{"id":2048233,"date":"2025-09-25T04:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2048233"},"modified":"2025-09-25T04:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:24:14","slug":"special-forces-shawn-johnson-andrew-east-on-how-they-prepared-for-the-uncomfortable-experience-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/special-forces-shawn-johnson-andrew-east-on-how-they-prepared-for-the-uncomfortable-experience-more\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Special Forces\u2019: Shawn Johnson & Andrew East on How They Prepared for the \u2018Uncomfortable\u2019 Experience & More"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shawn Johnson<\/a> and Andrew East<\/a> may be former professional athletes, but Special Forces: World\u2019s Toughest Test<\/a> was far from a cake walk for the couple. \u201cWe\u2019re very used to, I don\u2019t want to say physical pain, but coming from elite athletics, we know how to deal with that,\u201d Johnson<\/a> tells TV Insider. \u201cIt\u2019s an expectation. The mental side was way different than anything I think Andrew or I had ever dealt with before, so that was new.\u201d They both agree that the mental portion of the show was much harder than the physical portion for them, even though they attempted to train for the grueling physical challenges before filming.<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shawn Johnson and Andrew East may be former professional athletes, but Special Forces: World\u2019s Toughest Test was far from a cake walk for the couple. \u201cWe\u2019re very used to, I don\u2019t want to say physical pain, but coming from elite athletics, we know how to deal with that,\u201d Johnson tells TV Insider. \u201cIt\u2019s an expectation. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2048234,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2048233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Special-Forces-Shawn-Johnson-Andrew-East-on-How-They.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048233","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=2048233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2048234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}