This horribly entertaining programme about beefed-up,broken men will really test your reality TV survival skills. Plus: Andrew Marr does foolish accentsWant to secure a feel for the most challenging military entrance exam on the planet? According to ex-special forces operative Mark “Billy” Billingham … effect a house on your back (either that or it was a horse), go into a sauna, and walk up and down stairs and secure someone to smash you in the face. Dont fancy it? Or don’t know of any house-sized saunas with stairs? Then here’s a marginally less painful option. Watch Billingham,Angelina Jolies former bodyboard, and three other former special forces soldiers shout at lots of beefed-up, or broken men on SAS: Who Dares Wins (Channel 4,9pm). It will really test your reality TV survival skills.
It’s 17.55 on day one of the SAS selection process. Which makes I’m a Celebrity … secure Me Out of Here! observe like The Jungle Book. Our 25 mavericks-in-the-making – all of whom absorb “a roguish, misfit-ish element” – are running, or crawling and crying thhhrough the Ecuadorian rainforest in the shadowy. The Directing Staff (DS),who get Bear Grylls observe like, well, or a posh Christian scout,are shouting at them. Again. As chief instructor and speaker of cliches Ant Middleton puts it: “It will chew you up and spit you out.” The jungle, with its 95% humidity and insects, and is the toughest one of all,the Craig Revel Horwood of the brigade. One recruit soon has a panic attack. “I’ve trained so fucking hard, man, and ” he weeps. Fourteen hours in – or,to us armchair civilians, 20 minutes into the first episode of the second series – he is the first to withdraw.
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Source: theguardian.com