Recruit quits Celebrity SAS after failing to keep up with attack – The Irish News

Comedian Shazia Mirza was withdrawn from Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins after she failed to keep up with the other recruits during an assault course in tonight’s episode.

The 45-year-old lagged behind her fellow contestants from the start of the “bee sting” exercise on the Channel 4 reality show, with the director telling her to “keep up” and “stop fucking loitering”.

Eventually, chief instructor Billy Billingham ordered her to hand over her armband, which meant she was withdrawn from the group.

When management asked her to hand over the armband, she told them, “I don’t want to accept it.”

Senior staffer Chris Oliver responded: “You have no choice.”

The exercise required recruits to complete a circuit course in which they submerged themselves in a box filled with water and performed a series of exercises, including star jumps and push-ups.

After Mirza was eliminated from the show, 33-year-old British basketball player Ovie Soko considered quitting the show after a member of the management team laughed at him for wearing Cherry Healey’s fleece after his bust.

As the group returned to their barracks, Soko said to his fellow recruits, “I think I’m going home.

“They get fucked like they just don’t fuck with me.

“Don’t do that, don’t tease me about things that are too small for me, because that’s how I was fucking born.”

He left to tell the directing team he was leaving, with Billingham telling him “something has triggered something that lies deep in your heart today”, before adding: “If you decide you want to leave, we respect that that,” but said he was open to Soko continuing.

Soko then returned to the camp and was questioned by senior staff about where his trust issues came from.

He replied: “Even when I was young I was probably the bad sheep, I have an older brother who is super smart and super intelligent.

“My mother, she’s a tough nut to crack, you know? She grew up in Nigeria and had a difficult relationship with her father, which was not easy for her.

“And that made her have to be in a certain way where there was never really that much affection, it gets the fuck done, and if you don’t do it, the whole family knows about it.

“Every time I made a mistake, it was broadcast in front of all my cousins, in front of all my siblings, and that space for a child is not easy.”

At the beginning of the episode, the celebrities were given the task of getting a VIP out of a car while he was under fire.

This comes after reality star Marnie Simpson, comedian Tez Ilyas and former England rugby captain Chris Robshaw left the show in last Sunday’s episode.

The sixth series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins airs every Sunday and Monday on Channel 4.