Get ready for The Big Adventure Would you step away from your everyday life for the chance to make your dreams come true? Twelve regular Australians will be Grid in the hope of unearthing a These 12 ordinary Aussies will be doing just that. They will walk into The golden key. Only one of those keys pushed to their limits as their skills, Big Adventure with a dream and one will unlock the million dollar prize. smarts, speed and stamina are of them will walk away a millionaire. tested. The challenges are unlike anything But achieving their dream will not be ever seen before and will take place They will have to embrace the easy. on the Sky Rig, a stadium suspended unknown and face their fears Seven’s new adventure series will over water. head on. There will be doubts, see 12 strangers compete in extreme disappointments and failure. Host Jason Dundas will be there conditions for the prize of a lifetime. for all the thrills and spills. “The aim But those who don’t give up on On a secret island in the South of the game is to dig up as many their dreams will be triumphant. Pacific, carved out of the jungle, sits golden keys as possible,” he says. One million dollars lies waiting… the Treasure Grid. Under one of the “The more keys you have, the greater which lucky person will dig their way squares, a life-changing prize lies your chance of unlocking the million to victory? buried – one million dollars. bucks. Our players will do whatever The Big Adventure is an original In every episode, contestants will it takes to earn the right to dig for a Seven production from the makers of earn the right to dig in the Treasure fortune.” My Kitchen Rules and House Rules. Annaleis was drawn to shower and I don’t have dreadlocks,” science brain and I like to understand animal conservation she laughs. things and solve problems.” from the day she was With only one food drop a week and An outdoor lover, she keeps fit given her first toy just two hours of generator-powered sailing, kite surfing, cycling and monkey. Annaleis electricity at night, she was forced playing Gaelic football, not to mention “I can remember always to leave when she became seriously running after her rescue dog Ash. 28/Conservationist/WA having an affinity with ill with a ruptured cyst. “Sumatra “I actually hate running. But she gets primates. I got my first toy was painful; it definitely felt like I was me out of the house every day.” monkey when I was three and it grew going to die.” The single blonde says she is super from there,” she explains. Back in Australia she found her competitive, but has reigned it in due Growing up on Sydney’s northern second vocation – and now works to her work. “In my job you can’t be beaches, she moved to Canberra to as a residential life coordinator at the this mad, aggressive, competitive study. “I realised it had to be more than University of Western Australia in Perth. person but that’s kind of who I am infatuation and I needed to pursue it Living on campus, she looks after inside, it’s just toned down a lot. I am a bit more seriously so that’s why I overseas and indigenous students very, very competitive. I love to win.” studied biological anthropology and and sets up community outreach and She knows it’s this inbuilt sense of specifically primatology and zoology.” volunteering programs. wanting to achieve that has seen her Her studies opened the door to “I see myself as a nurturing person get to where she is today. She doesn’t The Orangutan Project in Sumatra, and a leader, somebody who likes believe in luck, but in reaching out and where she lived in remote jungle and to be out in front and challenging forging the life you want. surgically implanted tracking devices people.” “I have a Ghandi quote tattooed on in orangutans. Annaleis thinks her problem solving my wrist - be the change you wish to “I’m a bit of a tree hugging hippie. abilities will be her biggest weapon see in the world.” Not the stereotypical type - I do on The Big Adventure. “I’ve got a Dream: To set up my own animal conservation sanctuary. Dane hopes to win The Big outdoors, particularly the ocean. of touch as there’s no technology. Adventure so he can change his The keen surfer’s body is adorned Material comforts aren’t important to family’s life for the better. with five different sea-themed tattoos. me at all.” Describing his mum Donna as “the “For the first 21 years of my life, I Dane, who works out five times a Dane kindest person” you’ll ever meet, lived near the ocean and loved every week, is physically ready for anything he says she’s been the backbone of bit of it. I’ll surf for hours or bury The Big Adventure might throw at 25/Landscaper/VIC their family taking care of him and his myself in a deep hole and sit there him. “I am physically strong and two brothers, including his twin Luke waiting for the tide to come in. I like to keeping fit is very important to me.” who suffers from cerebral palsy and zone out and let my mind be free.” Describing himself as kind and is wheelchair bound. Dane, who now resides in Melbourne, honest, Dane says he struggles with Winning The Big Adventure is an is no stranger to adventure having big personalities. “When I’m around opportunity for him to change his swum with great white sharks and loud people, I step back. I can’t talk family’s life forever. free dived with tiger sharks. over someone that’s already trying to control the situation.” “With a bit of money, I could help As a casual tour guide for an eco- mum improve the house to make adventure company, he travels twice Dane is looking forward to competing getting around for Luke a lot easier,” a year to Sumatra leading groups of on the show and proving nice guys he says. “Simple things like building people deep into the jungle where can win. “The Big Adventure is a ramps and improving the house would they learn to live off the land while dream come true because I live for make my brother’s life easier. We’re looking for wild animals. new experiences. To people who say very close and if I could do anything it nice guys come last, you’re wrong!” With no creature comforts like would be to look after my family.” electricity, beds or running water, Growing up on the North Coast of Dane is used to roughing it. “I love the NSW, the single landscape gardener feeling of being in nature surrounded is completely at home in the great by all the animals and being out Dream: To make my brother’s life easier. “People call Tamarama ‘Glamarama’ She also works hard to keep her body because the most beautiful people in shape by going to the gym every in the world go there. It’s known for morning and surfing, swimming, having the most amazing gorgeous paddle boarding, rope climbing, human beings that have ever walked playing netball and water polo. Jess the earth.” But what she loves most is spending 30/Cosmetic Surgery Rep/NSW Jess admits her own beauty is time at the beach with her new fiancé It’s no surprise that Jess grew up to enhanced by the products she sells. Cameron and their dog Gypsy. “Yeah totally. It’s preventative. I’m very be one of the top Botox sales agents If she won The Big Adventure, she’d fortunate that I deal with some of the in Australia. use the money to stage her fantasy best cosmetic physicians and plastic wedding. “My dream at the moment is She started out as a child model and surgeons in the whole of Australia.” at the height of her career – aged six to have the most magnificent wedding - she appeared in a TV commercial She doesn’t understand people who anybody’s ever seen. I want it to be with former Home and Away star Bec don’t make the same effort with their huge and something no-one forgets.” appearance. Cartwright. One thing Jess is not lacking is “Yeah I was a knockout when I was “Looking good to me is really confidence. Describing herself as a little but then you go through that important. I live in the eastern suburbs born leader – “I’m Khaleesi!” – she awkward stage,” she says of her and everybody wants to look good.” has no doubt everyone on The Big Adventure will follow her lead. childhood career. She has forged an incredibly But she manages to still keep up successful career in facial aesthetics “What makes me awesome is that I’m with the beautiful people through her and was recently named sales rep of not afraid to say what I think... and exclusive Sydney eastern suburbs the year. “I’m extremely ambitious; that I’m a leader. Everybody who’s address. Born and bred in Tamarama, I’m really competitive and I don’t like around me just follows my lead and Jess calls herself the ‘mayor of to lose. I like to be number one on the wants to be around me and listens to Tamarama’ because there’s no party leader board and I like everyone to what I’ve got to say.” or event that she’s not invited to.