Manu Feildel, Brynne Edelsten, Sam Burgess join SAS Australia
SAS Australia is set to return to Seven later this year, and the network has named 18 celebrities who’ll take part in the gruelling challenges this season.
A smattering of former sports stars will be joined by actors, media personalities, a Bra Boy, musicians, and a former politician, with the series to be produced by Screentime, a Banijay Group company.
Leading the names are former NRL and rugby player Sam Burgess, ex-tennis star Mark Philippoussis, and dual Olympian Jana Pittman, plus Ironman Jett Kenny, Olympian John Steffensen and AFL player Heath Shaw, among others whose former sporting prowess should leave them in relatively good stead for the challenge.
Other names include celebrity chef Manu Feildel, presumably free with My Kitchen Rules and Plate Of Origin rested from Seven’s programming slate this year, ‘sociallite’ and former wife of Jeffrey Edelsten, Brynne Edelsten, and singer-songwriter Pete Murray, and ex-politician Emma Husar.
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In addition, Seven has confirmed that former Special Forces Soldiers, Ant Middleton, Mark “Billy” Billingham, Jason “Foxy” Fox and Ollie Ollerton will return from the UK to lead the recruits through what’s being promised to be the toughest course seen on the show in Australia or the UK.
They’ll take the celebrities through a series of physical and psychological challenges, taken from the real SAS selection process.
Chief instructor Middleton said: “Living in our world will be the rawest and most brutal life lesson these celebrities will ever experience. We aren’t holding anything back, it’s as authentic as it gets.”
Three celebrities made it through the process in 2020: ex-Bachelor star and rugby player Nick Cummins, media personality Merrick Watts and AFLW player Sabrina Frederick.
In 2020, SAS Australia’s premiere drew 834,000 metro viewers, with the show going on to be the biggest ever in terms of audience on 7Plus during its run.
The finale would go on to draw in 737,000 metro viewers.
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Zanda Wilson was a reporter and podcast producer at Mumbrella, specialising in radio reporting. He left Mumbrella in September 2021.
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