Haven't really got into this series either.
Also just found out that Ant Middleton did a Bear Grylls on the Everest program and got choppered off the mountain for a few days to stay in a hotel leaving his team up there 🙄
Caught a few of this series, my problem is that it is actually quite dull, people running with a log - boring, people lying in water - boring, crossing a gorge on wires - hey lets make that potentially exciting task boring as well!! The question sessions bag on head, chat chat - boring, want to make it stressful tie them buck naked and blindfolded to a chair for four hours and douse them in petrol.
Obviously difficult tasks but not much excitement in it tbh and everyone has a back story. Jesus if you’re carrying that much baggage don’t fanny around on a tv programme go and see someone (or get another complicated tattoo on your neck and hands).
The mandatory backstory pisses me off
The introduction of a character purely to bin them off pisses me off
The ep1-4 bromance pisses me off
The lack of likeable people pisses me off
The cold water immersion is suitably brutal
Scotland looks ace though and I'll keep watching
Hehe, yeah Scotland's definitely the winner so far!
Mrs Kilo wanted to watch the final one last night, more tedium.
I particularly liked how the nice, middle class, olympian lady got another nice long soliloquy opportunity but the girl who beat her and didn’t seem to have had a privileged life got hoiked off sharpish
nice, middle class, olympian lady
You know she's in remission from cancer?
[edit] to elaborate - she was the biggest winner for me, one of the oldest entrants, four kids, recent cancer treatment, just kept going.
Yes I do, it was part of the back story repeated a few times.
It is a bit odd how they now pick a handful and only show their stories.
That last test seemed a bit unfair to the girl. She was shorter so had to go down further to reach the bottom!
Anyone watching the celeb version?
So far, Katie Price is being bullied off the show for being Katie Price, but claiming she wants to be broken down to reveal and fix all her faults. Will they keep her?
And Ant reveals Tony Bellou to be a borderline pschyo within 12 hrs.
Show has potential!
Entertaining.
Ant is a dick tho.
I don’t normally watch this but ended up thoroughly enjoying it. Katie Price is an admin nightmare and I think they’ll end up keeping her as she is good entertainment.
f**ing Ant is a f**ing dick though.
FTFY. Even my kids wondered how one man can swear so much.
Last nights observations:
Katie Price is a prat and is her own worst enemy, I think she’ll go.
Tony Bellew is a ticking time bomb, the only question is if Ant will be able to resist pressing his buttons.
Joey Essex will do much better than most expect.
Joey Essex will do much better than most expect.
interstingly.... the show’s IMDB page lists the cast..... and the number of episodes they are in 🙂
Joey Essex will do much better than most expect.
Yup he said as much on R2 himself.
Tony Bellew is a ticking time bomb, the only question is if Ant will be able to resist pressing his buttons.
Nah, Bellew is just your average angry bloke who loves a tear up (as evidenced with his boxing career). Its John Fashanu you need to be worried of, he is genuinely nuts!
Tony Bellew is a ticking time bomb, the only question is if Ant will be able to resist pressing his buttons.
By the looks of last night, he's really relishing the prospect of doing precisely that.
Real dilemma with Katie Price - keep her in and see if she can be changed, or get rid before she becomes a nightmare for the others
She does seem to have an unfair advantage when they're all being made to do press-ups
I enjoyed it, I think perhaps Tony Bellew isn't quite the nutter he appears to be, the show will be cut to focus on what makes them interesting. I'm not saying he's not agro, but IMO his mistake was going into a task when he was going to get punched repeatedly as if it was a boxing match (easy mistake to make) he was building himself up for it in the same way he would boxing, and he didn't punch whoever it was ( I think it was Fash) I think whoever it was got a good punch in and he shoved them away.
The real nutter has yet to relieve herself. Mark my words Skelton is the one to watch, she's absolutely crackers, in a good way, but she is fearless and ruthlessly focused.
f**ing Ant is a f**ing dick though.
Yep, can't stand him. He's an angry little Motivations Poster who fancies himself as Tony Robbins.
Tony Bellew is a ticking time bomb, the only question is if Ant will be able to resist pressing his buttons.
I'd like to see that, Ant is a bit of a Bully, he loves winding people up before screaming and shouting that into submission. I know "former Tier one Special forces" or whatever he says, but he's going to lose a fist fight with Bellew in about half a second.
I’d like to see that, Ant is a bit of a Bully, he loves winding people up before screaming and shouting that into submission. I know “former Tier one Special forces” or whatever he says, but he’s going to lose a fist fight with Bellew in about half a second.
well Ant is good at beating up police officers, perhaps he fancies his chances
They somehow always seem to recruit people who’ve never actually watched any previous series of SAS:WDW. People seem surprised at their accommodation, some of the tasks they get set, they seem to have little idea of what they’re in for.
Same with The Apprentice though, it’s like none of them are aware of the basics behind each task.
Maybe it’s just the editing?
A friend/colleague is one of the PD's. I get the impression that it really is pretty hardcore, easy to assume from watching it that you could do an hour of splashing about in cold water then run up a hill while someone shouts at you. No worse than that time you did park run in December and it rained but was character building and you all went for hot chocolate afterwards right? A bit harder when you realize you'll be in the water for a long time, won't get dry clothes between activities and that 5 minute run you saw on the last series is a actually 10k and going to take you 2 hours as you're cold wet and carrying a backpack and gun, and there's no shelter and no hot chocolate afterwards.
It has to be massively edited, otherwise everyone would be asking why moley (no.21?) keeps getting pulled for a chat, when he’s breezing through all the various tests. It does seem odd that they focus so closely on a couple of them, when in the background you are seeing people leaving who have not even featured in any interviews or bollockings etc.
Possible that a lot withdraw their consent to be in the program after quitting.
Sanitised dumbed down version for celbs. It's bad enough watching the normal version of ego trippers, but this takes it to a whole new low
Sanitised dumbed down version for celbs. It’s bad enough watching the normal version of ego trippers, but this takes it to a whole new low
Oh I don't know. I appreciate its edited for telly, but that kind of tear down is what someone like Katie Price needs, its whether it sticks is the issue. Here she can walk out, but worse people have walked out tall / turned to dust after a spell in the forces they can't just walk away from. Just imagine if she walked out to live a less entitled and gracious life never to be seen again whilst she looks after her kids, how happy we'd all be!
Tony's the same but different. These people often respond to a hard nut mentor after growing a respect for them and themselves during the breakdown / build up process. Having a punch up with Ant might educate them both, but I'm pretty sure like Ramsey, Ant has a legal Do Not Assault arrangement the guests have signed.
Its how they respond after they leave which counts.
Fashanu is a total nutter.
Fash has a mountain to climb with far too much baggage. The man needs an emotional Sherpa to even start making small changes.
'Was I a bully? Yes, I think I was'
Not the day he got bullied by big Nev.
I used to go and watch the Crazy gang with my Dad, mainly because as an aspiring GK you could watch the best in the premier league close up at Plough Lane. Typical MO was that early on Wimbledon got a free kick, lumped it in the box and Fashanu and Eric Young would pile in on the goalie to dissuade him from coming off his line in future.
So vs Everton about 5 minutes in and true to form......they pile in on big Nev. And Fashanu bounces off and ends up on his arse. Big Nev puts down a massive mitt, helps him up and sends him on his way. He'd have had more luck that day stood on the A3 trying to stop lorries.
Nev would have shoved that tyre up Bellew's arse as well, and then drop kicked them both back over their own line.
Shame Anthea bowed out really. Katie Price too, I mean, she is a dick and looks like a trout but she was really singled out I thought.
That boxer dude is a complete idiot too. But yeah, Fashnu has issues.
Helen Skelton ftw.
Joey Essex is being surprisingly un-dickish, I think...
Katie Price too
There was a tiny part of me that thought this could be her moment of enlightenment and redemption. Nope, she's gone home for a little more self indulged entitlement and will remain the thing she's become forever.
I'm waiting for Bellow to clock Ant, it can't be far away. I'm not looking at the spoilers by Joey and Helen already looking like closet favourites.
Penultimate round of the Celebrity SAS. Some stunning scenery although I'm not sure that being submerged for 5 mins in the freezing cold waterfall is my first idea of fun...
