{"id":1948678,"date":"2025-08-08T06:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T06:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1948678"},"modified":"2025-08-08T06:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T06:05:32","slug":"the-wilds-of-wales-push-celebrities-to-the-limit-in-celebrity-sas-who-dares-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-wilds-of-wales-push-celebrities-to-the-limit-in-celebrity-sas-who-dares-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"The wilds of Wales push celebrities to the limit in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n                            <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nation.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Celebrity-SAS_-Who-Dares-Wins-S7-Generic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-252512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nation.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Celebrity-SAS_-Who-Dares-Wins-S7-Generic.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/nation.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Celebrity-SAS_-Who-Dares-Wins-S7-Generic-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nation.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Celebrity-SAS_-Who-Dares-Wins-S7-Generic-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/>Pictured: Group shot of all recruits lined up on beach<\/p>\n<p>Celebrities from the world of music, entertainment and sport are being called upon to take part in the most gruelling phase of Special Forces selection in the wilds of Wales \u2013 the home of the SAS.<\/p>\n<p>This squad of fourteen celebrities will step up to the challenge in the latest series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. 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 this evening (August 3)<\/p>\n<p>Taking part in this year\u2019s condensed version of the toughest environments faced by Special Forces operatives are; Ex-Footballer and Broadcaster, Adebayo \u201cThe Beast\u201d Akinfenwa (43); Ex-Premier League Footballer, Troy Deeney (35); Professional Boxer, Conor Benn (27); TV Personalities, Louie Spence (55) and Tasha Ghouri (25); The Traitors Winner, Harry Clark (23); Singer and Actress, Hannah Spearritt (43); TV Personality and Yoga Teacher, Rebecca Loos (46); TV Personality and Influencer, Chloe Burrows (28), Drag Artist and DJ, Bimini (31); one of the \u201cPeru Two,\u201d Michaella McCollum (30); Musicians, Lady Leshurr (36) and Lucy Spraggan (32); and Love Islander and Reality TV Star, Adam Collard (28).<\/p>\n<div class=\"mid-content \"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/nation-cymru-donations\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nation.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NC-banner.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The elite team of ex-Special Forces soldiers \u2013 Chief Instructor Billy Billingham and his team of Directing Staff (DS) \u2013 Foxy (Jason Fox), Rudy Reyes and Chris Oliver \u2013 are taking these famous faces to Wales \u2013 the home of the first phase of SAS Selection, where they will be stripped of their home comforts, families, agents and social media. Together the DS will push the celebrity recruits even further and teach them the key skills to survive. There will be no room for mistakes as these celebrity recruits face the hardest course yet, in the most gruelling stages of SAS selection.<\/p>\n<p>The fourteen famous faces will abandon their glamorous and luxurious lifestyles to immerse themselves in the punishing Special Forces training environment. This year\u2019s course will be physically demanding and psychologically gruelling; all but a few who take part will fail but who will make it to the end and eventually pass?<\/p>\n<p>There will be no special treatment for any of the celebrities, as they confront surprising truths about themselves, to discover their true selves. Not everyone will have what it takes to make it to the end of this course. The DS don\u2019t care how famous the recruits are, how many social media followers they have or what they have done before this. As soon as they enter the selection process, their celebrity status and luxuries are stripped away.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brand New Series | Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins | Coming Soon to Channel 4\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XUMUo8OKgS0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Reflecting on their upcoming Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins experience, the celebrity recruits commented:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adebayo \u201cThe Beast\u201d Akinfenwa:<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019ve asked myself time and time again \u2013 am I built for the Special Forces? One of the reasons why I\u2019m doing this is to find out. I would like to think that, put me in most situations, most environments, I\u2019ll be able to put my best foot forward, get out of my comfort zone, hit my responsibilities and do what I need to do! I think that\u2019s what I want to get out of taking part on this course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Troy Deeney:<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019m at a crossroads in my life, so I\u2019m hoping the course can highlight the good and bad in me and hopefully we\u2019ll see at the end, that the good outweighs the bad. I\u2019m sure the DS will get me irritated very quickly but they will also know how to nurture and to reshape and probably help me along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conor Benn:<\/strong> \u201cAlthough boxing is hard, I feel like this is going to be a completely different challenge and I always want to challenge myself. I just want to see and experience the toughness and the grittiness you need to pass this course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louie Spence:<\/strong> \u201cThis course I hope can walk away feeling I\u2019ve actually really achieved something here, that I\u2019ve really pushed myself to the edge of my boundaries and put myself in a position which is beyond something I could have even imagined a year ago. This is a course that is really going to challenge me. This is different to anything I\u2019ve ever been part of before. There\u2019s no fluff, there\u2019s no glitter, there\u2019s no getting myself out of a situation with a quick bit of wit. It\u2019s really refreshing for me to do something like this\u2026and, hopefully come out a much better person, both physically and mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tasha Ghouri:<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019m very excited to actually take on the course and just go for it, push myself and really challenge myself. But I also want to show people that having a disability makes you no less able \u2013 we can also push ourselves, and do crazy challenges if we put our mind to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really want to be able to actually walk away from the course feeling like I\u2019ve accomplished what I wanted to do and I want to look back and think, wow, I did that, I\u2019m proud of myself. I\u2019ll be doing this for the people who have doubted me. I want prove to them that they can\u2019t bring me down. I can fight my way to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harry Clark:<\/strong> \u201cGrowing up, I\u2019d watch people close to me be in the SAS, which always inspired me. This show was a different experience to what I had imagined but I always love a challenge and it proves you\u2019re always learning new things about yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hannah Spearritt:<\/strong> \u201cI hope to take out of this experience, strength. I want to feel stronger again, mentally and physically, because there\u2019s always improvement there. There are always dips that happen along the way with motherhood or whatever but I think when you just experience different stuff, it changes you. I have no idea what to expect, but I do know it will be an experience and it\u2019s something that I will have for life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever the experience goes, I am going to learn about myself. Maybe I\u2019ll find out I am a bit of a mess or I might find out that I\u2019m stronger than I think I am\u2026it\u2019s finding out things about yourself that you would never, ever find out. We live in this world where it\u2019s so easy to live in our comfort zone, so this is an opportunity to get outside of that and\u2026for me anyway, growth and expansion is one of the most important things, and that is something that hopefully I can pass on to my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brand New Series | Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins | Coming Soon to Channel 4\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cKHyi6gaZCM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Rebecca Loos:<\/strong> \u201cI honestly don\u2019t know whether I am mentally strong enough but one of the reasons I want to do this course is because I want to find out whether I\u2019m able to stick it through mentally. I think it\u2019s going to be really, really tough. This is by far the toughest thing I\u2019ve ever done. But I want to do this course because it\u2019s a once in a lifetime opportunity to do an SAS training course. It\u2019s going to be really interesting to see how far I can go and how strong I\u2019m able to keep myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bimini:<\/strong> \u201cI want to do this just to prove to myself that I\u2019m capable of anything I put my mind to. I want to prove to myself that I can do it. No glam, no red carpets, no magazine covers. This is literally just going to be me to my core and I am excited about it but I don\u2019t think the course is ready for Bimini.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018People in the UK love to debate gender like it\u2019s a concept, not a lived experience. It gets reduced to headlines and toilet talk. I\u2019m doing this to remind them that behind every opinion is a human being. The course, the SAS and the Army have got a very masculine stereotype and I\u2019ve got both elements of masculine and feminine and that\u2019s my superpower. Vulnerable, raw, and stronger than ever. This bleached rat tail is gonna f**k it up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michaella McCollum:<\/strong> \u201cThe level of resilience I learned from being in prison in Peru and knowing how important that mindset is, will definitely help get me through the course, so I\u2019m going to need to use my mental strength to help me along the way. In Peru, I was completely stripped back to the rawest version of myself\u2026and I know in this course, it will have a similar effect. I will get to see the real me again and I want to challenge myself to see how capable I am. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m physically fit enough to complete the course but I have good mental strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lucy Spraggan:<\/strong> \u201cI 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\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve 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\u2019ve had pressure, I\u2019ve had so many forms of pressure, nothing like this, so I really just genuinely want to see how far my brain can go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nation.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/72dpi_76768_S7_Ep8_Celebrity-SAS_-Who-Dares-Wins-S7-Ep8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-252511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nation.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/72dpi_76768_S7_Ep8_Celebrity-SAS_-Who-Dares-Wins-S7-Ep8.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/nation.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/72dpi_76768_S7_Ep8_Celebrity-SAS_-Who-Dares-Wins-S7-Ep8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nation.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/72dpi_76768_S7_Ep8_Celebrity-SAS_-Who-Dares-Wins-S7-Ep8-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/>Pictured: DS Chris, DS Foxy, DS Billy and DS Rudy standing group shot on beach after end of course<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam Collard:<\/strong> \u201cHopefully during the course, the DS will peel back a few layers because I\u2019m stubborn as hell. And maybe I need to be broken down to then go and sort some stuff out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m doing it for the little boy who hated himself and couldn\u2019t do anything and was the last to get picked in everything. And from an emotional point of view, I\u2019m hoping that this spits out a better person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love a challenge. And I really think this course is exactly what I want to really tap into my fitness, the mental strength, the resilience, and see if I\u2019ve got the grit to finish and go all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lady Leshurr:<\/strong> \u201cI think this course is not only going to make me become the best version of myself, but it\u2019s going to make me the strongest I\u2019ve ever been. It\u2019s going to make me realise so much about myself that I\u2019ve kept in. It\u2019s going to push, motivate and inspire me. It\u2019s really going to make or break me. But regardless, it\u2019s going to teach me a lesson about myself that I can definitely work on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoing this course is going to make me regain my strength, my understanding, who I am as a person and just unpack all the trauma that is on my chest\u2026I\u2019m hoping to leave this course feeling empowered, feeling the strongest I\u2019ve ever felt, a beast. I want to walk into the gym the next day, like I own this place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chloe Burrows:<\/strong> \u201cOn SAS: Who Dares Wins, everything is completely stripped back. You have absolutely nothing. And I want the course to kind of remind me of that, because I\u2019ve got a bit lost in myself and the industry. I want to feel a little bit grounded. I want to get a sense of it. I want to push myself, and I want to get a sense of achievement. I want to feel proud of myself for whatever I put into it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the course is going to give me a bit of confidence. If I even achieve half of the course, then I can walk out and be like, yeah, guess what? I did that on my own. No makeup, no hot shower. I\u2019m very capable\u2026I would love to come out and just feel really pleased with myself and really confident in myself. I want to feel like I\u2019ve tried my absolute hardest and that I had nothing left in the tank\u2026I don\u2019t want to leave half-heartedly. If I leave, it\u2019s because I physically cannot do anymore, which is fair, but I just want to know that I\u2019ve tried my hardest.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"lower-mid-content-banner \"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.llyfrgell.cymru\/ymweld\/pethau-iw-\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nation.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/4776_NLW_No-Welsh-Art-Digital-Advert_Mar-2025_Land_V2_CY-1-1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>No other test asks as much or means as much to the few who make it through and no allowances or exceptions will be made for this group of celebrities.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on this year\u2019s group of celebrity recruits, Chief Instructor, Billy said: \u201cThis course is not an attendance course, the bar is set high and will not waiver. Every recruit is a volunteer who chose to step into our arena. Although many will start, very few will finish and even less will pass. This is not for the weak minded or faint hearted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DS Foxy said: \u201cThe world is now a complex and dangerous place with threats coming from all angles. Because of that, we as a country need to be ready. We want to show these celebrity recruits what it takes to prepare for war, but do they have what it takes, far away from their privileged lives?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DS Rudy commented: \u201cSAS: Who Dares Wins is brutal, revealing and a testament to human perseverance. Punishing elements, relentless pace, and standards that make war fighters proud to give these recruits a hard reset to find their true self. And in that truth, an insight into the human experience for us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DS Chris added: \u201cThis isn\u2019t just about physical strength; it\u2019s about mental resilience too. The recruits will be pushed to their limits, both individually and as a unit. Trust in each other will be our greatest asset. When the waves are high and the wind is howling, they will need to rely on the training and instincts if they are going to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first episode of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins airs tonight at 9pm on Channel 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"lower-article-donate\">\n<hr style=\"height: 1px\"\/>\n<h2>Support our Nation today<\/h2>\n<p>For the <strong>price of a cup of coffee<\/strong> a month you can help us create an<br \/>\n                                    independent, not-for-profit, national news service for the people of Wales, <strong>by<br \/>\n                                        the people of Wales.<\/strong>\n                                <\/p>\n<p>                                <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/embed\/nation-cymru-donations\" name=\"donorbox\" allowpaymentrequest=\"allowpaymentrequest\" seamless=\"seamless\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"900px\" width=\"100%\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 250px; max-height:none!important\"><\/iframe>\n                            <\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nation.cymru \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured: Group shot of all recruits lined up on beach Celebrities from the world of music, entertainment and sport are being called upon to take part in the most gruelling phase of Special Forces selection in the wilds of Wales \u2013 the home of the SAS. 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