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Where was Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins 2025 filmed?

Where was Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins 2025 filmed?

The new series features 14 celebrities, including ex-footballer Adebayo Akinfenwa, ex-Love Island contestant Tasha Ghouri and S Club 7's Hannah Spearritt.
These celebrities will be tested on the Channel 4 show, as they are put through "the most gruelling phase of Special Forces selection".
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Celebrity SAS will once again feature an elite team of ex-Special Forces soldiers - Chief Instructor Billy Billingham and his team of Directing Staff (DS) – Foxy (Jason Fox), Rudy Reyes and Chris Oliver.
They will put the stars through their paces in the new series as they are stripped of their home comforts, families, agents and social media.
Channel 4 added: "Together the DS will push the celebrity recruits even further and teach them the key skills to survive.
"There will be no room for mistakes as these celebrity recruits face the hardest course yet, in the most gruelling stages of SAS selection.
"The fourteen famous faces will abandon their glamourous and luxurious lifestyles to immerse themselves in the punishing Special Forces training environment.
"This year's course will be physically demanding and psychologically gruelling; all but a few who take part will fail but who will make it to the end and eventually pass?"
The celebrities taking part in the seventh series of Celebrity SAS (in 2025) are:
This year's series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins was filmed in Wales - "the home of the first phase of SAS selection".
Sunday's (August 3) opening episode takes place on an Anglesey beach (in North Wales), according to the BBC.
Billingham, speaking to Lucy Owen on BBC Radio Wales, said: "It's beautiful, of course, but it's unforgiving. It's a great test ground.
"It's a birthplace of the special forces, the SAS, where we do all our training in Wales."
Previous series of Celebrity SAS have been filmed in locations including Vietnam, Chile and Morocco.
But Billingham said it was great to finally be "home" for a series.
He said: "We've been wanting to come home, as we call it, for a long time, because the fact that they're just in Wales is a test in itself.
"You can have four seasons in one day.
"It sounds exotic to go to New Zealand and Australia and all these places.
"But it was great to come home. It offers everything we want."
This isn't the first time Wales has been used by Channel 4 for the show, with a series of the non-celebrity version being filmed there in the past.
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Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins 2025 will start on Sunday (August 3) at 9pm on Channel 4.
The seventh series will feature eight one-hour episodes and can be streamed on Channel 4 online or watched live every Sunday and Monday.
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