Former Love Island winner Dani Dyer-Bowen is among the line-up of contestants for a new series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Dyer-Bowen, 29, who was forced to withdraw from this year's Strictly Come Dancing, will take part in the upcoming series of the Channel 4 reality show when it returns in January next year, in which contestants will undertake SAS training in north Africa.
Dyer-Bowen, who is married to England and West Ham United footballer Jarrod Bowen, said: "I’m a massive fan of the show. I’ve always watched it and wondered if I could do it. I want to put myself to the test.
"I’m nuts, but I think I will be good at it, I’ll be completely out of my comfort zone. I just hope that I will be able to stop listening to the voices in my head and just get to the end because that would make me so proud.
"I think physically I’ve got this, mentally is what I’ll struggle with as my brain attacks me all the bloody time. I just want to believe in myself a little bit more and stop being a negative Nancy."
She will be joined by former Love Island contestant Gabby Allen, TV personality Jessika Power, social media stars Jack Joseph and Cole Anderson-James, Neighbours actors Ryan Moloney and Natalie Bassingthwaighte, and World Cup-winning former rugby player Ben Cohen.
The line-up is completed by Gladiator and Olympian Toby Olubi, international cricketers Graeme Swann and Brad Hodge, Olympic swimmers Emily Seebohm and Mack Horton, and Home And Away actor and musician Axle Whitehead.
Former England star Swann added: "I wanted to take part in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, mostly to step out of my comfort zone and see how hard I could push myself but also, I wanted my kids to see that even the hardest tasks can be achieved if you just keep putting one foot in front of the other."
In the eight-part series, which will pit Team Australia against Team UK, chief instructor Billy Billingham and his team of directing staff, Jason "Foxy" Fox, Rudy Reyes and Chris Oliver return to lead the celebrities in their training.
Billingham said: "A challenge like no other, this series isn’t just a brutal personal course, their national pride is on the line. Who has the minerals to rise from the ashes or fade into the outback?
"North Africa has its own challenges, now throw the DS into the mix. Standby for tears, pain and glory. Now’s the time for them to give all to win all, who dares wins."
Unlike other reality shows, contestants are not eliminated on Celebrity SAS, and are instead culled by the directing staff or able to withdraw themselves, with those who remain at the end declared the winners.
The show will launch in January with a release date yet to be announced.
Source: Press Association
