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Alfie, Joe, and Marcus Do Release the Hounds

By Mary-Katherine

Alfie Deyes, Joe Sugg, and Marcus Butler took on a brutal assault course, a haunted playground, and speed dating – and were chased by hounds! – on ITV2’s Release the Hounds, all in the name of charity.

Joe was raising money for AgeUK, and Alfie for Chestnut Tree House, while Marcus Butler represented Anti-Bullying.

The boys began their trek with a rendition of Bob Marley’s Don’t Worry About A Thing, and as they strolled along, we admittedly were already feeling quite worried.

However, the singalong was received less enthusiastically in the forest than by viewers at home, as the group were promptly kidnapped.

Some of us struggle to coordinate ourselves normally, let alone when chained to two other people by our feet while crossing an intense assault course involving a real flamethrower. Massive props to the boys for making it through without any broken limbs!

Forget Rock, Paper, Scissors – the boys chose the Game of Fives to decide who’d be first up against the hounds, much to the perplexity of presenter Reggie Yates. Note to self: from now on decide all important matters from with this unorthodox game.

In the tense moment before the hounds were released, Alfie accurately summed up our lives every time we have to do anything remotely exerting:

We love the ever-chipper Joe for always being able to look on the bright side – y’know, even when trapped at a terrifying dinner party. Unfortunately, Marcus wasn’t having such a great time as he used his mouth to transfer live crickets, tongue, and even blood, into the mouths of Joe’s dates.

When Marcus outran the hounds, we weren’t the only ones screaming “YES MARCUS!” at the TV. In fact, it trended on Twitter all by itself.

For the final challenge, Joe found himself alone in a nightmare playground complete with mysterious figures and moving equipment offset by some seriously creepy music. Rather you than us, Joe! It’s things like this that are the reason we spend so much time inside.

During Joe’s run, an interesting comparison was spotted:

In total the boys managed to raise a fantastic £9,000 and £6,000 for AgeUK and Anti-Bullying respectively, despite losing Alfie along the way (RIP Alfie). We’re very proud of the boys here at TenEighty, as are the rest of the YouTube community:

Us too, Lux. Us too.

Now we’re out from behind the sofa…

You can catch Release the Hounds over on the ITV Hub now. Meanwhile if you want more, we’ve got you covered:

For updates follow @TenEightyUK on Twitter or like TenEighty UK on Facebook.

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Published 4 March 2017.

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