EXCLUSIVE - From Naked and Afraid to battling ISIS: Former US Marine who starred in reality show weeks ago has joined foreign legion battling extremists

• Joshua Bell appeared in third season of Naked and Afraid in September
• Ex Marine suffered fever and sickness and left show after just five days
• Now 28-year-old has joined group fighting ISIS in Syrian city of Kobane
• He is among large number of foreigners fighting with The Lions Of Rojava
• Britons Jamie Read and James Hughes are also fighting with pro-Kurds
• Group led by Jordan Matson, who made headlines as one of first Americans to join the Kurdish People's Protection Unit (YPG)

A former U.S. Marine has joined a growing foreign legion of Western fighters battling ISIS on the frontline just weeks after he starred in a survival reality TV show.

Photos have emerged on social media that apparently show Joshua Bell, 28, who appeared in the third season of Naked and Afraid, a reality survival show produced by the Discovery Channel. In 'Nicaragua Nightmare', Bell alongside his fellow contestant, Amanda Leigh, had to survive 21 days in the Central American jungle.

The episode was aired in early September 2014 and saw Bell suffering with fever and sickness while helping a female fellow contestant make a bikini out of small strips of duct-tape. Just two months later, on November 10, Bell arrived on the frontline in the besieged city of Kobane

Bell is among the latest foreign volunteers - many of them ex-US, British and Canadian military - to join a group called The Lions Of Rojava, who have been mounting a brave counter attack against Islamic State terrorists in northern Syria over the past few months.

The Lions Of Rojava act as a foreign legion for the Kurdish People's Protection Unit (YPG) - a group that has been mounting a brave resistance against ISIS in Kobane for more that two months.

Bell was a contestant on Naked and Afraid on September 7. In the show, both contestants are strangers and have to work together to survive unassisted in a hostile environment.

In each episode, contestants have to strip naked and meet each other in a tough environment, normally in the middle of a thick jungle or a remote island. The two survivalists have to find clean water, food and build a weather proof shelter.

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