 Doctors in an Agadir hospital were unable to contact Blyden's family for several days as Blyden had been carrying no identification.Blyden died on June 6, just twenty-four days before the series was to premiere.Goodson-Todman had very little time to react to Blyden's death (the first tapings for the series were only a few days away) and substituted Bobby Van into the hosting role.