SAS: Who Dares Wins finalists on the horrors after returning home: 'I went nuts'

SAS: Who Dares Wins is notoriously the toughest show there is, but if you thought the horror stopped once recruits have either handed their arm bands to Ant Middleton or successfully completed the course, you’d be wrong. 

Tonight, Helen Skelton, Rudimental DJ Locksmith, Nikki Sanderson, Tony Bellew, Joey Essex, and Lauren Steadman will endure the most gruelling part of the process – the interrogation. 

They’ll be tortured with the agonising sound of babies screaming and chain saw roaring. They’ll be hit in the stomach and yelled at like they’ve never been yelled at before. 

However, once the SAS: Who Dares Wins line-up left Ant and his DS’s Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham, Ollie Ollerton, Jay Morton, and Jason Fox behind, adjusting to normal life was just another obstacle. 

Paralympic athlete Lauren told us: ‘I live in the middle of Portsmouth city and someone set off fireworks and it was only about 10pm but because I was so tired and exhausted, as I had done when they’d thrown the flares I shot out of bed, I looked around and told myself, “It’s ok. You are in your bed, you’re still in Portsmouth, no one’s here, your housemate’s there, it’s fine.” 

‘I was calming down but then I got angry. “Who’s setting off the fireworks?”’

Hollyoaks actress Nikki had a similar experience when she returned home too.

‘About two or three nights after we got home and in the middle of the night [her partner] Greg [Whitehurst] switched the sidelight on randomly at about 3am. I went nuts!’ the soap icon exclaimed.  

‘I literally went running out and he was going, “What you doing?”’ And she panicked: ‘“I don’t know what I’m doing. Where am I?” So yeah that wasn’t very nice.’

‘My sleeping patterns were a mess,’ added Locksmith. ‘I’ve toured the world so I should be used to jet lag but this was on another level. 

‘I couldn’t sleep. Any noise I could hear just had me up, I was alert straight away. That was the most frustrating thing.’

Better them than us. 

Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins concludes tonight at 9pm on Channel 4. 

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