The 34-year-old singer will be joining thirteen other stars as they take on their biggest challenge yet
The singer will be joining thirteen other celebrities(Image: PA)Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins has returned for its seventh season, with fourteen new faces ready to tackle some of the most gruelling challenges someone can face.
The Channel 4 show will welcome fourteen celebrities as they’re tasked with both physical and mental challenges that will push them to limits they’re yet to know exist.
Airing across eight one-hour episodes, this seventh series can be streamed or watched live every Sunday and Monday from 9pm on Channel 4, starting on August 3.
Georgia Harrison and Lani Daniels won the 2024 season of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. They were the only two contestants to pass the final selection test in the gruelling competition.
An elite team of ex-Special Forces soldiers – Chief Instructor Billy Billingham and his team of Directing Staff (DS) – Foxy (Jason Fox), Rudy Reyes and Chris Oliver – will be taking the new recruits to Wales, the home of the first phase of SAS Selection, where they will be stripped of their home comforts, families, agents and social media.
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins has returned for its seventh series(Image: Channel 4)Among those participating in this year’s series, Lucy Spraggan wants to push herself to the extreme. The 34-year-old star first found fame on The X Factor back in 2012.
She was the first contestant in the show’s history to score a Top 40 single and album before the live shows aired, with her independently released album Top Room at the Zoo.
Lucy was the fifth contestant to leave the show, and it was later revealed that she was assaulted by a porter at a hotel during her stint.
In her 2023 memoir, Process: Finding My Way Through, Lucy told the story of her night out for Rylan Clark’s birthday and was escorted back to the hotel by a member of the production team when a hotel porter offered to take her to her room.
She told the Guardian: “I woke up the next day with this sense of sheer dread. I don’t think I’ve ever felt that level of confusion since. I knew that I’d been raped, but I could not process that. So I put my clothes on and went into autopilot.”
After taking treatment following the attack to prevent possible HIV infection, she became too ill from its side-effects to continue the X Factor. The perpetrator admitted the offence and was jailed for ten years.
Lucy Spraggan and Simon Cowell have formed a close friendship(Image: ITV)While Lucy and music mogul Simon Cowell never met while she was on the show, Simon reached out to her after she spoke about the assault.
Since then, the pair have formed a “special bond” that even saw Simon walk Lucy down the aisle on her wedding day in 2024. She married her wedding photographer girlfriend Emilia Smith at Saltmarshe Hall, a country house near Howden in East Yorkshire.
Reflecting on her special day, Lucy shared: “Simon and I were standing outside the door and my song started playing. I was already crying, and Simon definitely had a tear in his eye. I was linking arms with him but then I realised I was holding on to his arm.
“He kept saying, ‘You’re OK, you’re all right’. Then when Emilia walked in with her dad I just sobbed.”
Simon has also spoken about Lucy’s wedding day, as he admitted: “I was very honoured to be asked to walk Lucy down the aisle. I considered it a very big deal. As soon as she asked me, I said yes. On the day I was actually quite nervous because I’ve never been asked before. And then very proud and happy and emotional.”
He also shared that they “felt like family and share a very special bond”.
Lucy was an X Factor contestant in 2012(Image: ITV)In 2020, Lucy made the decision to go sober which she has since admitted changed the way people perceived her. She added: “I lost the weight because I stopped drinking, which led to a load of lifestyle changes.
“I started running a lot because I was trying to get high elsewhere, because I didn’t have drugs or alcohol anymore, so it kind of happened by accident.”
Lucy released her seventh studio album, Balance, in 2023 and is currently on tour across the UK. She’ll be performing at Manchester Academy on November 21st.
Speaking about her time on Celebrity SAS, Lucy said: “I hope I have the mental grit to get to the end of the course. I have been through quite a lot in my life, and I’ve done a lot of work to navigate what that left behind, and I really hope that I can apply it to the course, and make it all the way to the end.
“I’ve always wanted to do this course, and what I love about this course is the sheer pressure it puts on a human being, that you will just not get anywhere else in life. And I’ve had pressure, I’ve had so many forms of pressure, nothing like this, so I really just genuinely want to see how far my brain can go.”
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