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FATIMA WHITBREAD MBE – RECRUIT NUMBER 5

Age: 61 From: Essex Occupation: Javelin Olympic Gold Medallist The oldest ever Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins recruit, Fatima, wants to prove she still has the physical fitness and mental stamina to participate and succeed on the course. Growing up in a children's home after being abandoned in a flat

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

JONATHAN BROOM-EDWARDS MBE – RECRUIT NUMBER 6

Age: 34 From: Loughborough Occupation: Paralympic High Jumper Being a parasport athlete, Jonathan is always looking for new challenges in his career and prove himself to be as capable as any other Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins recruit. He has been training for the course by listening to screaming

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

AMBER GILL – RECRUIT NUMBER 7

Age: 25 From: Newcastle Occupation: TV Personality & Influencer Amber wants to shift the public’s preconceptions of an influencer. Believing people consider her superficial, she wants to demonstrate her real values through the Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins course. Regularly finding herself the

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

AJ PRITCHARD – RECRUIT NUMBER 8

Age: 27 From: Stoke on Trent Occupation: Professional Dancer Disciplined from his career as a dancer, AJ is used to pushing his body to its physical limits and has competed since he was a teenager. His confidence, however, was recently knocked by a freak accident he caused, which injured his partner

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

CURTIS PRITCHARD – RECRUIT NUMBER 9

Age: 26 From: Stoke on Trent Occupation: Professional dancer and TV Personality Having lost the competitive edge his older brother AJ has during his teenage years and sometimes putting others ahead of his own ambitions, Curtis wants to use this opportunity to show he is also capable of pushing

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

JADE JONES OBE – RECRUIT NUMBER 10

Age: 29 From: Wales Occupation: Taekwondo Olympic Gold Medallist A double Olympic gold Taekwondo champion, Jade had a disappointing result in the Tokyo Olympics, being knocked out in the first round. She would like to use the Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins course to show herself she still has the

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

SHANNON COURTENAY – RECRUIT NUMBER 11

Age: 29 From: Hertfordshire Occupation: Professional Boxer Before discovering Boxing, Shannon was badly behaved growing up, falling in with the wrong crowd, drinking and smoking. She has struggled with authority in the past and wants to make sure she can control the aggression that is vital to her

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

MAISIE SMITH – RECRUIT NUMBER 12

Age: 21 From: Essex Occupation: Actress The youngest recruit, 21-year-old Maisie has spent her life in the public eye and finds it a challenge to separate herself from her Eastenders character. She wants to find her own voice on the Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins course and gain some confidence in

31 Aug 22 Press Pack Article

DWAIN CHAMBERS – RECRUIT NUMBER 13

Age 44 From: London Occupation: Olympic Sprinter Dwain was caught using performance enhancing drugs at the peak of his sprinting career, resulting in a two year ban on competing and huge reputational damage. He wants to prove the mistake was unrepresentative of him and that he still has what it