Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins for Stand Up to Cancer
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Channel 4 Running
8 Seasons · 55 Episodes · Premiered April 7, 2019
In the first ever celebrity series of SAS: Who Dares Wins, 12 well-known faces embark on one of the toughest tests of their lives, to raise money for Stand Up To Cancer. They're living and surviving together in an unforgiving ex-military base, high in the Chilean Andes. From the recruits' very first challenge - a terrifying backwards dive out of a helicopter - Ant Middleton and his team of ex-special forces instructors are determined to show them that no allowances will be made for their celebrity status.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
5 episodes
E01
Courage
Sun, Apr 7 2019 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The celebrity recruits must dive backwards out of a helicopter before facing their fears in two-versus-one boxing. One recruit faces demons from her past and another struggles with a defiant attitude.
E02
Weakness
Sun, Apr 14 2019 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
One recruit collapses on a mountain and another is badly affected by the extreme cold, as Ant and the directing staff put the celebrities through a series of brutal challenges.
E03
Trust
Sun, Apr 21 2019 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E04
Confidence
Sun, Apr 28 2019 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The recruits are pursued through the Chilean countryside by a military hunter force. One recruit cracks and a bad decision jeopardises another's place on the course.
E05
Survival
Sun, May 5 2019 8:00 PM GMT+0000
80 min
The remaining celebrity recruits face a final, brutal challenge at the El Morado glacier, 3000 metres above sea level.
Season 2
6 episodes
E01
Discipline
Mon, Apr 20 2020 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E02
Mindset
Mon, Apr 27 2020 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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?
E03
Oppos
Mon, May 4 2020 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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?
E04
Weakness
Mon, May 11 2020 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The recruits face a killer 48 hours primed to expose the weakest members - including a beach beasting in near-freezing water and a gruelling race across mountainous terrain.
E05
Resilience
Mon, May 18 2020 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The remaining celebs face a punishing race across land and ocean, and an elite hunter team chase them across the Scottish Inner Hebrides through the night.
E06
Instinct
Mon, May 25 2020 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The final six celebs go through 48 hours of torture enduring the interrogation phase. Only the physically and mentally elite will make it to the end.
Season 3
6 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Sun, Aug 29 2021 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Ulrika Jonsson and Kerry Katona are among the latest celebrity recruits facing the gruelling tasks and interrogations that make up SAS training. In the first episode, they must brave an aerial assault course designed to test how candidates manage fear, and carry out a hostage rescue in a building that has been exposed to CS gas.
E02
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 5 2021 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Several of the 12 recruits question their place on the course as the gruelling tasks continue - including being pitted against each other in hand-to-hand combat. Saira Khan soldiers on despite an injury, and the recruits' decision-making skills are tested when they're forced to make a call on who to shoot and who to save in a hostage rescue task. Jake Quickenden is brought in for examination as his suitability is called into question.
E03
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 12 2021 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The remaining celebrities are put into pairs for 48 hours of trust exercises, beginning by rappelling down a 100-foot rock face, relying on their partner to break their fall. Once the task is complete, they must run three kilometres back to the van, but Ore Oduba struggles, leaving him and his partner Shanaze Reade stranded on the mountain overnight. In the final task, the recruits carry a 40kg fuel drum in pairs across four kilometres of gruelling terrain.
E04
Episode 4
Sun, Sep 19 2021 8:00 PM GMT+0000
65 min
The recruits take on the `redman" challenge, featuring hand-to-hand combat against their trainers, the DS (Directing Staff). Kieron Dyer catches the eye with his strength, but the DS want to know where he's at mentally. Next, the recruits are required to run down a 50m-high pillar face first. Alexandra Burke is still standing but struggling with her confidence. Later, it's the open-water task, where the recruits must dive nine feet deep in low visibility and open a crate of essential supplies.
E05
Episode 5
Sun, Sep 26 2021 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The recruits are split into two teams and challenged to transport boats across boggy terrain, as well as performing an open water rescue exercise involving a capsized vessel. Alexandra Burke struggles with a race up a cliff, and Wes Nelson undergoes interrogation by the directing staff, while messages from home put the whole team on an emotional knife edge.
E06
Episode 6
Sun, Oct 3 2021 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
As the final challenge begins, only five contenders remain. For their final challenge, they must go on the run from a trained team of hunters, with just a compass and a map to find their way to the extraction point. If captured, the recruits will face psychologically demanding interrogation, where they are hooded and exposed to white noise, and face brutal tactical questioning.
Season 4
7 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 4 2022 8:00 PM GMT+0000
75 min
Actors Maisie Smith and Jennifer Ellison, entrepreneur Calum Best, Olympic medallist Fatima Whitbread, reality TV stars Pete Wicks and Ferne McCann, ex-footballer Ashley Cain, influencer Amber Gill, dancers AJ Pand Curtis Pritchard, Olympic sprinter Dwain Chambers, taekwondo Olympic gold medallist Jade Jones, boxer Shannon Courtenay, and Paralympic high jumper Jonathan Broom-Edwards take part in a special edition of the training challenge. In the first episode, the recruits must crawl through sand in blistering 40-degree heat, before facing every desert soldier's worst nightmare - a gas attack.
E02
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 11 2022 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The celebrity recruits face a series of trust exercises, including jumping from a helicopter in pairs before working together to get to shore. However, when some of the group lose equipment and fail to keep their kit dry, all the recruits are punished for the mistake. Jennifer Ellison and Ferne McCann have to overcome their trust issues and self-doubt to freefall from a 150-foot cliff.
E03
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 18 2022 8:05 PM GMT+0000
60 min
 Twelve celebrity recruits remain from the original 14. Entering the next phase, the celebs face a series of tasks that will test their resilience to the max. In teams led by the fiercely competitive brothers Curtis and AJ Pritchard, they take on the gruelling task of moving a broken-down one-tonne Jeep to a safety zone over half a kilometre away - in searing heat and through thick sand. After being banned from athletics for using performance-enhancing drugs, ex-sprinter Dwain Chambers is eager to impress the DS as the celebrity recruits are tasked with balancing on ropes 160ft above the ground to cross a ravine.
E04
Episode 4
Sun, Sep 25 2022 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Shannon Courtenay comes face-to-face with her anger issues, and Ferne McCann confronts her fear of the dark when the recruits are forced to dive backwards from a seven-metre platform into the waters of the Gulf of Aqaba in the dead of night. At the end of the episode, the DS drop two recruits from the training program.
E05
Episode 5
Sun, Oct 2 2022 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Chief instructor Rudy Reyes puts Ashley Cain and Maisie Smith to the test, challenging them to get all their equipment across a body of water by zipline, without it getting wet. Finally, back in the blistering heat of the Jordanian desert, two teams of recruits must work out how to load and pull a 200kg sled loaded with equipment up a narrow ravine.
E06
Episode 6
Sun, Oct 9 2022 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The celebrities face the penultimate survival phase of the course, where they prepare for life on the run behind enemy lines. An ambush triggers traumatic memories for AJ Pritchard. Messages from home threaten to unsettle the recruits ahead of the escape and evasion phase, while Calum Best leads his team astray as they try to avoid capture by a relentless Hunter Force.
E07
Episode 7
Sun, Oct 16 2022 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The seven celebrity recruits face the final and most brutal phase of the course. Captured by the Hunter Force while trying to escape, they're questioned by a specialist team of interrogators with over 40 years of experience in war zones. The recruits must keep to their cover story, while subjected to punishing interrogation techniques, including ice baths and being buried in a box in a bid to force a confession.
Season 5
7 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Tue, Sep 26 2023 8:30 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Sixteen new celebrities, including Gareth Gates, Matt Hancock and Gareth Thomas, undergo special forces training in the Vietnamese jungle. Trainers Billy, Foxy, Rudy and Chris put the contestants to the test as they face the world's most challenging selection course - the trainasium, before fighting against each other in the rawest form of combat. Once celeb learns the importance of being a part of a good team as his failures result in others being punished.
E02
Episode 2
Sun, Oct 1 2023 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Famous faces including Gareth Gates, Matt Hancock and Gareth Thomas undergo special forces training. The celebrities face a punishing search operation through a series of rooms filled with CS gas. Can they work together to locate and escape before being overcome by the brutal effects of the contaminated air? Their mindset is also tested under pressure during a rescue mission when they are tasked with extracting two fellow recruits who have been taken hostage.
E03
Episode 3
Sun, Oct 8 2023 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The celebrities are tested on their mental and physical resilience, including an ascent to the top of a 200-foot cave, where they're ordered to abseil back down again. The second task is murderball: a serious test of physical strength and aggression. Finally, the recruits are tested emotionally when they must write a death letter to their loved ones.
E04
Episode 4
Sun, Oct 15 2023 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The trainees must prove they can trust their team, their leaders and themselves in a challenge so gruelling it leads to the medical withdrawal of three incapacitated recruits. For the second task of this phase, the celebrities are put through an individual challenge in which both their physicality and trustworthiness are put to the test.
E05
Episode 5
Sun, Oct 22 2023 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
One by one, the recruits must pull themselves across a 300-foot-wide ravine, before dropping 160 feet to the extraction point. An early-hours beasting is designed to weed out the weakest recruits. The recruits must also prove to the supervisors that they have what it takes mentally when they're offered a phone call to their loved ones back home.
E06
Episode 6
Sun, Oct 29 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The remaining recruits face a rough bout of pontoon wrestling. The hardships of jungle life take their toll, including draining weather, a lack of sleep and a calorie deficit from limited ration packs. This leaves the celebrities in far from their best condition as they embark on a simulated mission behind enemy lines.
E07
Episode 7
Sun, Nov 5 2023 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
For their final challenge, the five remaining celebrities endure intense interrogation, the most feared phase of the course. They must go through psychological and physical punishments designed to break their will and force a confession.
Season 6
8 episodes
E01
Discomfort
Sun, Sep 22 2024 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E02
Discipline
Mon, Sep 23 2024 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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?
E03
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 29 2024 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Episode 4
Mon, Sep 30 2024 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
Episode 5
Sun, Oct 6 2024 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
Episode 6
Mon, Oct 7 2024 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
Episode 7
Sun, Oct 13 2024 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Episode 8
Mon, Oct 14 2024 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 7
8 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Sun, Aug 3 2025 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E02
Episode 2
Mon, Aug 4 2025 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
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.
E03
Episode 3
Sun, Aug 10 2025 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Episode 4
Mon, Aug 11 2025 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
Episode 5
Sun, Aug 17 2025 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
Episode 6
Mon, Aug 18 2025 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
Episode 7
Sun, Aug 24 2025 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Episode 8
Mon, Aug 25 2025 8:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 8
8 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Sun, Jan 4 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Fourteen British and Australian celebrities - including TV personality Dani Dyer, Neighbours actor Ryan Moloney and rugby world cup winner Ben Cohen - face the most punishing challenge of their lives. In the brutal heat of North Africa, these famous faces are embarking on a savage, condensed version of SAS selection that even they won't be able to charm, spin or tweet their way out of. As the celebrities are stripped of their identities, luxuries and excuses, the brutal physical and mental course - led by Directing Staff Billy Bilingham, Foxy, Rudy Reyes and Chris Oliver - will lay them bare. They'll have no PR teams, filters or followers to rescue them. Instead, they'll face sweat, physical endurance, sand, tears and the truth they've been avoiding. The UK and Aussie recruits are put under extreme pressure as every mistake is punished, every crack exploited, every weakness dragged into the open. Bonds snap, egos shatter, and recruits are pushed so far past their limits they forget they ever had any. And when the dust settles, one question remains: will any of these celebrities make it to the end and impress the DS enough to pass the course? The celebrities begin by facing an underwater emergency escape task before taking on a bout of hand-to-hand combat.
E02
Episode 2
Mon, Jan 5 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
Phase two begins with chief instructor Billy determined to understand his celebrity recruits inside out. With psychological insight from Dr Gareth and a rare glimpse into Billy's own past, the recruits quickly learn what's expected of them. They're thrown into a life-or-death combat scenario as they're forced to decide in a heartbeat whether to fire or hold their nerve. Then a terrifying 230-metre crawl through mud-filled tunnels pushes fears to breaking point. A brutal beasting follows - and one recruit hands back their armband.
E03
Episode 3
Sun, Jan 11 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The remaining recruits are hurled into a terrifying escape drill with a single ladder suspended 15 metres up, which must be crossed while under enemy fire. As the heat intensifies, they must trek through a scorching canyon before embarking on an extreme ammo resupply. And the punishing race to a mountain summit with 100kg of kit exposes one recruit's leadership shortcomings.
E04
Episode 4
Mon, Jan 12 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
A brutal race up 27 flights to the top of a dam pushes the recruits hard, after which they must rappel 45 metres back down the dam before free-falling into turbulent water. They must then swim 40 metres to safety in under three minutes. Back at base, nerves shatter and more recruits exit. A high-stakes rescue in a war-torn village tests the remainder's moral courage.
E05
Episode 5
Sun, Jan 18 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
A failed rescue mission, a brutal task and rising pressure test group bonds as armbands are stripped and emotions laid bare.
E06
Episode 6
Mon, Jan 19 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
High-wire terror, tough combat and emotional death letters provide a stern test of recruits' composure as the selection process intensifies.
E07
Episode 7
Sun, Jan 25 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The emotional strain is cranked as the escape and evasion challenge leads the celebs into the darkness as they try to navigate the unknown.
E08
Episode 8
Mon, Jan 26 2026 9:00 PM GMT+0000
60 min
The recruits face their final and toughest challenge: a 12-hour interrogation. Only the strongest survive.
Cast
Shaun Dooley
as Narrator
Jason Fox
as Jason Fox
Mark Billingham
as Mark Billingham
Anthony Middleton
as Anthony Middleton
Ollie Ollerton
as Ollie Ollerton
Jay Morton
as Jay Morton
Melvyn Downes
as Melvyn Downes
Anthony Stazicker
as Anthony Stazicker
Rudy Reyes
as Rudy Reyes
Remi Adeleke
as Remi Adeleke