The National Geographic channel show Life Below has produced several beloved characters who long after the show have remained dear to the hearts of viewers of the show. One of such person is Sue Aikens who has been resident in the Kavik River camp region of Northern Alaska for well over twenty years. She joined the Life Below Zero family sometime in 2013 and is still a big part of the show, unlike Sipsey the dog who has long ceased to be a part of the show alongside his owner Alex Javor. Other characters like Kate has equally left but others like Skarlett are still on but in a less serious capacity.
Where is Sue Aikens Today?
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Since Sue Aikens’ sojourn on Life Below Zero, she has stayed put where she lived even before the show gave her prominence. She spent most of her early life on the Kavik River camp and has continued to live away from civilization enjoying the solitude of her time with nature and the wild. She is so far from other people that the closest settlement to her place of abode is well over 200 miles away towards the northern corner of the Arctic Circle.
While many think this has always been her life, the story of her life says something else. The producer and reality TV star was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 1, 1963. This is where she spent the bulk of her early life before making the huge move to Alaska that would determine the rest of her life. Having always been the adventurous kind, the move to Alaska fulfilled a big need for her in the sense that she got her fill of it.
As a young girl, her father kept uprooting their family back and forth until her parent’s union hit the rocks. Post-divorce Sue along with her mother relocated to Alaska and settled in Fairbanks. This was not easy to adapt at first but got worse after her mother left her all alone, thereby forcing her to adjust in that extreme place with no one to lean on for help. She survived, however; even learned to love the place after an old Alaskan taught her how to hunt and more importantly, how to use a gun.
She had lived there prior to the LBZ, developed her own way of life, and earned the admiration of many. So, upon hearing about her, and as LBZ was taking shape, she was included in the show right from the onset and has never missed any appearance ever since.
Prior to that, however, she also featured in another TLC show called Sarah Pailin’s Alaska. One does not need to say too much about the show, this was the very show that made her popular to be cast in LBZ. Another series she was involved in is Flying Wild Alaska. In 2022 Sue also acted as a producer in the movie Panama.
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She Got Another Cabin In Alaska In 2017
In 2017 while Sue was still battling a court case with the producers of LBZ over injuries she had sustained after having been forced to shoot in a treacherous territory, she had more issues come calling when the government opened the Arctic National Wildlife and Refuse to the drilling of oil and gas. This had always been a possibility but not one she foresaw happening so soon.
The government argued that she could not claim the land and that it was only a matter of time before she was removed from there by the anyways and they were doing it because they had good need for the property. Instinctively, as one thought it was traversing to the unknown, she quickly took precautions by acquiring a different cabin that was abandoned in Chena, Alaska.
The rationale for acquiring a different place was to escape being homeless in the event that the Government decided to muzzle her and confiscate her present place while the issue was still being ironed out.
What Happened to Sipsey On Life Below Zero?
It was a sad day when fans realised that Sipsey the talented dog who everyone loved will no longer be a part of the cast of Life Below Zero. While speculations seemed to come up with only sinister reasons for why he was no longer there, the truth is that he never came on the show of his own volition. he joined the show when his owner Alex did and equally left when his owner did.
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his time on the show was obviously a lot more shorter than fans would have loved because he and his owner were first sighted in 2020 and stayed for barely two years on the rather interesting spin off, Next Generation. Much like the theme of the new show, Sipsey’s master Alex left his very lucrative time in the army to go adventuring in Alaska and that was how they came to be on the show.
What Happened To Kate on Life Below Zero?
Kate Rorke, who married Andy Bassich in 2004, was born in 1956, and is 69. The reality show Life Below Zero first introduced her to the world, along with her ex-husband, Andy Bassich. The former couple made their first appearance on the show in 2013 during its premiere.
While Kate exited from the show in 2015, Andy still appears in the reality television series. As it has been narrated, she left the show prematurely because of some issues that she was having in her marriage to Andy which led to their divorce the following year.
Andy had met Kate years after she had traveled to Alaska for a vacation, and after some time, they were wed. This was because they enjoyed each other’s company so well, that it was not long before they were husband and wife. Even for many years after marriage the couple was inseparable and even ran a wilderness and dog training school for several years. They also had their own training dogs numbering approximately 25 sled dogs.
As far as the episodes of Life Below Zero go, one would be right to think that not only were they close, but everything in their marriage was in order. But the truth is that in a couple of seasons to come, season 10 to be precise, Kate was no longer on the screens after the Out of control episode of the season.
It also became obvious that Kate’s departure from the series occurred after she parted ways with Andy. Their marriage only lasted until 2016, the year of their divorce. There were, however, no children born of that union.
For the reason that there was widespread domestic abuse that ensured Kate moved from Andy and the show Life Below Zero, the reality television personality attributed her separation to her ex-husband’s violent behavior. In one of the short entries concerning the issue on the alaskayukonadventure blog, she wrote that there is nothing wrong with being in an abusive relationship, it is not your fault, and there are people who can help.
What Happened to Skarlett on Life Below Zero
Skarlett has not experienced much of anything significant over her frequent appearances on Life Below Zero, but she no longer plays a pivotal role in the show. Skarlett Haze DeWilde is known to be Ricko Dewilde’s daughter and has been part of LBZ with her dad and the rest of their family. One of her appearances was during the first chapter of the series titled Women of the North in the year 2022, where she explored being an Athabaskan woman, and the power of her roots.
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Ricko DeWilde, an Athabascan Indian, and a father to Skarlett was born in 1976 on the 4th day of July and is currently 48. He was born and raised in a place called Huslia in the state of Alaska along with 13 other siblings under the care of his parents, Lloyd and Amelia DeWilde, who had two different families. Ricko loved his childhood house, but as he got older he discovered that the progressive settlements were progressively encroaching upon the village, which meant that he had to return to the wild which is where Skarlett and his other four children are currently.
Skarlett Haze DeWilde is the third-born child of her father and she was taken away far inside the bush where she was trained in the art of fishing, hunting, gun practicing, and many other activities. Skarlett’s father joined the cast of the show in 2018 and has been one of the most loved cast members especially since he first appeared on the show. It is after that, when she started showing up on the screen, that his other relatives started appearing – his wife and kids, including Skarlett. She has been on the television show for quite some time and has gained popularity, but her life outside the show has remained a mystery.
Why Did Jessie Holmes Leave Life Below Zero?
Jessie Holmes was for a short period gone from Life Below Zero after incurring an injury in 2022 but has since resumed filming and has been appearing in the 2023 seasons of the National Geographic show.
He was born on February 20, 1982, and is now 43 an actor in this reality show for so many years. To begin, Jessie expressed only a mild interest when he was first invited to participate in the show, but he later changed his mind and opted to let some parts of his life be filmed. He became part of the show in 2015 when its sixth season was being telecast.
The television personality, who has always maintained looking at solutions and not problems, was, however, in a very bad situation which was going to take him out of the show for good. This was during the Iditarod race when a heavy object fell on Jessie in Golovin, a town in Alaska, in September 2022.
Jessie Holmes got involved in the accident after he went to help clean up the dump that was caused by Typhoon Merbok. The historic storm had over the western part of Alaska caused a good deal of destruction and so Holmes together with fellow mushers Richie Beattie, Brent Sass, and Jeff Deeter had to go help out. While they were in construction work, Holmes and Sas stood on a plywood. It is while doing this that, according to Sas, Holmes attempted to pull down a plank, and the place caved in over them. He was only pinned a bit but his partner was beneath the debris.
He was later flown out to Nome for medical attention after which he was also transferred to a hospital in Anchorage. Thankfully, he was not as badly injured as it was threatening and so he was treated and discharged. Still, a GoFundMe was put up for him to assist with surgeries that need to be done as he had, unfortunately, sustained broken ribs, some internal injuries, and a disconnected joint.