This weekend, the recruits get a impolite awakening with some classes in staying calm. Elsewhere, they are going to be tackling an emergency drill in a sinking boat earlier than going head-to-head in fight with their fellow celebs.
So, who’s participating this 12 months? Learn on to be taught extra concerning the Celeb SAS: Who Dares Wins 2025 line-up.
Celeb SAS: Who Dares Wins 2025 line-up
- Adebayo Akinfenwa
- Troy Deeney
- Conor Benn
- Louie Spence
- Tasha Ghouri
- Hannah Spearritt
- Harry Clark
- Rebecca Loos
- Chloe Burrows
- Bimini
- Michaella McCollum
- Woman Leshurr
- Lucy Spraggan
- Adam Collard
Scroll down to search out out extra about this 12 months’s contestants.
Adebayo Akinfenwa
Age: 43
Job: Former skilled footballer
Instagram: @akinfenwa
Adebayo Akinfenwa is a former skilled footballer who, throughout his profession, performed for the likes of Millwall, Northampton City and Wycombe Wanderers and amassed greater than 200 targets.
Nicknamed ‘The Beast’, Akinfenwa was formally ranked as “the strongest footballer on the earth”, and is headed into Who Dares Wins able to strive one thing new.
When he retired in 2022, the footballer instructed himself he “needed to strive as many new, various things as doable”, not initially pondering that Celeb SAS could be offered to him.
“So when it got here up, I knew it was a once-in-a-lifetime expertise,” he mentioned.
Troy Deeney
Age: 35
Job: Former skilled footballer
Instagram: @t_deeney
Troy Deeney is greatest identified for his profession in soccer, notably as a striker for Watford FC, the place he performed for 11 years and have become the membership’s all-time high scorer within the Premier League.
After retiring, Troy admittedly felt “slightly bit misplaced”, and when it got here to Celeb SAS, it was a present he had all the time “appreciated”, which led him to ponder whether or not he may do it too.
Conor Benn
Age: 28
Job: Skilled boxer
Instagram: @conorbennofficial
Conor Benn is knowledgeable boxer who has racked up 23 wins – 14 by knockout – and not using a single defeat, which has seen him nicknamed ‘The Destroyer’.
Now on Celeb SAS, he is able to “reclaim a way of id, goal, and resilience” and would not plan on preventing for a legacy, however relatively himself.
Louie Spence
Age: 56
Job: TV persona
Instagram: @louiespence
Greatest identified for TV sequence Pineapple Dance Studios, Louie Spence has an illustrious profession throughout theatre, music and tv.
Requested why he needed to tackle the problem of Celeb SAS, Louie mentioned: “I used to be feeling actually mentally sturdy, and I believed it might be an amazing problem. So actually, it was only a factor to problem myself mentally. I’ve watched the present earlier than, I’ve dipped out and in, and like most individuals, once I’ve watched it, you suppose you are able to do it. However it’s totally different if you get there!”
Tasha Ghouri
Age: 25
Job: TV persona
Instagram: @tashaghouri
Tasha Ghouri rose to fame in 2022 after participating in Love Island and has gone on to make use of her platform to boost consciousness about deafness and has championed incapacity inclusion and illustration.
Simply final 12 months, Tasha took half in Strictly Come Dancing, and was a finalist alongside returning professional Aljaž Škorjanec.
Hannah Spearritt
Age: 43
Job: Singer and actress
Instagram: @hannahspearritt
Hannah Spearritt is an authentic member of pop group S Membership 7 who, alongside her singing profession, has dabbled within the performing world and is well-known for taking part in the position of Abby Maitland in Primeval, Mercedes Christie in Casualty and Kandice Taylor in EastEnders.
Extra not too long ago, Hannah has relocated together with her household to Costa Rica during which they’ve bought a jungle residence full with lush land, waterfalls and wildlife.
Harry Clark
Age: 23
Job: TV persona
Instagram: @harryclarky
Harry Clark rose to fame after showing on The Traitors season 2, which he subsequently received, and he’s at present the one Traitor to have received the UK sequence.
After profitable the present, Harry’s life modified in a single day as he sky-rocketed to fame, and he has since appeared on BBC Two’s Pilgrimage sequence.
“I feel it was simply one in all this stuff the place truly, for me, it was attempting to do one thing that helped me discover myself,” Harry mentioned of participating on Celeb SAS.
Rebecca Loos
Age: 46
Job: Yoga instructor
Instagram: @rebeccaloosofficial
Rebecca Loos is a yoga instructor who first rose to prominence after allegations of an affair with footballer David Beckham – one thing that has by no means been verified and has been dismissed as “ludicrous” by Beckham himself.
However since then, Loos has gone on to work in tv and modelling, and these days splits her time between Hemsedal and Oslo as a yoga instructor and A&E medical assistant.
Chloe Burrows
Age: 29
Job: TV persona
Instagram: @chloeburrows
One other former Love Islander participating this 12 months is Chloe Burrows, who has carved out a profitable profession in podcasting, influencing and TV.
“I simply needed to check myself,” Chloe mentioned of her hopes for the sequence. “I’ve all the time liked aggressive issues like sports activities. I think about myself, usually, fairly a mentally sturdy particular person, so I truly simply needed to see how far I may go.
“I actually simply needed to check myself. I really feel like if you go on Love Island, individuals form of put you in slightly field. So I needed to form of show to everybody that I can do it and say, ‘Take a look at Georgia Harrison. I can do the identical factor!'”
Bimini
Age: 32
Job: Drag artist and DJ
Instagram: @biminibabes
Bimini Bon-Boulash is a drag queen who rose to fame whereas showing on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK in 2020 and has since gone on to make use of their platform throughout trend, music and activism.
For Bimini, drag is greater than a efficiency, with it being a way of reclaiming confidence and pleasure.
“I needed a problem, and I believed, when the chance got here, what number of instances am I going to get requested to do this?” Bimini mentioned.
“I prefer to show to myself what I can do mentally in my very own physique or my very own head. I really like the concept of what individuals suppose I may do. I turned up in a pink tracksuit and I feel even the DS underestimated me. I really like stunning individuals.”
Michaella McCollum
Age: 31
Job: Creator
Instagram: @michaella_mccollum
Michaella McCollum could also be identified to some viewers as one half of the Peru Two, after she was arrested and imprisoned in Peru for making an attempt to smuggle £1.5 million value of cocaine in 2013.
She was initially sentenced to 6 years and eight months in jail, however was granted early launch in 2016 after serving two years and three months.
Michaella has since rebuilt her life and graduated with a level in Worldwide Enterprise Administration from Ulster College in 2023.
She was initially hesitant to participate in Celeb SAS at first, however was eager to get out of her consolation zone and “do the issues that scare [her]”.
Woman Leshurr
Age: 36
Job: Musician
Instagram: @imladyleshurr
Woman Leshurr is an award-winning rapper and singer whose profession has seen her scoop a number of MOBO Awards, together with Greatest Feminine Act, Greatest Rap/Grime Act and Greatest Solo Feminine.
However her profession has gone past the bounds of music, having taken half on Dancing on Ice in addition to turning into the primary Black British girl to steer an Olay industrial.
For Leshurr, she solely takes half in TV reveals that she is aware of “[she will] get one thing out of”.
She defined: “I used to be in a degree in my life the place I am getting older and I do not wish to get too previous when my joints aren’t working and I can not run too good. So I believed this was the perfect time for me to go on the present and simply develop myself and turn into the perfect model of myself.”
Lucy Spraggan
Age: 32
Job: Musician
Instagram: @lspraggan
Lucy Spraggan is greatest identified for showing on The X Issue, and her audition tune Final Night time instantly went viral. She has since launched seven studio albums and launched a single with Robbie Williams known as Sober.
Requested why she agreed to go on Celeb SAS, Lucy mentioned: “That is one thing genuinely you possibly can return and examine in my journals from two years in the past, the place I wrote about SAS: Who Dares Wins for years. I used to observe it avidly, each the superstar and the civilian model. I used to be obsessed. I really like seeing the extremes human beings can undergo, it’s fairly unimaginable.”
Adam Collard
Age: 28
Job: TV persona
Instagram: @adamcollard
Adam Collard first burst onto screens in 2018 as a bombshell on Love Island, one thing he later returned to in 2022 after turning into the primary Islander from a earlier season to return as a bombshell as soon as extra.
However past his work on tv, Adam is a profitable on-line health coach and entrepreneur, and he owns two gyms in Northumberland and Newcastle.
Requested why he needed to participate on Celeb SAS, Adam mentioned: “I’ve accomplished actuality TV when it comes to relationship reveals, and as somebody who’s within the health business and likes bodily challenges, I’ve taken half in all these type of bodily endeavours.
“So this has been the dream. Funnily sufficient, I all the time mentioned I would not even do the superstar model, I’d have accomplished the civilian model. It was form of a dream for me.
“I will be trustworthy, I’ve watched extra SAS: Who Dares Wins than I’ve Love Island or Celebs Go Relationship, and I have been on each of these. I genuinely am a fan of it. I simply like it.”
Celeb SAS: Who Dares Wins returns on Sunday third August at 9pm on Channel 4.
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