Shark Week's Paul de Gelder on Becoming a Mascot for the Annual Discovery Channel Event

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Shark Week's Paul de Gelder on Becoming a Mascot for the Annual Discovery Channel Event
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The figure has become a staple of the Discovery Channel event.

Discovery Channel has spent several years finding notable figures to host their annual Shark Week celebration of the impressive fish, initially starting with Discovery icons like the MythBusters or Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe, while recent years have seen them bring in talent like Jason Momoa, Dwayne"The Rock" Johnson, or Shaquille O'Neal to serve as MCs.

ComicBook: In what might be the most difficult question for you to answer: what's your favorite kind of shark?Everyone wants to know what you think, everyone's demanding you answer. But then I got it after a while. I was like,"Okay, well, obviously adrenaline might've played a part or something like that, but I can honestly say it absolutely, devastatingly, painfully ... It took the fight out of me, that's how much it hurt, to the point where I had to accept the fact that I was going to die. Then when the shark removed my hand and removed my hamstring -- the attack was only eight seconds, and so that gave adrenaline time to enter my system.

I drew two things when I was a kid: sharks and dinosaurs. I loved them, I knew nothing about them, but Shark Week was just this big thing where you got to see these mythological creatures that I'd never seen. I think that's something that stays with you through your whole life, and there are very few things in life that will actually do that.

I wonder if that's a boy thing. We just love the animals that can destroy things. And they're so much easier to draw than lions and tigers.I only got to watch one of your specials this year, but I feel like every night of Shark Week people are going to get to see you on their TV.

"And for my next trick I'm going to parachute onto a snowboard and snowboard off a cliff and then free dive into the ocean with sharks."

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