Channel 4 has just dropped the most explosive line-up yet for the new series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins – and this time it’s war. Team UK versus Team Australia, national pride on the line, in the scorching hell of North Africa.
Leading the British charge? None other than Love Island queen and new mum Dani Dyer-Bowen – wife of West Ham and England striker Jarrod Bowen – who has swapped sequins and salsa for frostbite, fist-fights and freezing interrogation cells.
The 29-year-old, who dramatically pulled out of this year’s Strictly Come Dancing to protect her pregnancy, is throwing herself straight into television’s toughest gauntlet.
“I’m a massive fan of the show,” Dani admitted. “I’ve always watched it thinking ‘Could I do that?’ I’m nuts, but I want to find out. Physically I think I’ve got this – it’s my head that attacks me all the time. I just want to stop being a negative Nancy and make myself proud.”
She won’t be alone in the pain. Joining her on Team UK:
- Cricket legend and jungle survivor Graeme Swann
- World Cup-winning rugby titan Ben Cohen
- Olympic bobsleigh Gladiator Toby Olubi
- Viral comedy duo Jack Joseph & Cole Anderson-James
- Former Love Island star Gabby Allen
Across the sand, Team Australia is stacked with soap stars and swimming royalty:
- Neighbours icons Ryan Moloney (Toadie) and Natalie Bassingthwaighte
- Married At First Sight firebrand Jessika Power
- Home and Away’s Axle Whitehead
- Olympic gold-medal swimmers Emily Seebohm and Mack Horton
- Aussie cricketing great Brad Hodge
For the first time ever, the eight-part series will pit nation against nation under the merciless gaze of chief instructor Billy Billingham MBE and his unforgiving directing staff: Jason “Foxy” Fox, Rudy Reyes and Chris Oliver.
Billy warned: “North Africa has its own challenges – now throw the DS into the mix. Standby for tears, pain and glory. Their national pride is on the line. Who has the minerals to rise from the ashes? Who dares wins.”
There are no public votes, no campmate trials, no prize money – just pure, unfiltered suffering. Celebrities aren’t voted off; they’re either medically withdrawn, voluntarily withdraw (VW), or broken by the staff. Only those still standing at the end can call themselves winners.
Graeme Swann summed it up: “I want my kids to see that even the hardest tasks can be done if you just keep putting one foot in front of the other.”
The most savage celebrity endurance test on television returns to Channel 4 in January 2026.
One question remains: when the desert heat, the ice baths and the beasting gets too much… will Dani Dyer-Bowen and Jarrod Bowen’s wife still be standing tall for Blighty?
Who dares wins. Let the carnage begin.