Celebrity SAS | What to Watch

SAS: WHO DARES WINS: SUTC CELEBRITY VERSION [SERIES 1] shows L-R Jason Fox, Ant Middleton, Olly Ollerton and Mark Billingham

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A dozen famous faces have signed up for this series, a fundraising version of the show in which ex-Special Forces personnel put civvies through hellish, SAS-style training

A dozen famous faces have signed up for this series, a fundraising version of the show in which ex-Special Forces personnel (Jason Fox, Ant Middleton, Olly Ollerton and Mark Billingham, above) put civvies through hellish, SAS-style training.

Loose Women’s Andrea McLean, former Tory MP Louise Mensch and Made in Chelsea’s Sam Thompson all stand out in this first episode.

SAS: WHO DARES WINS: SUTC CELEBRITY VERSION [SERIES 1] — Loose Women's Andrea McClean

The first task is to fall backwards out of a helicopter…

Later in the series catch former premier league and England footballer Wayne Bridge, TV presenter AJ Odudu and actor Jeremy Irvine, plus life coach Jeff Brazier and English rugby union and rugby sevens player Heather Fisher.

TV Times rating: ****

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