The winners of Channel 7’s excessive actuality present SAS Australia are selected Wednesday in a finale that entails the celeb contestants recording “loss of life movies” — an acceptable activity given we’ll most likely by no means see them within the highlight once more.
After 10 days, solely 4 stars stay on the military-style course. Olympian Matthew Mitcham, footy commentator Abbey Holmes, Thai cave rescue diver Craig Challen and celeb chiropractor Tim Robards all combat to the loss of life to move the ultimate problem. However not everybody succeeds.
One is culled midway by. One other is rejected on the end line and compelled to stroll down a mountain alone whereas everybody else flies away in a helicopter. It’s feel-good TV at its best.
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It has been a brutal time on the course. Away from creature comforts, the celebrities have needed to adapt – pushing themselves mentally and bodily to make it this far. The toughest half?
“I simply realised I went 9 days with out moisturising,” Matthew Mitcham gasps.
It’s inspiring to see this type of braveness and resilience from our nation’s biggest athletes.
The troopers solely have a couple of hours left to make good on their promise to bodily and psychologically break the celebrities. They devise a three-stage plan.
Underneath the duvet of darkness, they storm the sleeping quarters and fireplace stun grenades. Then they seize the celebrities and lock them in a concrete cell — leaving them certain and hooded for hours.
“Whenever you get captured … it’s a horrible, disgusting feeling,” head soldier Ant Middleton says.
What a good way to finish a TV collection — with a finale of horrible, disgusting emotions. And that’s not all, people!
“Every recruit will now be compelled to endure essentially the most confronting expertise any SAS soldier will ever face: a loss of life message to their family members,” the voiceover man gleefully informs us.
Ant chains the celebrities to a chair one-by-one and whispers menacingly.
“This might probably be your final video message that your loved ones ever sees,” he sneers. “Look into the digital camera and provides a message to whoever you need.”
First up is Abbey. She’s informed to ship a transparent message with out getting emotional. The hood is ripped off her head and he or she instantly spirals into hysterics.
“I really like you, I really like you guys a lot, you already know who you might be, each certainly one of you!” she sobs by huffs and puffs, tears streaming down her face.
She carries on like this till Ant whacks the hood again over her head. Lastly, some peace and quiet. Then Matthew’s de-hooded and we’re handled to extra hysterical wailing. His hood is promptly reapplied.
Tim and Craig present zero emotion of their loss of life movies. It’s comprehensible. In any case, Craig has needed to suppress emotion by harrowing life-and-death situations just like the Thai cave rescue. And, simply as harrowing, Tim bravely endured a string of elimination ceremonies on The Bachelor.
Then it’s on to Stage Two: a 5 kilometre run adopted by a cliff climb. Tim and Matthew breeze forward whereas Craig lags behind. Struggling by exhaustion and a concern of heights, Abbey comes lifeless final. She’s promptly culled from the competitors in the course of the desert. A minimum of she has a loss of life video to take dwelling as a enjoyable memento?
Stage Three entails extra bodily exercise. That is the unhealthy factor in regards to the SAS Australia finales. It’s often simply the boring celebrities who’re left and there are not any extra scandals or soiled secrets and techniques to exploit out of them.
Tim, Matthew and Craig efficiently carry out a hostage rescue and make it to the end line. However right here’s the catch: ending the course doesn’t imply you move the course.
Whereas Tim and Matthew are accepted, Craig Challen — who on the age of 57 simply scaled a mountain to finish what’s touted as the toughest navy take a look at on this planet — is rejected.
Including insult to damage, Tim and Matthew are invited into the helicopter with the remainder of the troopers they usually all fly away, leaving Craig to stroll down the mountain alone.
It serves as a reminder to all celebrities who’re at the moment being approached by producers for subsequent 12 months’s season of SAS Australia: Simply do Anh’s Brush With Fame as a substitute.
