S Club 7 singer Hannah Spearritt has withdrawn from Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins in the first episode of the latest series.
Spearritt, 44, who is from Gorleston, threw in the towel alongside former TV dancer Louie Spence.
The Channel 4 military reality show opened with the 14 celebrity recruits hooded and standing on a breakwater, before they were asked for their identities by chief instructor Billy Billingham.
Hannah Spearritt is from Great Yarmouth (Image: Pete Dadds/Channel 4/PA Wire) He then led them on two tasks, the first to plunge 26ft into the water and swim to intercept a boat, which picked them up, and the second to rescue three hostages from a building before blowing it up with a grenade.
Before the second challenge began, Spearritt handed over her number tag to directing staff, saying: “I’m done, I’m sorry, I’ve reached a point”.
In a pre-recorded interview, which was played after her withdrawal, she said: “I don’t think I’ll go on the first day,” adding she “wouldn’t forgive myself”.
Instructors Rudy Reyes, Jason Fox (Foxy), Billy Billingham and Chris Oliver (Image: Pete Dadds/Channel 4/PA Wire) Spearritt was joined by fellow Great Yarmouth celebrity, drag queen Bimini Bom Boulash, who competed in RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.
In an interview before the first task, Bon Boulash said the show would be easy to go on after growing up as a queer person in Norfolk.
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The show sees celebrities enter SAS training, where they are not eliminated and are instead culled by the directing staff or able to withdraw themselves, with those who remain at the end declared the winners.
The rest of the celebrity recruits are made up of ex-drug mule Michaella McCollum, former footballer Adebayo Akinfenwa, Strictly Come Dancing 2025 runner-up Tasha Ghouri, former The Traitors winner Harry Clark, rapper Lady Leshurr, boxer Conor Benn, singer Lucy Spraggan, and ex-Love Island contestants Chloe Burrows and Adam Collard.
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins continues on Channel 4 on Monday at 9pm.