A TRIO of competitors broke down in tears of exhaustion and joy after triumphing in the tense finale of Celebrity SAS Who Dares Wins on Channel 4 tonight.
They were former footballer Troy Deeney, X-Factor star Lucy Spraggan and Michaella McCollum, one of the “Peru Two” who were jailed for drug smuggling.
Troy, Lucy and Michaella with SAS instructors after emotional final[/caption]
The show’s fiery finale[/caption]
They were three of five who made it through to the last stage of the trial and emerged as the winners after Love Islander Adam Collard and drag artist Bimini, both exited the competition.
Talking about his win, Troy said: “It’s the second time I’ve cried since my dad passed away and he’s been dead 13 years now.
“The other time was when I got promoted to the Premier League. That’s it.
“It was a mixture of exhaustion, tiredness, but also a sense of pride.
“I’ve had a few people who I know have been approached about doing SAS WDW and I’m like, absolutely do it, it’ll change your whole life.
“There’s no bad way you can come out of it.
“This exposes the emotional, physical human level of who and what you are and enhances it. It’s been life changing, it really has.
“I’ve stopped drinking, I’m getting therapy for my anger, I just feel different.
“I would describe the Troy that went in as a lost and confused individual.
“The Troy that’s come out now is very clear on what he wants to be and he’s still working daily, actively to get to that version of me.
“I know what I need to do now, how I need to do it, and I’m just going to keep working towards it.”
Lucy said: “It was incredible. I was just like, ‘this is unbelievable’. I was very emotional and they praised me for my attention to detail.
“It’s something that I’ve carried forward with me in my life.
“I’ve had a lot of body image issues and stuff like that throughout my whole life.
“And actually that whole experience, I didn’t think for one second whether I was fat or not.
“And since then I don’t have as much of a desire to prove myself.
“I was overexercising, under eating, doing all that s**t.
“And since then it’s all about being capable and just being hardcore, but if I need to be, not all the time.”
Michaela said: “We did not believe it.
‘WE’RE TRAUMATISED’
“I remember coming out, obviously we’re masked, and I knew Lucy had squeezed my shoulder, and I was like, I hope that’s Lucy.
“And then as soon as we came out and they took off the masks and I seen it was just me Lucy and Troy, I didn’t know it was over.
“And then they started talking about, okay, each individual, this is what you’ve been good at, and this is what you’ve been bad at.
“And then when they said they passed, we just started crying.
“Like me, Lucy, and Troy, we started crying, because we were like, “We’re traumatised.
“What has just happened?” And now they’re like, “Here’s a Milky Bar, let’s go and do photos.”
Troy described the experience as ‘life changing’[/caption]
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THE You Bet! On Tour version – which airs on Saturday on ITV1 at 8pm – is “bigger and better” than the conventional series says host Stephen Mulhern.
He said: “At one point we took over Bournemouth Beach for one challenge.
“That would never fit in a studio, unless we hired Wembley.”
WILD LAV IS NOT FOR DAV
DAVINA McCALL will host a new BBC One dating show which sees singles Stranded on Honeymoon Island minutes after they marry.
Ahead of its launch on September 3, she said: “It is about survival, it is about being stripped of everything.
Davina McCall sees singles Stranded on Honeymoon Island minutes after they marry[/caption]
“I’d be alright with the hair and make-up, but I’d have a whopper problem with the loo situation.
“I’m not good at that. I need privacy. I want to be fancied and there’s a point where you have to draw the line.
“You don’t want to have the poo chat that early!”
There’s a string of twists planned.
Davina added: “You never know where it’s going to go.
“We get a flare out – where somebody wants to leave. And there are partner swaps.”
Presumably after someone had a bad night on the loo.
LEND A HAND
iN the age of AI, you would think directors would look to computer wizardry to cast a disembodied hand for Netflix hit Wednesday.
Instead a Romanian magician plays Thing – the lone hand that hangs around the Addams family.
The man behind the hand is Victor Dorobantu.
He told the Radio Times: “I did a talent show in Romania and they dropped me.
“Then one day, a lady called and asked if I wanted to be a hand in a TV show.
“They’d searched ‘magicians in Romania’, where season one of Wednesday was filmed, and they found me through the contest.”
It sure beats Britain’s Got Talent.
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THIS Morning has released a new “Back To School” promo plugging its autumn season from September.
It shows Alison Hammond, Dermot O’leary, Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard looking at old pictures of themselves in their younger days.
It will air all this week on ITV.
SUR IS TOUGH
SURANNE JONES is worried about reprising her role in hit BBC drama Vigil as she’s struggling to learn her lines.
The actress says perimenopause has left her with severe brain fog and she’s concerned she won’t remember what DCI Amy Silva is supposed to say when filming starts next month.
Suranne told the We’re Not Getting Any Younger podcast: “The first series was in the submarine and we went to Morocco for the second one and it was boiling and I was like ‘I can’t remember anything’.
“I was trying HRT then but it wasn’t working and you just have to keep going, it’s a long process.
“Nothing has worked yet.”