If you think modern reality TV is stale and predictable, have you tried watching Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins? Because we’re pretty sure neither you nor we could handle taking part. Okay, we don’t know you, fair, but it’s NOT for the weak and a far cry from lounging around the pool all day in the Love Island villa. The show puts celebrities through grueling, military-style training in some of the most extreme conditions imaginable.
And the new series – launching at the start of next year – promises to be tougher than ever, catapulting the celebs into the middle of a desert in North Africa.
The cast of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins S8 ©Channel 4
Perhaps the only two things hotter than the desert are the Love Island winners taking part: Gabby Allen, the 2025 All Stars champion, and Dani Dyer, the 2018 winner. They join twelve other British and Australian celebrities (a fresh new twist for the new series) in a fierce competition that pushes them beyond any previous challenge.
Stripped of glamour, social media filters, and comforts, the recruits will face a condensed SAS selection course led by Chief Instructor Billy Billingham MBE and his relentless Directing Staff. No entourage to soften the blows — just sweat, grit, and endurance against blistering sand and unforgiving pressure. Stale? Come on.
Gabby and Casey won the second series of All Stars ©ITV Pictures
Speaking of her new reality telly venture, Gabby shared, ‘Most people know me from Love Island, but viewers will be surprised to see how determined I am on the course. Fitness is my life and my job — I work with hundreds of women daily to help them enjoy their wellness journey. I wanted to test my mental strength and challenge myself in a way I never have before. SAS definitely did that.’
Dani – who was recently forced to drop out of Strictly 2025 due to injury – added, ‘I’ve always been a massive fan and wondered if I could do it. I’m nuts but think I’ll be good at it. The biggest challenge will be the mental game because my brain attacks me all the time. I just want to believe in myself more and stop being a negative Nancy.’
Dani Dyer ©ITV
Joining Gabby and Dani in North Africa we have MAFS Australia star Jessika Power, social media personalities Jack Joseph and Cole Anderson-James, Neighbours actors Ryan Moloney and Natalie Bassingthwaite, World Cup-winning rugby player Ben Cohen, Gladiator and Olympian Toby Olubi and international cricketers Graeme Swann and Brad Hodge.
Olympic swimmers Emily Seebohm and Mack Horton are also taking part, as is Home & Away actor Axle Whitehead.
Jessika Power ©Nine
Channel 4 promises the recruits will be ‘put under extreme pressure — every mistake punished, every weakness exposed.’ And let us tell you, that’s the kind of promise we like to see kept here at heatworld 😈
The eighth series of the new series will be available to stream and watch live from January 2026.