Eden: Paradise Lost contestant denies sexism and bullying claims in Channel 4 show

One of the participants on Channel 4's reality show Eden: Paradise Lost has denied accusations of bullying and sexism.

Glenn Moore said that the claim "wasn't an experience I recognise".

The social experiment sees 23 men and women left on 600 acres of land in the Scottish Highlands for a year with the challenge of building a new society from scratch.

By the end, more than half of the women on the show had left.

Glenn says there were disagreements but they weren't any worse than the ones that happen in everyday life.

"There's another side to that story," he says.

"If you had had an argument with somebody and somebody had disagreed with you, depending on how softly spoken or harshly spoken you might be, some people may have perceived other opinions as bullying.

"There are different approaches. The girls would have approached it with a more soft, compassionate angle on how to proceed and go forward and sometimes the guys just wanted to get stuff done.

"But generally the guys' attitude was to make sure everyone was looked after."

Katie Tunn was one of the women who stayed until the end.

She says one of the problems was a competitive element, which made it difficult to start a new community.

"The idea of survival was really problematic for us," she's told the Victoria Derbyshire show.

"If you're trying to survive, you're perhaps insulating yourself and you're not looking for the attributes in other people that can work in a community."

The show has had a number of problems.

After initially airing for four episodes last year, Channel 4 was forced to deny that it had been taken off air.

And Glenn Moore, who went into the show as a hunter, says he's surprised to see the experiment branded as a failure.

"If you heard that [someone] had an accident, or that they were lost in the woods, everybody would have got up and run to help them.

"[With] all the conflict and the rifts and the division, it just seems to me it's exactly the same in the outside world.

"You've got 50% who want to be in the EU, roughly half want to be out. It's the same in the US, half are for Donald Trump, half are against him."

Eden: Paradise Lost is on Monday to Friday from 7 August at 10pm on Channel 4.

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