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The former footballer enjoyed stints at Doncaster Rovers, Swansea City and AFC Wimbledon, among others.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to think that, put me in most situations, most environments, I’ll be able to put my best foot forward, get out of my comfort zone, hit my responsibilities and do what I need to do!\u201d Akinfenwa said. \u201cI think that’s what I want to get out of taking part on this course.\u201d<\/p>\n
The striker is best known for playing for Watford from 2010-21. However, since parting ways with Forest Green Rovers in 2024, he has been without a club.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m at a crossroads in my life,\u201d Deeney said, \u201cso I’m hoping the course can highlight the good and bad in me and hopefully we’ll see at the end, that the good outweighs the bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boxing fans will be no stranger to Benn, who this year suffered his first ever loss to Chris Eubank Jr. Next to 23 wins, that isn\u2019t so bad.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough boxing is hard, I feel like this is going to be a completely different challenge and I always want to challenge myself,\u201d he said. \u201cI just want to see and experience the toughness and the grittiness you need to pass this course.\u201d<\/p>\n
This reality TV star is best known for winning series two of The Traitors. Unfortunately for him, there\u2019ll be no room for backstabbing in the tight-knit world of the Special Forces.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrowing up, I’d watch people close to me be in the SAS, which always inspired me,\u201d he said. \u201cThis show was a different experience to what I had imagined but I always love a challenge and it proves you’re always learning new things about yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former model is perhaps best known for claiming in 2004 that she had an affair with David Beckham. You\u2019ve also seen her on noughties reality shows like The Farm\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0the\u00a0celebrity, pre-2015-reboot version of Love Island.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is by far the toughest thing I’ve ever done,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I want to do this course because it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to do an SAS training course. It’s going to be really interesting to see how far I can go and how strong I’m able to keep myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve seen the DJ and drag queen on series two of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race UK. Will they be sashaying away from Celebrity SAS, or are they here to stay, Shantay?<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople 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,\u201d they said. \u201cThis bleached rat tail is gonna f**k it up!\u201d<\/p>\n
McCollum was one of the \u2018Peru Two\u2019, a pair of young women arrested in 2013 on suspicion of international drug smuggling.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe level of resilience I learned from being in prison in Peru,\u201d she said, \u201cand knowing how important that mindset is, will definitely help get me through the course, so I’m going to need to use my mental strength to help me along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t the rapper and musician\u2019s first reality rodeo. She\u2019s also appeared on Dancing on Ice and The Celebrity Circle.<\/p>\n
\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,\u201d she explained. \u201cI’m hoping to leave this course feeling empowered.\u201d<\/p>\n
The singer-songwriter has no illusions about the challenge ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat 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,\u201d Spraggan said. \u201cAnd 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
Last but by no means least is the Love Island and Celebs Go Dating participant.<\/p>\n
\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,\u201d Collard said. \u201cAnd from an emotional point of view, I’m hoping that this spits out a better person.\u201d<\/p>\n
TV personality Louie Spence and musician Hannah Spearritt bid the rest of their trainees goodbye in episode one. In episode two, Love Island contestants Chloe Burrows and Tasha Ghouri withdrew.<\/p>\n
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins airs on Channel 4 on Sundays and Mondays at 9.00pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source rts.org.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adebayo \u201cThe Beast\u201d Akinfenwa The former footballer enjoyed stints at Doncaster Rovers, Swansea City and AFC Wimbledon, among others. \u201cI would like to think that, put me in most situations, most environments, I’ll be able to put my best foot forward, get out of my comfort zone, hit my responsibilities and do what I need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1953042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Meet-the-contestants-of-Celebrity-SAS-Who-Dares-Wins.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}