Egyptian talk show host Ramez Galal is no stranger to controversy. Ever since he started his career as the host of daring pranks in 2011, Galal has played many pranks on celebrities that got him into hot water. Paris Hilton, whom he got crying and screaming for her life during a staged plane crash, threatened to sue him. Steven Seagal and Antonio Banderas, who thought that they were caught in a fire, punched him. Sheikh Sayyed Salman, Egypt’s Al-Azhar University Alumni Union member, issued a fatwa against his prank show “Ramez Sub Zero,” saying it was not permissible to scare people.

In May, Galal made headlines once more, this time with allegations of sexual harassment toward actress Yasmine Sabri that could have lost him his show, given the current global reactions to sexual harassment.

This season's first episode of "Ramez Sub Zero” aired on MBC Egypt May 17, the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. His celebrity guests were flown to Moscow to allegedly attend a pre-World Cup event, but end up meeting tigers and bears in a snowboarding area.

Galal’s scary pranks were laughed off, but not his treatment of Sabri. In the episode, he spoke of the young actress as "hot" and "curvy" and touched her lips and body.