures is absurd, there are moments in the show a viewer can easily spot a setup. The heart and soul of this amazing piece of equipment are the people, Wright narrates. On the morning of May 11, the cast and crew arrived at Kotoka International Airport. We met him last year. | December 22, 2022 In a surreal scene, Lomu jumps in the car with a gold bar he says is worth $75,000, before a masked man runs out of the jungle firing a machine gun, steals the gold and runs off. These two are typical failed realtors who have entitlement issues just like the rest of the yuppies of their generation. It brought back a lot of stressful memories, Wright said. What sort of feedback do you get from viewers about the show? Primary Income source American Football Player (profession). Olivia Newton-Johns daughter has revealed how she keeps her connection to her mother alive months after her tragic passing. The site itself was a wide clearing in the jungle scarred by gaping 20-foot pits, where Ghanaian laborers wrangled the equipment in pools of coffee-colored mud. locations., Scott Lomu stated, George and I have been approached numerous times to Really angry that certain things would happen here on our soil. Many thought the stars had killed a man a rumor based on a YouTube clip of Wright choking out the cocoa farmer. Then the Joy News team got ahold of Inusah Fuseini, Ghanas minister of lands and natural resources. 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1975th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 975th year of the 2nd millennium, the 75th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1970s decade. In 2011, an undercover video published by Al Jazeera revealed Ghanaian children as young as 14 working in Chinese-run mining pits. Under Ghanaian law, Wright and Lomu could not physically mine. Both men had worked in Utah's real estate market, had young families to support and debts piling up. Season 1 Ep 12. Still, they thought the furor would blow over. BLOCK! (The agency did not respond to questions about the status of its investigation.). Additionally, Mr. Lomu has been appointed as Chairman of the Company . mining company with profitable operations., Ensurge, Inc. is a Colorado-based holding company that has been engaged Within months of Jungle Golds U.S. premiere in October 2012, they had become the face of Ghanas foreign mining community, which many blamed for destroying the countrys environment and harming its people. If you take any human being out to a site where theres gold, and give him a shovel and they find gold there, theyll say, Give me more shovels, give me more people! Because its really quite addictive once you catch it. According to Lomu, Raw later paid Akwesi $3,000 for his troubles. A month later, the government cracked down illegal foreign miners, and thousands of Chinese nationals were also deported, removing a vital source of income for many villages. They forfeited the cash and moved to a less profitable site. Wright caught malaria. How could I not show that?. Tay, who at 53 resembles an older version of the actor Idris Elba, grew up in Accra before embarking on a mining career in his thirties. After averaging 2.65 million viewers a week during its first season on Discovery Channel last fall, Jungle Gold is back, having started Season 2 on Aug. 11 (now airing on Sundays). He didnt even sound convinced himself when he said to the blonde Neanderthal that he was going back to Utah.for what? Once we did, we got back in touch with him and he had land available still, and from there it was just kind of the beginning of Im not going to say a beautiful relationship, because Im not a huge fan of Dave. The Minerals Commission claimed the crew had pushed ahead without adequate permissions and secretly asked the countrys National Security Agency to investigate them, fearing a stampede of greedy foreign miners, according to Buzzfeed. While Ghanaians in the diaspora were railing against Jungle Gold online, members of Ghanas Minerals Commission were quietly fuming about its existence. Gold, which ran two seasons on the Discovery Channel. The two Americans will be tracked down and arrested, a Ghanaian official declared. Despite their failures, the pair remain hopeful for the future. According to Lomu, Raw had replied that Discovery could not pull the show from Ghana without pulling it from DStv altogether. understanding of conducting mining operations in underdeveloped Afterward, the farmer said, people viewed them more cautiously. become affiliated with a public mining company. But it was Lomus identical twin brother, Bill, a divorce mediator then living in Arizona, who finally took action. I can hardly wait to see what drama they come up with next. We were very happy with them, he said. But no one seemed to recognize them. George: I think this all would have ended a long time ago had our wives and our children, and even extended family and close friends, not been so supportive. (Raw declined to comment on the incident.) As the wheels lifted off, the crew exploded in cheers. We do answer questions and stay in touch here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFDu1cQjqGaj-3wBYavW1Hg/videos. And so they were deeply leveraged when the housing market collapsed in September 2008. Tweet. To ensure the most secure and best overall experience on our website we recommend the latest versions of, Internet Explorer is no longer supported. Now, it seemed, Ghana was taking its revenge. Instead, the men joined a mine support company, run by a fellow Mormon, in the nearby village of Romaso. Scott Lomu and George Wright land at a rural airport in Kumasi, Ghana. There are plenty of other channels. Is it worth all the effort and danger youre going through? What we finally realized after discussing it was people werent saying they wanted to literally go to Ghana to do gold mining but rather they wished they could do whatever it is their dream was, whatever it is they hoped to be able to do be it open up a restaurant, or open up their own salon or become a writer. Hopefully you guys get some good stuff, so everyone can benefit, she responded. But, you will find Ghana a fantastic country. As Richard Bushman, a professor emeritus of history at Columbia University, put it: Mormons think things will work out for the best.. [], On May 1 one day before the first anniversary of Operation Neptune Spear, the special operations mission that led to the killing of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden Discovery Channel will premiere the one-hour special Secrets of Bin Ladens Lair. On Demand DVD New Releases Aug. 26-Sept. 1, The three crew leaders from Discovery Channels Gold Rush series will be featured in a limited summer series called Gold Rush South America, the network announced today. On the morning of May 9, hours before the first article ran, Wright was in Fahiakobo preparing for the days shoot when he received a disturbing call from Reece. So, thanks again. It was January 2011, and Lomu had stumbled onto the first season of Gold Rush, a Discovery Channel reality show that follows three men from Oregon as they mine for gold in Alaska. I feel that resonates with people on a pretty personal level. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. We were in panic mode. Wright found work translating Spanish for an Arizona-based equipment supplier bidding for contracts in Colombias mining sector. Class acts the two of them. They cast Wright and Lomu as hardworking family men engaged in a heroic struggle against hostile and uncooperative natives. A heated argument ensued. The shows first season had been a hit, airing on Friday nights behind Gold Rush, Discovery Channels highest-rated show. Life saving hugs or to provide tissues for his whiny wife? All the details of the secret MAFS boys night are spilt at a boozy dinner party that shocks the experts. Not everything works out how you want it to, said Wright. But nothing prevents foreigners from investing in small-scale companies owned by Ghanaians. In perhaps the best-known episode from Jungle Gold, an excavator is ripping up an acre of cocoa trees when an irate cocoa farmer named Akwesi emerges from the bush, machete in hand. We didnt exploit anyone, Lomu told me. When Lomu suggested removing the miners by force, a chief replied: If you attempt it, they will kill you! The crew captured everything on film and loved it. Share. That Mormons would choose to deal gold in West Africa may seem odd, but the pursuit of gold carries historical significance in the Mormon church. Months later, on March 6, 2013, Wright posted a photo on Instagram of Raw interviewing Lomu outside a Utah diner. There is no law against foreigners mining in Ghana, anyone can mine in Ghana granted they use a licensed agent. Reeling from the news, Lomu flew to Utah the next day. Should they find enough gold, they intended to build a Ghanaian schoolhouse in Maciass name. Snow-covered peaks rose in the distance behind him. I got a chance to talk with the pair about how the show came about, how they feel about those that accuse them of faking and what their wives really think of what theyre doing. Check out George Wright's Bio Now He reappears with a gold bar he claims is worth $75,000. They say theyve learnt from their catastrophic, ratings-winning sojourn in West Africa. mining operations. This, like so many other pathetic reality shows should go away forever. You would make a good politician though, you could go cry with Speaker of the House John Boehner about how tough it is to support your trophy wife. There are so many ways to help in Africa, but we are shining a light on the problem of clean water in Africa along with http://www.worldserveintl.org and http://www.peoplewater.com So please donate to World Serve if you are so moved to help this amazing organization. We During a layover at JFK, he checked his voicemail and found it full of condolences from friends and family. I am guessing season two would have already been recorded when this article came out. As Wrights four children bounced on a giant trampoline in the backyard, the men explained that they had returned to Ghana several times since the evacuation, mainly to recover the thousands of dollars in equipment theyd left behind. In this weeks episode, the pressure continues to mount. That was hard, said Wright. SENT to Ghana for a TV series, the American stars of Jungle Gold were accused of destroying the environment, exploiting workers, racism and even murder. Channel. It begins now, Wright wrote. [via press release from Discovery] Furious, Wright and Lomu gathered a dozen local chiefs and tribal elders to solve the dispute. I have never seen this dude, Marie remembers thinking. According to government records, the Minerals Commissions district officer in Dunkwa had discovered Raw filming a mining site without its owners consent. Two guys lose their shirts when the real estate bubble bursts and decide to do the logical thing hunt for gold in Ghana! Since Jungle Gold aired, small mining companies from around the world have contacted Wright and Lomu through Facebook to propose mining partnerships. Scott Lomu and George Wright buying supplies during an episode of Jungle Gold. By August 2012, more than two months into the shoot, the stars joint venture had found only a few ounces of gold. People were actually angry! Donkor told me. What would they film if the stars couldnt mine? But that doesnt tell the full story. Before the men could start legally mining, however, the large-scale license had to come through. First, their new landowner revealed the mining licence wasnt ready, so they couldnt film any actual work. I can say that Parker is a cool kid, he's been supportive to us and so has Fred. Anytime somebody felt we were taking advantage of them, even this idea of colonialism was so off our radar, it felt so out of left field.. It may have been their worst nightmare, but it made gripping TV. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. A soaring Mormon temple, one of only three on the continent, sits in the heart of Accras commercial district, surrounded by European embassies. The little gold they found went directly into equipment costs. One Ghanaian commenter wrote, This is a disgrace for a brand such as the Discovery Channel to glorify what these bandits are doing in our country.. But on Macias and Wrights first trip in May 2010 (Lomu stayed behind in Utah), buying gold proved trickier than theyd anticipated. There is no such thing as an emergency with a diagnosis of autism. George Wright and Scott Lomu, former real estate investors that lost everything in the 2008 crash, make the life-altering decision to travel to Ghana in West Africa to hunt for gold. We partner with mines to digitize their precious elements. Worst of all, popular radio station Joy FM claimed Wright had killed the man he was filmed choking. The people are very friendly and non aggressive. Two weeks later, before the commission had a chance to review the seven-page document, Aboagye said, Jungle Gold premiered in the U.S. The only money these guys will ever have is the money they get from the producer who pays them at least $20-30,000 per episode. The Guyana operation was expanding, and Mishleau valued Wright and Lomus years of mining experience in Ghana. G: When the show gets edited they are continually making editing choices between our daily life choices and events. (George: 100 duck sized horses for sure, Scott: 1 duck sized horse) (Will do videos for Karma), Jungle Gold on Discovery Channel this Sunday's 10/9c after Breaking Bad on AMC. Ghanaian law prohibits non-Ghanaians from mining on plots of 25 acres or less, which make up Ghanas small-scale mining sector. Literally, I have never been so scared, Wright told me. What the freak is this? Lomu shouted. Its still higher than when we originally went to West Africa to find it. We didnt want them to present Ghana as a lawless place where foreigners can come and engage in illegal mining, he explained. Lomu and Wright promised to show people more respect and understanding. Weve always felt like maybe we need to have the production company subtitle him with truth. Bottom line, hes surprised us in a lot of good ways, and hes surprised us in a lot of bad ways, as youll see in the season to come. It could be a painful reality but that's the way it is. Season 2. Petitions called for its cancellation and Wright and Lomu were attacked on social networks and in the media. Lomu and Wright sat in the back and ducked. This was a good start. . Scott Lomu. Scott Lomu might have a wife or a husband. For fun (I didnt want anything out of it, Bill told me), he learned the format for reality show treatments from a producer friend in Los Angeles. George Wright and Scott Lomu will risk it all to strike it rich as part of a golden plan to recover from losing everything in the real estate crash of 2008. It was tempting, but it didnt make sense: Anyone could sell gold to the state-run Precious Minerals and Marketing Company for just 2% under the global price. When I visited Aboagye in his cluttered office the following year, he told me hed requested a synopsis of the program the crew planned to make. Large-scale licenses begin at around $3 million, putting them out of Wright and Lomus price range. To raise the rest, they decided to deal gold in the jungle. Lomu peeked out the compounds window, half expecting a military convoy to break down the gate and haul them away. Nature Treasure Hunting Adventure & Exploration The camera catches a masked African man dashing into the jungle, a submachine gun in one hand and Lomus gold bar in the other. Six months later, in May 2012, Wright and Lomu met with the Raw crew inside an opulent conference room at the Golden Tulip hotel in Accra to discuss the projected arc of Season 1. The new reality show Jungle Gold started broadcasting across Africa on MultiChoice's DStv from the . The new operation went as poorly as the first. Though vilified in the press, Tay said, the Chinese miners had improved the local way of life: installing electricity in thatched huts, building a public restroom with flush toilets, and putting dozens of unemployed young men to work in the mines. The kids autism is just another excuse for the idiot to stop working and run home. We hope it's a win-win. Net Worth in 2021. Same here, it completely went down hill with all of the reality shows. A lot of people are like, Oh theres a camera, well act like this, said Wright. It's humbling to see the poverty that exists there. Those guys on the dredge they were having a really good time. He paused. You were slightly mislead. But Raw believed they could meet the challenges of filming a gold-mining operation in Ghana; in the Season 1 synopsis, they noted that their contributors would be paragons of responsible mining. Discovery, which had green-lit the show in March, had insisted Wright and Lomu hire locals, replant cocoa crops on mined land, and abide by the rules of Ghanas Environmental Protection Agency. The men worked 18-hour days, commuting two hours over rutted dirt roads through poverty-stricken villages. A month after the Jungle Gold evacuation, the Ghanaian government conducted a nationwide crackdown on illegal foreign miners, causing thousands of Chinese nationals to be deported. When the cast and crew arrived on the first day of filming, however, they found it crawling with Chinese miners. With prices at an all-time high, Ghana has become a hotzone for . If you cannot answer that for Spoiler reasons, how many months were you in Ghana for, this year? The chief warned that if they fought the miners, they would be killed. I think they just wanted us out of there, Wright said. But they only had $35,000 left. But they trust us enough to know that there are certain lines that we wont cross and that we have, believe it or not, enough common sense to stay alive. All were shocked to think Americans would film themselves engaging in illegal mining, let alone broadcast it. Never had a real job or a real education, never think ahead or do research about anything. In exchange, he asked Wright and Lomu to put up $50,000. They hired a former special services agent to beef up security and instituted a no-mercury policy, barring laborers from handling the toxic liquid. By this time, Ghanas mining industry was in chaos, with Al Jazeera reporting on the dangers of illegal mining, fuelled by widespread corruption. in exploring and developing gold mining opportunities in South and North They just have to survive long enough to go back and tell the world, I guess. The production team swore to take a different approach to the second series. When I asked what he and others had made of the predominantly white film crew in their midst, he shot me a confused look. But none of them seemed In April 2013, six months after its U.S. premiere, Jungle Golds first season had debuted in Ghana on DStv, an African satellite network with 8 million subscribers. Whether the Information Services Department had instructed Raw to seek the commissions approval is unclear; the permit protocol for foreign documentary film crews in Ghana was somewhat vague in 2012. There were more tweets during our reruns that Sunday [during a Season 1 marathon] than we got all of last year. When the captain took off the seatbelt sign, they roamed the cabin, high-fiving each other and cracking cans of beer. Visionary entrepreneur and leader. I talked with Scott and George by phone recently about Jungle Gold, a few days after the Season 2 premiere. I can say this, the head guy on Gold Rush hates us and we don't know why? TV-PG. 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