The Real-Life Diet of Orlando Bloom, Who Purged Himself With Frog Poison
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In his new Peacock series Orlando Bloom: To the Edge, the actor Orlando Bloom scales a 400-foot crag, freedives 100 feet on one breath, and jumps out of a plane at 13,000 feet to try wingsuiting for the first time. His wellness practices, as he tells GQ, have involved a similar amount of gutsiness: getting dosed with frog poison, embarking on a fast that involves eating bentonite clay. More than 20 years after Bloom was first introduced to audiences worldwide as the platinum blond elf Legolas in...

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