The tribesmen were also very curious to see how his iPhone worked. Iovane, a 31-year-old British star of the show “Shipwrecked,” said that he and his girlfriend were even beaten with machetes when they tried to get out of the jungle where they were being held. They tore up my T-shirt to blindfold me and the awful thought crossed my mind that we could be on the menu.” “We’d joked about the famous cannibals of Papua New Guinea’s jungle,” Iovane said, “but it was no laughing matter when these men came out of the bush.They looked very scary in native costumes and what looked like warpaint and came closer before circling around us. Matthew Iovane and his girlfriend Michelle Clemens were captured by painted and feathered tribesmen in Papua, New Guinea and forced to strip under threat of death. Well, that’s exactly what happened to a couple recently. Imagine being on a tropical paradise vacation and being confronted by a tribe of cannibals who want to torture you. We've got your morning reading covered.WARNING: Some of the images in this article are graphic.
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