A JOURNALISM graduate from south Wiltshire is one of the latest castaways to join the Sharks and Tigers on two desert islands in the South Pacific.

Viewers of Channel 4's Shipwrecked programme saw 23-year-old Kim Davidson arrive on the islands, where two tribes are battling it out in the popularity stakes for a £70,000 prize.

The programme started three months ago with ten people landing on the two islands where they were divided into the Shark and Tiger tribes.

A new arrival each week has to decide which tribe to join and at the end of the series later this month, the tribe with the most members wins.

Kim, whose family live in Amesbury, is the 15th new arrival.

The journlism graduate from Bournemouth University had a week to decide which tribe she wanted to join before opting for the Sharks.

In reality, she has been back in Britain since the middle of January - the series started filming in the Cook Islands last September and Kim flew out to the islands on December 15 as one of the last contestants to join the show. She spent five weeks as a castaway. "It was absolutely fantastic," she told the Journal, where she spent a week three years ago on work experience.

"The people were brilliant - they send a diverse mix and some you get on with and others you don't.

"You come back thinking you'll stay friends forever, and I've stayed in good contact with several of them."

Kim was selected after three rounds of auditions.

"I've always been a massive fan of the show and wrote in when the last series ended," she added.

"I think they liked the fact I'm a competitive person. I went out with the intention of having a good time, but wanting to win."

Kim, who has just started a job in marketing and copywriting in London, said although the castaways were given food rations and basic equipment, there were no extras when the cameras stopped rolling.

"What you see is what you get," she insisted. We were truly living off lambs' tongues and corned beef.

"We used to dream about cheese and pizza.

"We were given a weekly food drop - the rations were not tiny but were not massive either.

"Our main snack was coconut which, unfortunately, has the side effect of being a laxative, which makes you even more hungry."

The sporty blonde, who admits to a penchant for DIY which came in very useful, says the best bit about the experience was getting to know people.

"I'm not a find yourself' sort of person," she added.

"But I did learn about not judging people too quickly - the best thing is you really get to know people."

But whether those people ended up winners or losers, she wasn't revealing anything.