'Bullseye' Host Kellan Lutz Explains How He Would Insure His Body

Mandi Bierly
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In the new Fox competition series Bullseye, premiering this week, eight competitors (four men and four women) perform challenges that involve using their bodies like human darts to hit targets — all with the hope of walking away with $50,000.

As Kellan Lutz (The Legend of Hercules, The Expendables 3) tells it, he didn’t realize he was being asked to host the show when he was first contacted to appear on it. “I said, ‘For sure, I’d love to do the stunt. What stunt am I doing?’” But after giving the hosting offer some thought, and confirming that he could fit it into his movie schedule and do at least a few of the stunts along the way, he happily signed on.

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His favorite stunt on the show is the human slingshot. “That one consists of two cranes. They have cables 50 feet up, and I’m attached to a harness. They pull me back from a dune buggy to get those cables nice and tight. They release,” he says, “and you get launched over a canyon. Your mission is to drop a Bullseye bomb down to a Bullseye 300 feet below in the canyon. So you get to free-fly like a superhero.”

With that in mind when Lutz visited Yahoo TV, we asked him to pretend that we were insuring his body for $10 million. How would he divide the payouts? Watch the video above.

If the show is lucky enough to get renewed for a second season, Lutz hopes he’ll get to help design the stunts. It’s something he used to do for himself and his five brothers growing up on a farm in Iowa. “We had a golf cart that we would rig up and put firecrackers on, thinking that would increase the speed. We had our ATVs that we’d [use to] go up and down the hills. We had our fire pit that I was obsessed with. In Iowa, you burnt your trash. I was like, ‘I’ll do it! I’ll do it!’ So we’d burn it, and then we would just shoot gasoline into it,” he says. “So then we’d start rigging up courses, and we’d time each other and see who could be the most destructive, essentially, with these ATVs and with these lawn mowers that you would control with the levers. I was a huge MacGyver junkie, so I think that’s what helped me design the challenges.”

Bullseye premieres Wednesday, May 27 at 9 p.m. on Fox.