This programme contains strong language and discussions which some viewers might find upsetting.
Hands by your side. Sit.
For the select few this process might make them,
but for the majority of these celebrities... Guards!
..it will completely break them.
Hands. Walk.
Move!
Incoming, let's go!
In this series... Squeeze it in!
..16 celebrity recruits... Crawl, zip it!
..will leave their glamorous lives behind.
Lay down on the ground!
Get in there!
They will be put through the most gruelling stages of SAS selection.
EXPLOSIONS
..by an elite team of ex-Special Forces soldiers.
Honesty, integrity, trust,
everything we've installed in you from day one. Everything!
No allowances or exceptions will be made.
Get on your stomach!
I'm not scared of getting dirty,
but I'm going to have to change these.
I can just about open my car door.
Go! Whoa, whoa!
My mum does not want me to do this.
She's scared I'm going to get injured.
I think she's really, really not looking forward to that.
Get in to it!
I've seen pressure... I need support now!
..so what I'm going to face on this course is water off a duck's back.
Take him down!
GROANS IN PAIN.
Like an injured slug. Lift up your boat!
No other test asks as much...
Argh, argh! You've got it. Let's go!
Well done, ZoZo. ..or means as much...
Well done.
..to the few who make it through.
Welcome to your worst nightmare.
I am nervous right now.
Get this bag off my head now.
16 celebrities... Oh, my God.
Everyone just breathe.
..are about to embark on a condensed version of SAS selection.
Scared!
Celebrities are everything
that you shouldn't be in the special forces.
You need to be someone who is self-sufficient,
robust, resilient.
Get on with it! Face forward.
This course is like an awakening for celebrities.
Go. Look out!
Everyone thinks that they can push through their fears
until they are faced with them
and they realise how uncomfortable they are.
Stand up, stand up right. Turn around.
The people that can do that
are the only people that will be stood there at the end.
Put your hands on the handrail, step forward. Step up.
I'm quite used to being in a hostile environment.
Politics by its nature has hostility built into it.
Still.
I've had my share of hostility.
Just look at me.
One of the things about having been the Health Secretary
in the pandemic is almost everybody has a personal view on you,
and who knows what the DS will think.
Is that a smirk on your face?
I think I'm about to find out.
Follow the pontoon around, don't touch it.
Pontoon? Zip it. Cork it up.
I'm 51. I'm five foot one. I've got three children.
You know, I've got a pocket full of crystals.
I'm the least likely candidate for this course.
This will be the toughest thing I've ever done,
which terrifies the crap out of me.
I am excited. I'm ready, I think.
Even if inside I'm going, "Oh, my God."
Get that smile off your face.
I can't hide how I'm feeling very well,
which is really bad considering I'm an actor!
I'm a sore loser.
Being an ex-footballer it's the nature of the game,
I'm very competitive. You don't play not to win.
The worst thing to happen would be quitting.
That's a no-no, and I don't think I could handle that.
Out in the jungle the weather changes quicker
than it does back home. It is rapid.
Before you know it, you're in a monsoon.
I mean, it's battering you, and you've got to be prepared for that.
The humidity alone rots you as a human.
When it starts to rain, it just speeds the process up.
It will chew you up and spit you out.
Let's go. Move with purpose!
The jungle is like a living creature and its mood changes
and when the weather turns bad
that's the jungle in a fucking terrible mood.
I've been through enough shit in my life to realise who I am.
But what I am really interested about knowing
is what I'm capable of.
Look at me, just understand. Just look at me.
This course is deemed as one of the hardest things
that anyone will ever, ever do,
physically and mentally.
Argh!
So, I desperately feel it's a pivotal moment in my life
to figure out to myself,
has the past given me that ability to be really strong in the future?
20 years ago on Pop Idol I'd become the UK's biggest loser.
I think the public perception of me
is young, shy boy.
That's what they saw all those years ago.
So, I'm looking forward to showing the public
that I'm a man now with a beard
and I'm a bit stronger than I was then.
Jogging on the spot!
I will be counting one of you.
Do not get caught fucking cheating!
Everybody understand?
ALL: Yes, staff.
20 burpies, go!
Do the exercises correctly or you will pay.
These celebrities may think they know what fear is,
but this course will give them a whole new perceptive to the term.
When I say go, you're going to sprint as fast as you can
down this road.
Stand by.
Just the environment alone is going to give them shock and fear.
Go!
You're running like a fucking ostrich.
The jungle, the DS... Go.
..and the constant pressure. We'll see who's who.
Go. Do it!
If you never try something, you don't fail.
If you don't fail you don't learn.
Around the edge, around the edge.
Around the edge, you buffoon! Get off!
I know that this course is going to be extremely intense.
I don't know how I'm going to deal with it.
Around the edge.
Ferne McCann even told me that this is harder than giving birth.
Get on your number and stand still.
I don't know how good my pain threshold is.
I stubbed my toe recently and it absolutely killed.
Through the gap!
Welcome to Vietnam.
Welcome to your worst nightmare.
Stood in front of you right now is over five decades of operational
and training experience in this jungle environment.
We are your DS.
At all times you will address us as "staff", do you understand?
ALL: Yes, staff.
This course is going to be
the hardest thing you've done in your life.
It's fucking horrendous.
The longer you stay on this course,
the better version of you you will become.
I fucking promise you that. Listen in.
Hancock, number one, right here.
Right, when you get your name and your number called out,
look at me. Come to me for your number.
When you've got your number, grab a Bergen.
Foxy. Be polite - "Thank you staff."
Thank you, staff. You're welcome.
If they turn up with the wrong attitude
thinking it's some celebrity boot camp...
Argent, number two! Get over here. Nasty thing!
..we'll just keep hammering them until they stop acting like idiots.
Pull up your pants. Nasty. Thank you, staff.
Get over there.
Something you find funny, is that?
Bergen above your head, number four.
Get it above your head now!
I'll give you something to fucking laugh about.
We will drill it out of them until that attitude is dropped.
Still find it funny? No, staff.
I didn't think you fucking would. Put it down.
We're here to show people what they can actually achieve,
but to be able to do that we've got to be hard on them.
Take the clothing out of the bag and get changed.
Go! Quick as you can!
We're hard on ourselves,
so we're not going to go easy on these lot.
And if they don't like that, they can fuck off.
Get your belt on properly, number two.
Fucking painful to watch. A bag of shit.
We throw everything into this course
and we do it for their own benefit.
Come on, then. Woohoo!
Oi, shut the fuck, who did that? You can fucking stand by.
Come on, then, up here!
I'm just this girl from Newcastle.
I pretended to be a pop star for 23 years.
Don't really know what I'm doing.
Get up here, you clown! Stand by doesn't mean stand there.
I get a kick out of being scared. I just know I'm going to love it.
Right, stand at the end of the bed.
Right, this is your accommodation. This is where you live, enjoy life.
This place needs to be kept immaculate.
Your water vessels, bottles and the bladder,
they will always be topped up to the brim.
Right, cheer up. Smile.
You're in your own time.
You all right? You OK?
Come here. Yeah?
Come on.
Listen - stop, stop, stop. I'm such a dickhead. Oh, my God.
Oh, Gareth.
I mean, that was straight into the deep end, wasn't it?
Literally.
I knew this was going to be frightening,
but it was still way beyond. Yeah. Yeah.
This is absolutely insane.
LAUGHTER.
That's bad, oh, that's bad.
Throughout the selection process,
Chief Instructor Billy and his DS
will assess the performances of the recruits...
I mean he has actually got a brain of a plant.
..earmarking those who are standing out
and decide who to apply extra pressure to.
Number one.
Focused but he brings with him baggage.
LOUD FART.
Eww, dirty one. Shut up.
He's come in for a big reason, isn't he?
Yeah. So let's get ready to dig into him right from
the off. Mmm. Number two.
He's highlighted himself straight away. Yes.
Your arse is hanging out. Oh, I think I've broken my belt.
Yeah, I'm not sure if he's never worn trousers before,
but his fucking arse is on show
and he hasn't done his belt up properly once.
He's going to have issues.
He's going to be a nightmare.
Number 12. He's a unit, isn't he?
Do you know I've never talc'd my feet before?
HIGH VOICE: Haven't you? No, I haven't.
Regular with my balls, but never, but never my feet.
He brings the heat.
Yeah. But then I'm not sure how long he can sustain it.
Yeah. All right, anything else?
No. OK, thanks. Done.
After 52 hours of continuous rain,
the base is flooded with 16 inches of water.
Do you reckon it's going to be raining every day?
It's sunny outside now. Is it actually really?
Um, no.
Honestly, I've just got pure swamp in my breasts.
I've got swamp in my knickers.
That's going to give me a rash. Swamp bush.
Recruits, let's go.
Fucking hell.
Oh, no.
Why is it now, I feel like I need a shit.
Let's go! Move out.
Come on, get up there.
Stay in formation, let's go!
I don't think my willpower has ever been tested like this before.
I have no game plan. I'm completely winging it,
so I'll just take whatever comes out.
Keep going. Get here.
I'm from a really privileged part of the UK.
I went to an amazing school. Let's go!
So I just feel like I've lived my life in a bubble.
Cover down behind a harness.
I feel like that's all going to be ripped away from me
and I don't know how I feel about it.
Begin rigging up, do it now.
To test the recruit's ability to handle fear,
the DS have brought them to one of
the most terrifying of all military tests,
the Trainasium.
RUDY: To overcome your fear of heights,
calm your mind. Focus and execute.
BILLY: Stand by.
Fuck.
Oh, my God.
Advance.
In a task taken from Special Forces selection,
the recruits must traverse two
parallel bars suspended 50 feet above the ground.
Oh, my God.
During the crossing,
they will be required to complete multiple maneuvers.
BILLY: Hold the position.
DANIELLE: Oh, my God.
Touch your toes. Stand up.
I can't touch my toes. My legs ache.
Advance.
The demonstration you just witnessed is
a prime example of what you are to expect in
the special operations community.
Absolutely petrified.
Number one. Switch the fuck on.
It's essential that every single Special Forces operator can
conduct operations at height.
The recruits are being put through jungle warfare training
and are about to take on The Trainasium.
Number two, off you go.
Get a move on.
Attempting the crossing... Keep it going!
..is recruit number two, reality TV star,
James Argent.
My biggest fear is how intense this course is.
I just don't know if physically I'm
going to be there yet.
Let's go, two!
And that's because a year ago I was extremely overweight
and I was getting bigger.
I couldn't even tie my own shoelaces,
so that's why I decided to have a gastric sleeve operation.
Sit down, sit down on the floor.
I think that was like a task in itself. Stand there.
I feel much happier, healthier,
but sometimes I feel weak.
But in terms of how much I want it,
I know that I'm going to give it my all.
FOXY: If you fuck it up, the only way is down. Not fucking Essex.
Come on, number two, shuffle forward.
Oh, no, I'm not very good at this.
That's not even the start, walk to the start.
There you go. Keep it coming.
Let go of that rope. JAMES: Oh, wow.
Take the roller boots off. Now release.
Ah, ah. Don't rush it. Let go of the rope. Sorry, sorry.
A bit Shakey Stevens.
BILLY: Shuffle, lean back. You're leaning too far forwards. Shuffle.
Slowly. Ah!
Let go of that rope!
It's your last warning. OK.
One more fucking time I'm going to run across there
and knock you off it.
Dig deep now, mate. Ah, ah.
Come on. Stop making silly noises and keep moving.
Bend, touch your toes, stand up straight. OK.
Go on, then. Touch your toes.
HE GROANS.
Touch your toes.
Stand up straight. Ah! Shuffle, all the way to the obstacle now.
Slow it down. Shit. Let go of the rope.
Fuck, sorry.
Get the fuck off out, go.
This side? Fucking go or I'll come and throw you off.
Let go of that rope. Let go of the rope!
Fuck.
Fail.
I don't think this is for me.
Next! Ah, fucking hell. Get on with it.
Next up is recruit number 11.
Come on, we're running out of daylight. TV personality,
Danielle Lloyd. Oh, God.
People probably think
I've just lived some glamorous life
and I want to change people's perceptions.
I'm actually a strong person.
Have a look down. Yeah. No, go on, have a look down.
I can see it. Open your eyes.
Make sure you can see through those eyelashes.
It's only been in the last few years that I've realised now,
I can be a really strong woman.
I've got my five kids and I've got to be strong for them.
Are you scared of heights? Yeah.
Have you been up at height before? Yeah.
When I freak out, I scream, I shout,
I swear. Advance.
Good position, well done. Ah, fuck.
My mum actually did say to me, she went,
please don't swear. Fuck.
Do not grab that rope any more.
I'm trying, staff. OK,
what I want you to do now is stand still.
Perfectly still. Don't touch the rope.
Touch your toes.
Legs straight.
Nailed it.
Now let's go. Momentum. Mmm.
Whoa. OK, you've got an obstacle to cross in a minute.
Yes, staff. You have to go through.
Composure now, composure. Stand up, take a breath.
It's making me nervous watching it. Go.
Don't touch that rope!
Oh!
You've got one more time or you're going off the side or down the middle.
I'm trying staff. I'm trying, I'm fucking shitting myself. Try harder.
Shut up. I don't want to hear it,
just do it. Keep going.
Ohhhh! Keep going.
Ah, fuck. Keep coming. Keep coming.
Ohhh!
Stand still. Stand right there.
Nice. You overcome
a lot of fears there, didn't you? Yeah.
Take a breath, realise where you are.
That's a good effort, well done. Thank you, staff.
Take your hands off the rope. Stand by.
Advance. I can't. Keep going.
Ah, ah, ah, ah!
Like a baby walking to its mother for the first time,
that's all you have to think about.
I was never particularly sporty as a younger person.
I was slow, cack-handed,
terrible at hand-to-eye coordination. I was shit.
SHE YELLS.
So the idea of this course, terrifies me somewhat.
Pathetic. Hold it,
hold it. That's good. Good body position.
I'm not a fan of roller-coasters, bungee jumping.
If someone told me to jump out of a plane I'd look down
and be like, hell no. Go.
Wah, wah, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Let's do it. You've got this, let's go.
There's like two sides of me.
Love going out, getting pampered,
but then there's a side of me that loves getting sweaty in the gym
and not afraid to get dirt up her nails.
OHHHH! Fail, number ten. You've got it,
let's go.
Miserable. Fail.
Good, you're nailing it now.
Losing my arm was the best thing to ever happen to me.
Arm out, balance.
Since losing my arm I've always thrown myself at every challenge.
The first military injured serviceman
to win gold at Paralympic Games.
Probably one of the hardest things on
the course is going to be doing my shoelaces.
You're leaning forward. Keep it straight and go.
Fail. Fucking hell.
How does that feel? Good.
Good? Yeah, you nailed it. Yep.
Well done. Thank you.
Good effort!
Ah, Mr Hancock with the silent han.
Number one, staff.
All right, you moody cow.
Next to attempt the crossing...
Have you got a fear of heights?
Not particularly, but nobody wants to fall, do they?
Stand back over there. ..is recruit number one,
former Health Secretary, Matt Hancock.
I've been in some of
the most high pressure situations that you can imagine.
Stand by. Arms forward. Advance.
In those really high pressure moments I hope I can draw on what
I've, well, experienced.
Leg forward, hip forward.
Especially to know that you've just got
to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
That's it.
Each step,
even when you think you can't take any more,
you can take one step.
Keep the fucking rhythm going, number one.
And if you imagine the finish line is just five steps away,
you could always make it.
Slow it down.
Ah, ah, ah, ah. Stand, oi!
Fucking dismount. What the fuck happened there?
Fucking Cirque du Soleil, was it?
That was fucking Fredwardo, or in English,
failed. Bollocks!
Wanted to show us how to do a somersault, eh?
I didn't want to grab the bar, staff.
Catastrophic fail, number one.
Yeah, thanks.
You complete and utter buffoon.
What the fuck was that?
Get ready to move, on me.
All right, let's go.
Close these gaps, quick as you can,
get up there, number six. Close the gaps.
BILLY: Pooh sticks. Could have a pooh stick race through the camp.
We'll just drop the sticks at the top here. Yeah.
Just get them raking the fuck up.
OK, the Trainasium,
nobody's strongly positive if I'm honest.
This lot at the minute they're just not with it.
They literally are just coasting along.
I don't think they're taking it serious enough at the minute.
What we need to do is really turn it up.
Who came where and what? Rudy?
I don't even know where to begin with two.
Obviously a fail.
I think he failed so soon that I didn't have any notes to right down.
Yeah. I mean he wasn't the quickest to fall,
but he wasn't far from the start point anyway.
Yeah, he'd gone about a metre, I think. Fail.
Yeah, yeah. Well, then we had number 11,
afraid of heights. Her hands were on the ropes,
touched the bars, but she did make it all the way across.
Yeah, it was an interesting fucking move across there.
She isn't going to win anything on glamour or style,
but she got across and she was delighted.
So it was good for her, pass. Mmm. Pass.
Next. Number one. All I have is fail.
He took a nose dive through the fucking, the rigging.
He stepped on, he went about eight inches.
Mate. His attitude,
I didn't want to grab the bar, staff.
You know really cocky about it.
I think he's come heavily guarded because of who he is.
He's expecting everybody to immediately be against him.
That's not the case, you know you have a crack with everybody
and he seems he's taking things too fucking personal.
Quite frankly I get the impression that he's got
a bit of an attitude and he thinks he's above everyone.
Chip on his shoulder. Well, we'll take that chip away very soon.
He's worthy of a chat. Mh-mm. Happy with that?
Roger. Happy.
Let's go.
It was the thin white one I was looking for.
Thank you.
Number one!
Coming.
After his failure on the previous task...
Right, number one. Stand facing there.
Fucking hell.
..the DS want to delve deeper...
Why, why did he do that?
Walk.
..into recruit number one, Matt Hancock's psychological state.
Stand still.
Put your hands by your side. Cross. Stand still, stand.
Relax. You look like you're about to get executed.
How are you doing?
Not as well as I'd hoped.
Why?
I let myself down a couple of times.
Where do you feel you've let yourself down?
I shouldn't have fallen off the bars.
That was a pretty good fucking fall.
I made a total tit out of myself.
Why are you here?
Because I want to push myself basically.
I've been through something really big.
Didn't end the way I wanted it to. What was that?
well, I handled the pandemic, didn't I?
Don't know, you tell me. Yeah, well, I did.
It was the biggest experience of my life.
It would be very hard to see
a bigger... professional experience than being
the Health Secretary in a pandemic.
I've pushed myself in the past,
but I want to test the limits.
See how deep I can dig.
How do you feel about how it all ended then
with regard to the pandemic?
I was managing a very difficult situation in
a professional sense. Thought I'd done a pretty good job.
And then. And then it fucking fell apart.
I fell in love with somebody I'd known since I was at university
and worked closely with in the pandemic,
and I had to resign from government.
Let's put this in layman's terms, number one.
Basically, the rules that you've established as a country
to follow, you think, you know what I'm above this,
I'm bigger than the system. Yeah, I didn't think that.
I'm talking.
Fucking listen in, yeah?
You think, fuck this,
I'm going to have a bit of that.
I'm going to break the rules here.
I'm going to break the rules there on
a number of occasions.
From sitting on this side of the table that's exactly how it went down.
Well, I'll, well... From the background...
Yeah. ..We come from,
the very foundations is honesty and integrity,
so put the barriers down. Yeah.
And explain it properly, yeah?
Well, the truth is, I was very careful not
to break any of the laws,
but what I didn't think was that there was still guidance,
wasn't legally binding by that point,
but it was still the guidance that we were putting out.
The point being is this guidance is stuff that you wrote.
Like when we... That is the point. Whoa, whoa, wait. Yeah.
When we dish out a set of orders,
we fucking live our life by that as well. Yes.
With integrity.
As far as I'm concerned, you showed weak leadership allowing things
to get in the way of a position that you were entrusted
to hold. Yeah.
I regret the lack of leadership at the end.
Going back to this course.
And by the way... Oi. Sorry.
Shut the fuck up. This is the issue,
this is what I'm about to talk about.
Mh-mm. We are here to put people under pressure.
We do that to see how people respond.
Outside of this course,
you might have been subjected to no end of fucking shit
and quite frankly we don't care.
This is a clean slate.
If you're stood out there
and you are feeling like you're getting shit thrown at you,
that isn't personal.
Do you see where I'm going with this?
I do. It means curb your attitude,
and think for ten seconds before engaging your mouth or
a facial expression. Understood.
This is the place to throw it all on
the fucking table, leave nothing in reserve.
Show us what you've got
and you'll learn something from this, 100%.
Guard! DOOR BANGS.
Stand up. Hands. Walk.
Turn to your right.
I have self-doubt about things that I have done.
Oh, bloody hell.
Did you cry, Matt?
I didn't cry. I'm not very good, I'm not much of a crier. Aww, boo-hoo.
One of the things about this course is it will get down
to the fundamental truth.
Matt, what did they ask you like? What kind of questions?
Covid, pandemic.
And push me in a way that I haven't been pushed
and I'll find out more about myself.
You've probably answered that question a million times anyway.
Yeah. Although there are better at getting under your skin than your
average interviewer. Yeah, true.
Do you want a hug? No!
No.
I just hope that I know enough about myself that I can,
that I can get through it.
I desperately need to go to the toilet today.
Oh, really? I always have a morning fart.
Oh, yeah.
Someone was farting. I heard someone fart.
It wasn't me. I was laughing my head off. I just heard phhaaahh.
Oh, funny.
Recruits, let's go!
Stay in formation. Let's go.
At the beginning of the course
the celebs' fear levels are going to be sky-high.
Suffer in silence.
So that's why we throw them into a violent situation.
It is a massive shock to the system.
It brings them into the game straight away.
Listen up to the DS. It is a baptism of fire.
It opens their eyes to what they've signed up for.
And some of them will not like it.
Right, everything we do as
a Special Forces Operator ultimately culminate in
the application of extreme violence.
It's not nice, it is a by product of what we do.
What you are about to do is called milling.
It's not boxing. It is stood toe-to-toe with an opponent
and punching the living fuck out of them.
Now what you're going to do is take your bergens off
and place them down in front of you.
Get your hats off.
Number five.
First to fight is recruit number five,
ex-Premier League footballer, Jermaine Pennant.
Right, number one.
His opponent is recruit number one,
former Health Secretary, Matt Hancock.
Right, go on, then, get gloved up.
Set of gloves and a headguard, yeah. And get in the mindset, yeah?
Yeah. Controlled aggression, it's all in here.
I've had endless death threats over the vaccine,
but I haven't been punched since I was a teenager.
I've got no idea actually how I'll respond to it.
For this one minute, he's the enemy. Start switching on.
OK. If I'm specially instructed
to fight somebody I'd find that difficult,
but that's the whole purpose of
the course is to follow instructions.
OK. Let's have it, yeah? All right.
Listen in to DS.
So that is part and parcel of it.
Good to go?
I don't think I've ever even got in a fight.
Arguments, yeah, plenty of them.
Channel aggression straight up the middle
and then when you hear stop, you turn it off.
I can handle myself in a fight.
I'm no Mike Tyson but I'll give it a go.
I haven't got my mouthguard in.
Don't let him hit you in the face, then.
Right, come together.
Right, remember this ain't fucking boxing. I don't care what
you've done before. This is straight on punching.
Someone goes to the floor, keep punching until I say stop,
understood? Understood. Right, fists up. Stand by.
Fight!
Go, go, go, go!
Come on, boys.
Throw some fucking punches.
Knock his head off.
Brutal.
RUDY: That's it, let's go five.
Recruit number five, Jermaine, takes
an early advantage. Come on, number one.
Start throwing some punches.
Come on, number one. Number one, Matt, fights back
to stay in the contest.
Take him down, number five, take him down!
Stop! Stand up, get in here. Quickly.
It's amazing, you leave it all out there.
Right, reasonably pathetic fight,
however, number five, you won that one.
Number one, you lost. Get your gloves off, hurry up.
Come on, let's go. Gum shields out.
You OK? Yeah.
Fucking fail, number one.
Good effort, number five.
Right, number 14.
Next up is recruit number 14, singer Siva Kaneswaran.
Number 12.
He will be fighting former Welsh rugby international,
recruit number 12, Gareth Thomas.
Go on, then. Get gloved up. Let's go!
You got your gum shield in? All right, good to go. Throw that helmet on.
I don't like conflict. I avoid conflict.
Keep throwing shots. Warrior mindset, warrior mindset.
The only fight I've ever been in was with my brothers
and that lasted like 20 years and I lost every single one of them,
so no, I, oh, God, I don't like fights.
I just don't even like the thought of combat.
Punch until we say stop. If someone goes down,
keep going. All out aggression.
Even though I'm living with HIV,
I want to be a physical example that I can physically
and mentally do the most difficult challenges put
to any human being on this planet. Gloves up. Fight!
Go!
Good right hand.
Take his head off.
That's aggression.
That's what we're looking for.
Fight back, 14, fight back!
Ohhhh.
Early in the fight, number 12, Gareth,
takes a commanding lead.
Don't give up, 14, do not give up!
That's it, good fight.
He's tired, mate. After his explosive start...
Don't give up, 12. Do not give up!
..recruit number 12, Gareth, is showing signs of fatigue.
Who wants it?
Allowing number 14, Siva, back into the bout.
That's it, 14, come on, 14!
Find that will to win!
Stop!
Stand there.
PANTING.
Right stand up.
Some pride about yourselves, good effort there, both of you.
You just fucking pipped it.
Unfortunately you just fucking didn't put it in at the beginning.
Good effort, though. Go over there, get ungloved.
12, drop your kit down here, stand over there.
Good effort, 14.
That's what we're looking for, all right?
Good effort, 12.
It's milling, get stuck in!
Finish him!
The job as a Special Forces Operator is uncomfortable.
Stop fucking crouching and fight.
You know, I don't take pleasure engaging in violence.
Do not stop punching!
But it's a by-product of going to war.
That's it, don't give up.
You'll see people that are so petrified they don't
want to get involved. Use the pain.
And then you'll see people that are
so hyped up that they then can't turn it off.
And we don't want either of those.
You almost want a non-emotional fighter.
Come on, get rid of him!
There's no place for fear in the Special Forces
because it doesn't lend itself to good decision making.
Stop! Stand there.
That's insane.
Get your mouthguard in. Next to fight...
Quick as you can. ..Is reality TV star... Start switching on.
..recruit number two, James Argent.
I've been massively inspired by Tyson Fury,
he's gone through similar mental health problems like myself.
Drink and drugs and over-eating.
Get your head in the zone. OK. Serious. Sure.
I wouldn't feel comfortable about hitting a woman,
but if I have to do it, I'll do it.
I'm definitely not scared. Warrior mindset.
James' opponent is recruit number six.
Nice and tight. Great British Olympian,
Perri Shakes-Drayton.
Full power. Maximum effort.
Having been an athlete I know pain.
I know heartache.
I know hard work,
but maybe my fears will get in the way of my ability
because I don't feel like I know how to control it.
But I don't let it get in the way,
and I just get on with it and that is the mentality that
I'll be channelling on the course.
Fight! Go, six! Go on, six!
Go forward, number two, not backwards, go forwards.
Lots of punches, number two.
Got a job to do, number two, fucking do it.
Early in the contest recruit number two,
James... Fuck's sake, number two, fucking come back.
..is reluctant to fight.
Get involved, you twat!
Stop fucking dancing and fight. Get your fists up.
Come back, let's fucking swipe.
Fucking dish splash, let's go.
Stop!
With James' refusal to fight back, the DS call an end to the bout.
Stand up with pride. Good effort, number six, you won.
Two, that was fucking shite.
Go and take your gear off and stand over there with the DS.
It's milling, number two, not sparring.
Fucking fail. Take your gum shield out.
Fucking pathetic.
Weak.
Matt, I didn't try, I didn't want to hurt her. Ah, right.
Could you tell? Yeah. I can tell, that's why they were
going mad at me, weren't it? Fucking pathetic.
First time I've taken a punch to the tit. Thank you.
But it's fucking not nice.
It is what it is, well done. Well done.
Arg, are you OK?
It weren't a proper fight.
I just didn't feel like I could steam into Perri.
I got it wrong cos they said I lost and I was weak.
That's not enough for them to kick me out, is it?
You weren't to know. Yeah.
Get on parade! Oh, for fuck. You better be quick.
Oh, I'm busting.
Argie, Argie, come on.
Every recruit will be expected to have great personal discipline.
How do I get this on?
Oh, mate, why have you taken it off? Fuck.
That's the way they dress, their timing,
their punctuality. When I say fucking move, I mean move.
When I say five minutes or six minutes,
I mean six minutes.
That's yours, you bag of fucking shit.
This is all discipline.
Discipline is the foundation to everything in the SF world.
Get it now. Grab that belt, come out here.
Everybody, 30 burpies,
while fucking numbnuts here watches you. Stand and face them.
You've got to be a good individual to be part of
a good team. You should be prepared for whatever comes at you.
What you shouldn't do is turn into
a headless chicken like you haven't got a fucking clue what day it is.
Tell them to keep going, number two. Keep going.
Tell them to keep going! Keep going!
You need to have YOUR shit together
and be able to make sure everybody around you are doing exactly
the same. You're taking care of each other. I'm done. I'm done.
Stand over there.
If you are told to be on parade,
I suggest you go two minutes early.
Start acting like you want to be here.
You fucking move. Right, everybody except number two,
20 press ups, go. Fuck sake.
You stand as you are, number two.
There's various times of punishment and blanket punishment means
the whole team gets punished for somebody's error.
Keep going, tell them to hurry up.
Tell them to hurry up! Hurry up!
That is there to hopefully try
and get the team to gel. Hurry up.
And look after each other better.
So not to allow one individual to create
the crack that gets you punished. It's as simple as that.
Get on your feet.
Stand still.
You fucking move one more time, number two.
When I say go, disappear back to your accommodation,
you run. And I mean run.
Go! Don't be last!
Move with purpose. Get going.
Fucking hell.
Oh, I love Arg, I love Arg, I love Arg.
Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I'm actually sorry.
We're going to need to watch you like a hawk.
No, I know what I've got to do.
You're the only one that's giving us burpies, you nutter.
Make sure this doesn't happen again.
Sort yourself out.
Recruit number two!
Number two, number two, number two. Me?
What?
Down the stairs. Get a fucking move on. Yes, staff.
Having failed both of today's tasks... Get a move on!
..the DS want to find out more about recruit number two,
James Argent.
Hands down by your side. Sit.
Pull your chair in a little bit.
Are you like a naturally smiley person or are you
nervous or what is it? Yeah, I...
Cos it's kind of fucking irritating if I'm honest. Yeah.
It's almost like you're acting the fool.
You're fidgeting. It's fucking annoying.
Mmm.
Why are you here?
Um...
I just kind of felt like this is the right time for me
to take on a challenge like this.
Just over a year ago I was 27 stone.
27 stone? Yeah.
And now I'm like 14 and a half.
I just feel like me being here is,
I feel like a sense of achievement.
The fact that I'm even here and I'm taking part.
This would be like the ultimate for me if I was to do well on this.
You're a good enough kid.
You're a bit of an idiot on the course,
but if you've got the mind to do what you did
with your fitness and to take control of your life,
that's what you're going to need to do here.
How do you feel about discipline?
How do you feel about authority?
How does it feel to you when you're being shouted at?
Are you struggling with it? Yeah,
I suppose it's new to me. Like in certain ways.
I'm going to tell you, fucking grip it and grip it fast. Mmm.
If you want to be here you've really got to buck up.
OK. You either get with
the programme or you're going out that gate.
All right? You can obviously do well.
You've just done amazing things to lose all that weight.
Stay focused, stay disciplined,
don't come here to play the fool cos I'll tell you what,
people will suffer because of you and you will suffer. Yeah.
We haven't got time to piss around.
Wise up and act like you want to be here. Yeah.
Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah, I do want to be here.
Well, you better show it.
You be fucking ready. Guard!
DOOR BANGS.
Stand up.
Hands together. Arms up.
He is nervous.
But I also believe he's playing a bit of a fucking fool.
Well, that's got to stop. And that will stop.
Yeah, I understand. But fucking childish.
As fast as you can, number two. Yes, staff.
I feel like I'm able to take a lot of things in my stride.
I've built up quite a bit of resilience.
I've been through quite a lot and I'd like to think
nothing fazes me too much.
You all right? Yeah.
How, was it?
Yeah, it was all right. They trying to wind you up?
No, it's all good. Dig deep.
Yeah, it's down to me now,
isn't it? I've got to take it seriously.
When I'm out of my comfort zone,
I definitely feel vulnerable for sure.
And I think one of my biggest flaws is that
I always ask for reassurance.
I didn't expect to get a sixth kid,
but I will take you on Arg as one of my own.
I don't know if the DS is gonna give me the reassurance that I need.
It's all good. And I feel like that could affect me a bit.
I just really need to believe in myself more.
You can do it.
You've got it in you.
Next time. Hurry the fuck up!
Break the door down. Get out of there.
Let's go, let's go! Get the fuck out of here!
Mindset is key in the SF world.
GROANING.
Get on your fucking stomach!
If you have a weak mindset... Number one!
..you will fail.
Fucking pathetic. You're like a crab.
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