CELEBRITY SAS: WHO DARES WINS SERIES 4 PRESS PACK

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31 August 2022

TX: Sundays at 9pm from 4 September on Channel 4

7 episodes: 1 x 75 minute episode + 6 x 1 hour episodes

Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins is back on Channel 4 on Sunday 4 September at 9pm, with more celebrity recruits than ever before, in the longest series yet.

The series opens with a feature length 75-minute episode, and is followed by six sixty-minute episodes. Across the seven programmes, fourteen new celebrity recruits are faced with the most brutal Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins selection course yet run by the elite team of ex-special forces operators from the UK and USA - Chief Instructor, Rudy Reyes and his team of Directing Staff (DS), Foxy (Jason Fox), Billy (Mark Billingham) and Remi Adeleke..

With their glamorous showbiz lifestyles a distant memory, the celebrities to be put through a series of gruelling tasks and interrogations in the blistering heat of the Jordanian desert are actresses, Maisie Smith (21) and Jennifer Ellison (39); TV Personality and Entrepreneur, Calum Best (41); Reality TV Stars, Pete Wicks (33) and Ferne McCann (32); Javelin Olympic Gold Medallist, Fatima Whitbread MBE (61); Ex-Footballer, Philanthropist, Ashley Cain (31); Influencer and TV Personality, Amber Gill (25); Professional Dancer, AJ Pritchard (27); Professional Dancer and TV Personality, Curtis Pritchard (26); Olympic Sprinter, Dwain Chambers (44); Taekwondo Olympic Gold Medallist, Jade Jones OBE (29), Professional Boxer, Shannon Courtenay (29) and Paralympic High Jumper, Jonathan Broom-Edwards MBE (34).

There will be no special treatment for the celebrities. Instead, each celebrity recruit will be tested to their physical and psychological limits, 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 unique version of SAS selection in one of the harshest training environments on the planet.

The DS don’t 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.

No allowances or exceptions will be made by the DS for this group of celebrities:

Chief Instructor, Rudy said: “SAS is renowned for having the highest standards. We don’t care where they come from or what their net worth is. We demand full throttle excellence no matter celebrity, title or fame.”

Foxy added: “I know you always hear this but this is the hardest hit bunch of celebs to date! Fact. In this year’s helping of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, you get plenty of strength, weakness, dark times, easily some of the funniest comments/moments and huge, huge surprises! I’ll leave to you to decide who delivers on which front. Celebrities, you know who you are! They who dare ultimately stand there deservedly!”

Billy continued: “These celebrities will learn quickly that image and egos count for nothing. Many will try, but few will be chosen!!!”

Remi concluded: “They definitely paid the man…IN FULL. There was no holding back on our part, just because they were celebrities.”

Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins is a Minnow Films production for Channel 4. The Executive Producers are Alicia Kerr, Benjamin Leigh, Sebastian Grant and Jo Hughes, the Series Producer is Charlotte Gillies and Channel 4’s Commissioning Editor for Science and Adventure is Jonah Weston.

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Gail Davidson gail@gaildavidsonpr.co.uk

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31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

INTERVIEWS WITH THE CELEBRITY SAS: WHO DARES WINS SERIES 4 RECRUITS JENNIFER ELLISON – RECRUIT NUMBER 1

Age: 39 From: Liverpool Occupation: Actress Having had her confidence knocked by a career hiatus and a troubled relationship, Jennifer wants to test herself on the Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins course to see if she still has the determination and drive she had when performing. Why did you want to do

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

PETE WICKS – RECRUIT NUMBER 2

Age 33 From: Essex Occupation: Reality TV Star Pete, as a reality tv star, believes the public have a misconception of him. Beneath the jokey exterior, he struggles with confidence, finding it hard to see his value and find his purpose. He confesses he finds it challenging to talk about his emotions

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

CALUM BEST – RECRUIT NUMBER 3

Age: 41 From: London Occupation: TV Personality & Entrepreneur Since losing his father to alcohol addiction sixteen years ago, Calum changed his life around, focusing on wellness and mindfulness. With his own history of alcohol and drug dependency, he is keen to use the Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

FERNE MCCANN – RECRUIT NUMBER 4

Age 32 From: Essex Occupation: Reality TV Star Bringing up her four-year-old daughter, Sunday on her own, Ferne has dealt with insecurity, relationship dramas and trust issues. Through the Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins course, she would like to find and demonstrate the mental strength she’s had to

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

FATIMA WHITBREAD MBE – RECRUIT NUMBER 5

Age: 61 From: Essex Occupation: Javelin Olympic Gold Medallist The oldest ever Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins recruit, Fatima, wants to prove she still has the physical fitness and mental stamina to participate and succeed on the course. Growing up in a children's home after being abandoned in a flat

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

JONATHAN BROOM-EDWARDS MBE – RECRUIT NUMBER 6

Age: 34 From: Loughborough Occupation: Paralympic High Jumper Being a parasport athlete, Jonathan is always looking for new challenges in his career and prove himself to be as capable as any other Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins recruit. He has been training for the course by listening to screaming

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

AMBER GILL – RECRUIT NUMBER 7

Age: 25 From: Newcastle Occupation: TV Personality & Influencer Amber wants to shift the public’s preconceptions of an influencer. Believing people consider her superficial, she wants to demonstrate her real values through the Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins course. Regularly finding herself the

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

AJ PRITCHARD – RECRUIT NUMBER 8

Age: 27 From: Stoke on Trent Occupation: Professional Dancer Disciplined from his career as a dancer, AJ is used to pushing his body to its physical limits and has competed since he was a teenager. His confidence, however, was recently knocked by a freak accident he caused, which injured his partner

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

CURTIS PRITCHARD – RECRUIT NUMBER 9

Age: 26 From: Stoke on Trent Occupation: Professional dancer and TV Personality Having lost the competitive edge his older brother AJ has during his teenage years and sometimes putting others ahead of his own ambitions, Curtis wants to use this opportunity to show he is also capable of pushing

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

JADE JONES OBE – RECRUIT NUMBER 10

Age: 29 From: Wales Occupation: Taekwondo Olympic Gold Medallist A double Olympic gold Taekwondo champion, Jade had a disappointing result in the Tokyo Olympics, being knocked out in the first round. She would like to use the Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins course to show herself she still has the

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

SHANNON COURTENAY – RECRUIT NUMBER 11

Age: 29 From: Hertfordshire Occupation: Professional Boxer Before discovering Boxing, Shannon was badly behaved growing up, falling in with the wrong crowd, drinking and smoking. She has struggled with authority in the past and wants to make sure she can control the aggression that is vital to her

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

MAISIE SMITH – RECRUIT NUMBER 12

Age: 21 From: Essex Occupation: Actress The youngest recruit, 21-year-old Maisie has spent her life in the public eye and finds it a challenge to separate herself from her Eastenders character. She wants to find her own voice on the Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins course and gain some confidence in

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

DWAIN CHAMBERS – RECRUIT NUMBER 13

Age 44 From: London Occupation: Olympic Sprinter Dwain was caught using performance enhancing drugs at the peak of his sprinting career, resulting in a two year ban on competing and huge reputational damage. He wants to prove the mistake was unrepresentative of him and that he still has what it

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

ASHLEY CAIN – RECRUIT NUMBER 14

Age:31 From: Coventry Profession: Ex-Footballer, Philanthropist Ashley’s daughter Azaylia died of Leukaemia aged eight months in April 2021. Ashley is dedicating his participation on the Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins course to her, wanting to make her a proud daughter and to show some of the