Michaella McCollum of ‘Peru Two' to appear on new series of gruelling reality TV show
The reality spin-off series will follow 14 famous faces – which also includes professional boxer Conor Benn, S Club star Hannah Spearritt and the first celebrity deaf recruit, former Love Island contestant Tasha Ghouri – as they endure special forces training in an attempt to make it through SAS selection.
The 2025 line-up includes celebrities from across industries such as former soldier Clark, dancer Louie Spence and former X Factor contestant Lucy Spraggan.
McCollum, now known as one of the 'Peru Two', will also join up with Loos, who claimed that she had an affair with Beckham.
Former Watford player Deeney also joins the line-up and said: 'I'm at a crossroads in my life, so I'm hoping the course can highlight the good and bad in me and hopefully we'll see at the end, that the good outweighs the bad.
'I'm sure the DS (directing staff) will get me irritated very quickly, but they will also know how to nurture and to reshape and probably help me along the way.'
Deeney will be joined by former footballer and broadcaster Adebayo 'The Beast' Akinfenwa, along with a few Love Island veterans including Chloe Burrows (series seven) Adam Collard (series four and eight) and Ghouri (series eight).
Ghouri, who was born deaf, said: 'I'm very excited to actually take on the course and just go for it, push myself and really challenge myself.
'I also want to show people that having a disability makes you no less able – we can also push ourselves, and do crazy challenges if we put our mind to it.'
The line-up is completed with musician Lady Leshurr and drag artist and DJ Bimini, who said: 'People in the UK love to debate gender like it's a concept, not a lived experience. It gets reduced to headlines and toilet talk. I'm doing this to remind them that behind every opinion is a human being.
'The course, the SAS and the Army have got a very masculine stereotype and I've got both elements of masculine and feminine and that's my superpower. Vulnerable, raw, and stronger than ever.'
The celebrities will be taken to Wales where they will immerse themselves in special forces training, led by chief instructor Billy Billingham and his team of directing staff (DS) which includes Jason Fox or 'Foxy', Rudy Reyes and Chris Oliver.
Billingham said: 'This course is not an attendance course, the bar is set high and will not waiver.
'Every recruit is a volunteer who chose to step into our arena. Although many will start, very few will finish and even less will pass. This is not for the weak minded or faint hearted.'
Airing across eight one-hour episodes, the seventh series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins will be available to watch on Channel 4 every Sunday and Monday from 9pm starting on August 3.
McCollum and co-defendant Melissa Reid were caught with 12kg of cocaine and sentenced to six years and eight months in Peru's notorious Ancon 2 prison in 2013, before being released in 2016.
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