“This is not a game,” Chief Instructor Ant Middleton spits at the line of seventeen celebrities participating in SAS Australia, just as he arrives on the edge of a freezing lake in the Snowy Mountains having back-flipped into it from a helicopter hovering above it.
It is clear from the outset some of the participants (full list here), including former Ironwoman Candice Warner, former Rugby International and indecisive Bachelor Nick Cummins, former Bachelorette Ali Oetjen, actor Firass Dirani, and self-absorbed Sydney-centric PR executive Roxy Jacenko, think Middleton is joking. They learn very quickly he’s not, as barks at them to each prepare for the same helicopter jump and swim, all be forced to change completely into dry clothes where they are so to be ready for the next task in just minutes, and then face a muddy beach crawl. All this before the first…
