Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins stars talk ‘interrogation finale’

As we approach the seventh and final episode of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins this weekend the remaining celebs ponder the series finale.

Only five stars remain out of an original lineup of sixteen.

Matt Hancock:

“It was really one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done and a very unpleasant experience.  The only way through it was to have the same attitude that I had during the whole course, to just keep sticking around for a few more minutes all the way through, even when the interrogators were trying to rile me.”

The final five celebrities facing the most feared phase of the course…resistance to interrogation are Matt Hancock (1), Gareth Gates (7), Danielle Lloyd (11), Teddy Soares (3) & Perri Shakes Drayton (6).  Coming to the end of this condensed version of the Special Forces Selection Course, each is tested physically and mentally, at a point when they are feeling their weakest. Many don’t make it past this point in the course…. but some find the inner strength to continue to push themselves to the end.

Danielle Lloyd:

“That was probably one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Forget about the heights and stuff like that. This was intense. The noises just literally f*ck your head up. I’d not eaten, I was wet, it was cold. It was just so hard to try and stay awake and try and stay focused. You’re exhausted physically and you’re exhausted mentally as well. There were so many times throughout that I nearly quit, but I just kept telling myself, “no, don’t give up, don’t give up”. Throughout the night during the interrogation phase, I remember thinking it’s got to nearly be over now and then it would just go on for hours and hours and hours and hours more. I honestly don’t know how I got through that. And then there were the noises…. I was actually thankful when I got pulled out to be interrogated and my hood would come off my head. I was thinking I’d rather this than still be listening to those noises.”

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Gareth Gates:

“It was definitely the worst experience of my life. I haven’t ever felt pain like it. When you are held in those stress positions for hours, it’s torture. I’ve seen the show and I’ve watched it on the screen but you just aren’t able to understand the pain of holding those positions, which look so simple. Also, these noises that they put in your ears, you become extremely anxious. It isn’t just the coupling of the physical pain of the stress positions with the anxiousness. The sounds make you feel awful, it really is unbearable. It was really horrendous.”

For the series finale, the remaining celebrities endure intense interrogation in the most feared phase of the course. The recruits have been captured by an elite Hunter Force, deep in the Vietnamese jungle.

They have been stripped of their clothes and belongings and placed in detention… in preparation for interrogation. They are questioned by a specialist team of Interrogators with over 40 years of experience in war zones. ‘Resistance to Interrogation’ is a key stage of SAS selection and over the following 14 hours, they are subjected to punishing interrogation techniques, as they use a cover story to hide their true mission.

Perri Shakes-Drayton:

“That was torture. I thought they were going to calm down, but one of the interrogators was talking really nasty, treating me like a piece of poo on her shoe. Then we had the noises and even dogs barking in our faces, I wasn’t expecting that. To get through it, I was trying to get myself to try to fall asleep but those sounds kind of got in the way!”

In the most feared phase of the course, they receive severe punishments, including being held in extreme stress positions.  Finally, they compete in a gruelling ‘sickener’ challenge, but as the celebrities edge closer to the end of the selection course, who will prove to be mentally and physically tough enough make it to the very end and eventually pass the course?  The final outcome might surprise you….

Teddy Soares:

“I was just about done. I remember being told that whole interrogation part lasted hours in the end, but at the time, it felt as though it was just lasting for days. I just remember thinking, “Has the sun come up yet?” One of the interrogators, Debs, was just so mean. I don’t think I’ve ever had a lady speak to me like that. I usually have ladies speak to me nicely but she didn’t. I genuinely thought I was going to be able to charm her but that didn’t happen! At that point I was so confused about how I didn’t manage to charm her!” 

Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, Sunday 5 November at 9 pm on Channel 4