Channel 4 series Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins is returning to TV screens in early September, and the 2022 line-up of 14 contestants has finally been revealed.
Love Island winner Amber Gill, former EastEnders actress Maisie Smith, and Strictly Come Dancing’s AJ Pritchard are among the names competing this year.
AJ’s brother Curtis has also signed up for the new series, as well as footballer Ashley Cain and former Olympic sprinter Dwayne Chambers.
Cain, whose eight-month-old daughter Azaylia die due to leukaemia in April 2021, said that his experience inspired his application to the show.
‘Losing my daughter was the most difficult experience of my life. I think to combat trauma you need to step outside your comfort zone and see who you really are,’ he said.
Smith, 21, who was a runner-up on Strictly Come Dancing in 2020, said that shooting Celebrity SAS was ‘the best experience’ of her life.
The upcoming series is set to be the longest in the show’s history, with a total of seven hour-long episodes planned to be shown.
TV presenter and model Ferne McCann, Brookside actress Jennifer Ellison, and late footballer George Best’s son Calum have also been added to the line-up.
Olympic gold medallist Jade Jones, boxer Shannon Courtenay, and Paralympic high jumper Johnathan Broom-Edwards will join the list of competing stars.
Completing the line-up are Towie star Pete Wicks, and former Olympic athlete Fatima Whitbread, who made her name in the javelin events.
Celebrity SAS was first broadcast in the spring of 2019, with former Chelsea and Manchester City footballer Wayne Bridge emerging victorious.
Paralympic athlete Lauren Steadman and DJ Locksmith of dance group Rudimental both took the crown on the show in 2020.
And last year there were three winners: X Factor winner Alexandra Burke, Paralympic athlete Aled Davies, and TV personality Wes Nelson.
The show made headlines last year when former Premier League footballer Kieron Dyer withdrew from the competition due to a collapsed lung.
It was then discovered that Dyer, 43, had been suffering from the liver condition primary sclerosing cholangitis and would need to undergo a transplant.
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