Courage
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Apr 7, 2019
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.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Apr 7, 2019
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.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Apr 14, 2019
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.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Apr 21, 2019
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.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Apr 28, 2019
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.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: May 5, 2019 (80 min)
The remaining celebrity recruits face a final, brutal challenge at the El Morado glacier, 3000 metres above sea level.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Apr 20, 2020
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.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Apr 27, 2020
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?
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: May 4, 2020
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?
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: May 11, 2020
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.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: May 18, 2020
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.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: May 25, 2020
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.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Aug 29, 2021
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.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 5, 2021
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.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Sep 12, 2021
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.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Sep 19, 2021 (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.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Sep 26, 2021
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.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 3, 2021
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.
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 4, 2022 (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.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Sep 11, 2022
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.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Sep 18, 2022
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.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Sep 25, 2022
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.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Oct 2, 2022
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.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Oct 9, 2022
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.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Oct 16, 2022
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.
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Sep 26, 2023
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.
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2023
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.
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Oct 8, 2023
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.
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Oct 15, 2023
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.
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Oct 22, 2023
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.
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Oct 29, 2023
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.
Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Nov 5, 2023
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.