[Cecil Terwilliger]

I kinda feel bad, but mostly I think this is hilarious.

One year after they retreated into the harsh Scottish wilderness with visions of TV glory, the cast of a Survivor-style British reality show have emerged into a world that appears to have forgotten about them.

Dubbed “Eden,” the show was cancelled in October and all social media accounts connected with the program have gone eerily silent.

What’s more, the 10 remaining contestants have been deliberately kept in the dark about world events.

After 12 months battling flies in the Scottish highlands, they are now discovering a world where Donald Trump is president, Theresa May is prime minister, and the U.K. will soon no longer be part of the European Union.

“Eden was definitely an experiment and it hasn’t gone well,” a source close to the show told U.K. tabloid The Sun in January.

Conditions in the camp also reportedly began to deteriorate in the ensuing months. The patch of land is notoriously windy and beset with bloodsucking midges — which is why locals can’t seem to remember it being farmed at any point since the Bronze Age.

The four heavily edited episodes witnessed by British viewers already started to show hints of a Lord of the Flies-style unravelling...

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