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Fox News
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Army veteran: Nobody is more thrilled than me to see Special Forces 'stacking cartel members like cardboard'
Former U.S. Army Special Forces Jim Hanson commends the Trump administration's 'tremendous step' against drug cartels on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.'
Time of India
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Johnny Manziel joins Special Forces reality show after $7.7 million NFL career
Johnny Manziel joins Special Forces reality show after $7.7 million NFL career (Image via Getty) Johnny Manziel, 32, is swapping the football field for something completely different. The former Cleveland Browns quarterback will join the Fox reality show Special Forces: World's Toughest Test. This season was filmed in Morocco, where famous athletes and stars go through very hard tasks that test both the body and the mind. Manziel, once a first-round NFL pick worth $7.7 million, will now face military-style training on TV. Johnny Manziel joins Randall Cobb Eric Decker and other stars on Special Forces Manziel will be part of a star-filled cast. Former Green Bay Packers wide receiver Randall Cobb, ex-New York Jets wide receiver Eric Decker, Olympic gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson, former USWNT captain Christie Pearce, and former NBA player Nick Young will also take part. The show, which first started in 2022, is known for pushing people to their limits with challenges like swimming in icy water, climbing from high places, and surviving rough weather. Filming in Morocco means hot days, cold nights, and tough desert conditions. Contestants must work together but also prove their own strength to stay in the game. According to Fox, the tests are based on real U.S. Special Forces training. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like No annual fees for life UnionBank Credit Card Apply Now Undo Johnny Manziel journey from NFL first round pick to Special Forces contestant Manziel was once one of football's brightest stars. He won the Heisman Trophy in 2012 while playing for Texas A&M and was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in 2014. But his NFL career ended quickly. He played just two seasons before being released in 2016. Also Read: Dallas Cowboys rookie Jaydon Blue carted off after injury at training camp After the NFL, he joined the Canadian Football League, playing for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Montreal Alouettes. In 2019, he signed with the Memphis Express in the Alliance of American Football, but the league closed the same year. He later played for the FCF Zappers before retiring in 2022. Now, instead of throwing passes, Johnny Manziel will be facing one of the hardest reality shows on television and this time, the goal is survival. Catch Rani Rampal's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 4. Watch Here!
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Former Packer Randall Cobb to be featured on 'Special Forces: World's Toughest Test'
Former Green Bay Packers wide receiver Randall Cobb is no longer playing NFL football, but his appearances weekly on national television continue. In addition to his duties as a college football analyst for the SEC Network, Cobb joins the 18-member celebrity cast of Fox's reality show "Special Forces: World's Toughest Test" this fall. Beginning its fourth season and premiering Sept. 25, the show puts the 18 "recruits" through tasks similar to challenges faced in military special forces training. Cobb promoted his upcoming role in the show on his Instagram account Aug. 6. Three of the other 17 cast members on the show are former NFL players Eric Decker, Andrew East and Johnny Manziel. Other former athletes who are part of the adventures in Morocco include Olympic Gold Medal gymnast Shawn Johnson East, former NBA player Nick Young, and World Cup champion and Olympic soccer gold medalist Christie Pearce Rampone. The remainder of the cast includes actor Jussie Smollett, who returns to television six years after allegedly faking a hate crime. Country music artist Jessie James Decker, model Chanel Iman, actress Eva Marcille and internet personalities Mark Estes and Brianna LaPaglia are also listed as participants. Reality show stars Kody Brown, Brittany Cartwright, Gia and Teresa Giudice, and actor Ravi V. Patel round out the group. According to the show's website, Fox says the contestants on the reality series will "endure the extreme circumstances of urban warfare." "Viewers see the recruits face the harshest of environments that simulate the highly classified selection process, pushing themselves in the ultimate test of their physical, mental and emotional resilience and revealing the celebrities' deepest and truest character," Fox said. Morocco's desert landscape will add to the difficulty of the training exercises. Waukesha native Nick Vilall was part of the cast in season two and was one of three cast members to complete every challenge. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Former Packer Cobb featured on 'Special Forces: World's Toughest Test' Solve the daily Crossword
The Irish Sun
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Cowardice of C-listers on Celeb SAS: WDW is bad enough – but the bigger failure was the ‘interrogation' of Rebecca Loos
Read on for Ally's thoughts on MasterChef's return and the biggest TV lies and delusions of the month ALLY ROSS Cowardice of C-listers on Celeb SAS: WDW is bad enough – but the bigger failure was the 'interrogation' of Rebecca Loos THE worst thing about Love Island contestants? They never go away. Advertisement 7 Channel 4's Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins has been lumbered with Love Island contestants Credit: PA 7 While the heroic Special Forces instructors are quite rightly looking for 'people with grit' Channel 4's production team are ruthlessly hunting down over-sharing exhibitionists Credit: PA They either reappear on the winter version or they start polluting every other reality format in the schedule with their me, me, me schtick. With TV's worst-affected show currently being Channel 4's Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, which has lumbered itself with Adam Collard, Chloe Burrows and Tasha Ghouri, who are convinced the public know them best for. . . . 'being a bit of a lothario', 'snogging lots of boys' and just generally acting the a***hole on Love Island. A spectacular delusion, given 99.99 per cent of the public probably wouldn't recognise them if they abseiled into their bathtubs wearing a name tag. Which only goes to highlight the conflict of priorities at the heart of this show. Advertisement Pointlessly famous Because, while Foxy, Billy and the heroic Special Forces instructors are quite rightly looking for 'people with grit and determination who can make their country proud', Channel 4's production team are ruthlessly hunting down over-sharing exhibitionists who will bury their country's reputation under 100 tonnes of self-pity and too much bloody information. Just how badly the SAS boys lost that battle of wills can best be gauged by this year's line-up. As well as the three Love Island contestants, others wearing the tell-tale smirk of the pointlessly famous include: Louie Spence, S Club's Hannah Spearritt, Harry Clark from The Traitors, 'Peru Two' drug mule Michaella McCollum and the compulsory drag queen whose real name is Thomas George Graeme Hibbitts, so you can probably understand why the poor frightened little soul decided to call himself Bimini Bon-Boulash. Boxer Conor Benn is also present, along with footballers Troy Deeney and Adebayo Akinfenwa who should probably be slightly wary about 'TV personality and yoga instructor' Rebecca Loos, last seen bringing a pig to climax on Channel 5's The Farm, back in 2005, who remains stuck in a Catch-22 situation all of her own making. She desperately wants to move on from her alleged affair with David Beckham, but cannot shut the hell up about him. Advertisement A problem that wasn't helped by instructor Chris Oliver, who invited Loos to talk about him again, during an 'interrogation', with the words: 'I'd be interested to get your take on it.' But then missed a trick, once she'd finally exhausted herself on the subject, by failing to add: 'No, not Beckham, I was talking about the Channel 5 pig.' Celeb SAS Who Dares Wins full line up revealed with ex Premier League footballer, pop icon and THREE Love Islanders Say what you like about her, though, Rebecca Loos is far from the most brittle member of this feeble celebrity line-up which started to disintegrate almost as soon as the opening credits were done. First to go was Hannah Spearritt, who didn't even reach for the third ad break, let alone the stars. She was swiftly followed by Louie Spence and then the two Love Island girls who got the shortest shrift of all, from Chris Oliver, after voluntarily withdrawing on the way to the Hang Tough challenge. 'What do you mean VW?' he screamed. 'You haven't fookin' done anything yet.' Advertisement You could tell the production team were also livid and probably angry with themselves, for choosing such obvious quitters, as they decided to replay the contestants' opening words of defiance straight after they handed in their armbands. Hannah Spearritt: 'I'm pretty determined. I wouldn't say I give up easily.' Louie Spence: 'I'm a survivor.' Chloe Burrows: 'It's really hard for me to say what it would take for me to VW.' 7 Chloe just couldn't go on after struggling on the climb Advertisement 7 Tasha gave up just a few minutes after Chloe 7 Rebecca Loos cannot shut the hell up about Beckham Credit: PA It is? Then I'll say it for her. It took a tiny slope. Not even a hill, a slope was just too much of an obstacle to overcome, so Chloe quit and hopefully exited public life, just as John Barrowman did last year. Two acts of cowardice that'll hopefully jolt C4 into reviewing their recruitment procedure as all the tears and histrionics of these 'TV personalities' tend to obscure the fact there is actually a contest of sorts going on in the background. Barring injury, the eventual winner will probably be Conor Benn, Troy Deeney or Adam Collard, but definitely not rapper Lady Leshurr, who made a 26ft leap into an Anglesey harbour look like the annual Birdman of Bognor challenge. Advertisement She possibly provided the soundbite of the series so far, though, when Chris Oliver eventually hauled her out of the Irish Sea and asked: 'How did you find that?' 'Traumatic and salty.' And if that's not also the title of Louie Spence's autobiography, I'll hand my armband in as well. Great sporting insights LYNSEY HOOPER: 'I've lost count of the number of corners Rovers have had. It's 17.' David Croft: 'The one significant change is actually the second significant change.' And Mike Atherton: 'India 117-8. Three wickets lost yesterday, four this morning.' (Compiled by Graham Wray) SHOW'S GON OFF THE BOIL BBC1 introduced us to the best-named MasterChef contestant of all time, this week. He's Gon, from Thailand. Advertisement 7 MasterChef has returned to TV screens with a new series filmed before hosts Gregg Wallace and John Torode were dismissed last month Credit: Unpixs As opposed to Gregg and John, who are gone from pretty much everywhere. Also missing, from Wednesday evening's audience, was our ever-indignant Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, who described BBC1's decision to go ahead with the MasterChef series as 'absolutely appalling'. A slight step-up, incidentally, on the way Lisa recently described the Palestinian terrorist organisation Hamas, responsible for murdering 1,195 Israelis, on October 7, who were merely 'appalling'. Personally speaking, though, I cannot summon Lisa's levels of fury over MasterChef any more than I could avoid spluttering when John said: 'Get your mousselines out, Penelope', during the guest judge round. Advertisement For Gregg and John are clearly a pair of oafs who should've been reeled in or sacked years ago, just as surely as EastEnders should avoid repeating the finger-wagging lecture about Joel's toxic masculinity which preceded Wednesday's show. Unless, of course, the BBC wants to look like the most self- righteous hypocrites on the planet. But boycotts are for students and watching MasterChef is punishment enough for any man. So I took my medicine on Wednesday night and immediately found myself in a battle with acute drowsiness, during the mystery box test. The moment John started fretting about the texture of yet another risotto, though? I was . . . what's the word? Gone. Unexpected morons in the bagging area THE Chase, Bradley Walsh: 'How many miles long is the Daytona 500 motor race?' Paul Sinha: '250.' Tipping Point, Ben Shephard: 'Creme fraiche literally translates from French to English as fresh what?' Lee: 'Yoghurt.' And Ben Shephard: 'The first summer Olympics in modern history was held in 1896 in which Greek capital city?' Malik: 'Rome.' Random TV irritations ARROGANT Tipping Point: Lucky Stars contestant Matt Dawson ordering Ben Shephard to 'move on' rather than saying pass. Advertisement The preening self-satisfaction of GMB's holiday cover pundit Nels Abbey, whose stupidity manages to make Ed Balls look like Jeremy bloody Paxman. And drag queen Bimini Bon-Boulash claiming to be 'flying the flag for misfits', on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins which, given there's a bloke in a skirt on nearly every mainstream show, is the very last thing he's doing. He's flying the rainbow flag for establishment cliches. TV gold THE genius and extraordinary back story of Billy Joel getting the treatment they richly deserve from Sky Documentaries' brilliant six- hour, two-parter And So It Goes. Kevin Rowland putting the Jocky Wilson debate to bed on BBC2's hugely enjoyable Dexys At The BBC (it was deliberate). Love Island's Unseen Bits playing The Addams Family music to the arrival of the islanders' relatives on ITV2. SAS: Who Dares Wins legend Billy Billingham lacing the question, 'What does 'Bimini' do?' with more contempt than you'd ever imagine four words could carry. And the Sky Sports presenter, late on Sunday, who said: 'Making their return to the Scottish Premiership, Full Cock.' Before she corrected herself, rather unnecessarily in my opinion. 'Falkirk.' Lookalike of the week 7 This week's winner is Mahdi, from Destination X, and Sergeant Stavros from Kojak Credit: Supplied Sent in by Gordon Montgomery. Advertisement
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Sister Wives' Kody Brown Breaks Instagram Silence With 'Special Forces' News: Fans Outraged
'Sister Wives' Kody Brown Breaks Instagram Silence With 'Special Forces' News: Fans Outraged originally appeared on Parade. Sister Wives star Kody Brown has ended his social media silence to announce he's joining Season 4 of FOX's Special Forces: World's Toughest Test. The series puts celebrities through grueling military-style training led by an elite team of former Special Forces operatives. But while Brown seemed excited about the reveal, fans were far less enthusiastic about the news. On Aug. 6, Kody posted an Instagram reel teasing his appearance on the FOX series. He added in a caption, "This was the most exciting experience of an age!" "Tune in and watch me and my peers suffer! Wanna see me cry? No…like full on sobbing!" he asked. The reality star last posted on Instagram in March 2024 to honor the life of his late son, Garrison Brown. It has been 17 months since he last shared any news or photographs on the social media site, and he has only posted on Instagram a total of 13 times since opening an account in 2017. Parade Daily🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 However, fans were quick to lash out at Kody's announcement, calling out past claims on Sister Wives that he couldn't leave wife Robyn Brown and his family for extended periods. Many pointed to a particularly controversial moment in 2020, when he refused to travel with then-wife Christine Brown to New Jersey for their daughter Ysabel's critical spine surgery. Now, viewers are slamming him for seemingly having no issue stepping away to film an entire season of a reality show. "He could leave Robyn and the little kids for this? But he couldn't leave them to be present for [Ysabel]'s surgery?!" questioned one follower. A second wrote, "Wow, he left His beautiful, shy wife? thought he couldn't be away from the tenders for more than 3 days?" "Too bad [second wife] Janelle Brown isn't on it, cause she'd beat him on day one. She's the tough one," a third Sister Wives viewer claimed. A fourth concluded, "This post backfired immediately." Season 4 of the FOX series will feature the following celebrities from across all genres of entertainment. The series stars Kody, RHONJ star Teresa Giudice and her daughter Gia Giudice; RHOA star Eva Marcille, The Valley's Brittany Cartwright, and actor Jussie Smollett. Also competing are Eric Decker and wife Jessie James Decker, podcaster Brianna "Chickenfry" LaPaglia, Mark Estes, Olympian Shawn Johnson and her husband Andrew East, model Chanel Iman, actor Ravi V. Patel, Olympian Christie Pearce Rampone, NBA star Nick Young, and former NFL players Randall Cobb and Johnny Manziel. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 4 premieres Thursday, Sept. 25, at 9 p.m. on Fox. 'Sister Wives' Kody Brown Breaks Instagram Silence With 'Special Forces' News: Fans Outraged first appeared on Parade on Aug 7, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Aug 7, 2025, where it first appeared. Solve the daily Crossword
