Series synopsis
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins is a British reality television series that premiered on Channel 4 on April 7, 2019. It stars Ant Middleton, Billy Billingham, Jason Fox and Rudy Reyes.
Celebrities who think they have what it takes to pass the SAS selection are pushed to their limit, and beyond, by an elite team of ex-special forces operators.
Premise
Celebrities who think they have what it takes to pass the SAS selection are pushed to their limit, and beyond, by an elite team of ex-special forces operators.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Ant Middleton as Self - Chief Instructor
- Billy Billingham as Self - Chief Instructor
- Jason Fox as Self - Directing Staff
- Rudy Reyes as Self - Directing Staff
- Chris Oliver as Self - Directing Staff
- Matthew Ollerton as Self - Directing Staff
- Melvyn Downes as Self - Directing Staff
- Remi Adeleke as Self - Directing Staff
Supporting cast
- Anthony Stazicker as Self - Directing Staff
- Jay Morton as Self - Directing Staff
- Alia Bojilova as Self - Psychologist
Guest cast
- Louise Mensch as Self - Recruit 1
- Dev as Self - Recruit 2
- Jeff Brazier as Self - Recruit 3
- Andrea McLean as Self - Recruit 4
- Victoria Pendleton as Self - Recruit 5
- Jeremy Irvine as Self - Recruit 6
- Camilla Thurlow as Self - Recruit 7
- Wayne Bridge as Self - Recruit 8
- Ben Foden as Self - Recruit 9
- Heather Fisher as Self - Recruit 10
- AJ Odudu as Self - Recruit 11
- Sam Thompson as Self - Recruit 12
Episodes
This series spans 9 seasons with 63 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 5 | April 7, 2019 | May 5, 2019 |
| Season 2 | 6 | April 20, 2020 | May 25, 2020 |
| Season 3 | 6 | August 29, 2021 | October 3, 2021 |
| Season 4 | 7 | September 4, 2022 | October 16, 2022 |
| Season 5 | 7 | September 26, 2023 | November 5, 2023 |
| Season 6 | 8 | September 22, 2024 | October 14, 2024 |
| Season 7 | 8 | August 3, 2025 | August 25, 2025 |
| Season 8 | 8 | January 4, 2026 | January 26, 2026 |
| Season 9 | 8 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Courage From the recruits' very first challenge - a terrifying backwards dive out of a helicopter - Ant Middleton and his team are determined to show there will be no allowances made. Later, the celebrities have to overcome more fears. |
April 7, 2019 |
| 2 |
Weakness Chief instructor Ant Middleton and his directing staff put the celebrity recruits through a series of tests. One celebrity recruit collapses on a mountain and another is badly affected by the extreme cold, as they face brutal challenges. |
April 14, 2019 |
| 3 |
Trust The celebrities are paired up to prove that they're team players, and must put their lives in each other's hands, in a terrifying free fall abseil. They must leave their celebrity world behind and learn to trust their partner to keep their place. |
April 21, 2019 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Discipline The recruits face a terrifying 50-metre free-fall off a cliff, followed by boxing with a twist. Katie Price must cope with the pressures of past and present. Tony Bellew battles with his inner demons. |
April 20, 2020 |
| 2 |
Mindset In the second selection phase, the celebs face murderball, a brutal beasting, a backwards helicopter dive into near-freezing waters, and a few home truths. But who will make it through? |
April 27, 2020 |
| 3 |
Oppos The celebs are put in specially selected pairs. They must eat, sleep and operate as a duo. Joey Essex and paralympian Lauren Steadman may shine as individual players, but can they do teamwork? |
May 4, 2020 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Panic Twelve celebrities head for the wilds of the Scottish Hebrides. They tackle an aerial assault course, then attempt to rescue a hostage. |
August 29, 2021 |
| 2 |
Courage The 12 celebs take on hand-to-hand combat. They also put their wits to the test in a hostage rescue mission. With tension mounting, two of the recruits are soon heading home. |
September 5, 2021 |
| 3 |
Trust The celebs do pair work as they descend 100 feet down a rock face, force march and carry a 40kg fuel drum over rough terrain. By the end of all this, some will be heading home. |
September 12, 2021 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Discipline 14 celebrity recruits face the toughest course to date, played out in the unforgiving terrain of the Jordanian desert. The recruits face an intense start to the course, crawling through sand in blistering 40-degree heat, before facing a gas attack. |
September 4, 2022 |
| 2 |
Trust The celebrity recruits must jump from a helicopter in pairs. Next, they take the life of a teammate in their hands as one of them free-falls from a 150-foot cliff, being kept from crashing to the ground by their partner. |
September 11, 2022 |
| 3 |
Resilience The recruits take on the gruelling task of moving a broken-down one-tonne Jeep in searing heat and through thick sand. Then the celebs must balance on ropes 160 feet above the ground to cross a ravine. |
September 18, 2022 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Fear 16 celebrity recruits are pushed to their limit in the unforgiving Vietnamese jungle. The new recruits must first traverse parallel metal bars suspended 50 feet above the ground. Then they must fight against each other in the rawest form of combat. |
September 26, 2023 |
| 2 |
Mindset The celebs face a punishing search operation through a series of rooms filled with CS gas. And they're tested under pressure during a rescue mission when they're tasked with extracting two of their fellow recruits who've been taken hostage. |
October 1, 2023 |
| 3 |
Resilience The celebs first climb up a 200-foot cave, and abseil back down again. The second task is murderball: a serious test of physical strength and aggression. Finally, the recruits must write a 'death letter' to their loved ones. |
October 8, 2023 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Discomfort Celebrities who think they have what it takes to pass the SAS selection are pushed to their limit by an elite team of ex-special forces operators. Fifteen recruits from the worlds of entertainment, sport and journalism take part in the hardest course yet, as Chief Instructor Billy and his team expose them to winter warfare training on New Zealand's South Island. For their first task, the celebs must traverse the Trainasium - parallel metal bars suspended 335ft in the air. Then, the recruits' mindsets are tested under extreme pressure when they stage an intense hostage rescue mission. |
September 22, 2024 |
| 2 |
Discipline The spotlight focuses on the Special Forces' high levels of discipline. In the first task, a terrifying feat tests the celebrities both mentally and physically as they race in a forward abseil down a 300-ft working dam. Then, under cover of darkness, the recruits must perform one of the most feared tasks - the backwards dive. Will the celebrity recruits conduct themselves in the manner required? |
September 23, 2024 |
| 3 |
Oppos The celebs are paired with an 'oppo' for mutual support as they pull heavy equipment across treacherous, icy mountain terrain. But then they have to fight each other. |
September 29, 2024 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Commitment Rebecca Loos, Louie Spence and Conor Benn are among the 14 celebrities taking on the most challenging selection course in the world. This series comes from Wales, the birthplace of the Special Forces. For their first task, the celebs must plunge into the freezing sea, swim to a rendezvous point and attempt to jump onto a moving speedboat. |
August 3, 2025 |
| 2 |
Pressure The recruits go head-to-head in a terrifying hang-tough task 160 feet above a quarry - testing mental and physical strength. Then they take on a car ambush task where they must drive into a simulated war zone, pick up an ally, and vacate hostile territory into a safe zone, intact. |
August 4, 2025 |
| 3 |
Panic The recruits get a rude awakening with some lessons in staying calm, tackling an emergency drill in a sinking boat before going head-to-head in combat with their fellow celebs. |
August 10, 2025 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Behind Enemy Lines Decades of rivalry are tested as 14 British and Australian celebs take on an SAS selection course. First up is an underwater drill and it's Brits vs Aussies in hand-to-hand combat. |
January 4, 2026 |
| 2 |
Misfits Phase two pushes recruits to breaking point with psych tests, split-second life and death decisions, mud tunnels and a brutal beasting that forces one of the celebs out. |
January 5, 2026 |
| 3 |
Composure A perilous ladder escape, 15 metres up, is followed by a scorching ammo mission up the side of a mountain, as one recruit's lack of leadership is exposed for all to see. |
January 11, 2026 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | |
| 2 | Episode 2 | |
| 3 | Episode 3 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Channel 4 |
|---|---|
| First aired | April 7, 2019 |
| Last aired | January 26, 2026 |
| Runtime | 45 minutes |
| Status | continue |
| Schedule | Monday, Sunday at 21:00:00 |