{"id":312914,"date":"2025-08-02T21:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T21:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312914\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T21:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T21:39:17","slug":"celebrity-sas-who-dares-wins-2025-series-filmed-in-wales-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312914\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity SAS Who Dares Wins 2025 series filmed in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “unforgiving” Welsh terrain gives competitors on Channel 4’s new series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins a true experience of special forces training, according to the show’s chief instructor Billy Billingham.<\/p>\n

Other series have been filmed in locations including Vietnam, Chile and Morocco but celebrity contestants like dancer Louie Spence find themselves on an Anglesey beach in Sunday’s opening episode.<\/p>\n

“It’s beautiful, of course, but it’s unforgiving. It’s a great test ground,” said Billingham.<\/p>\n

“It’s a birthplace of the special forces, the SAS, where we do all our training in Wales.”<\/p>\n

Contestants include former footballer Troy Deeney, TV’s The Traitors winner Harry Clark, drag artist and DJ Bimini, and musicians like Lucy Spraggan among others.<\/p>\n

“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,” said Billingham.<\/p>\n

“You can have four seasons in one day.<\/p>\n

“It sounds exotic to go to New Zealand and Australia and all these places. <\/p>\n

“But it was great to come home. It offers everything we want,” he told Lucy Owen on BBC Radio Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While one of the previous series of the non-celebrity version of the show was filmed in Wales, it is also the latest location for the seventh series of the show with celebrity recruits.<\/p>\n

Billingham would not reveal any spoilers but said contestants’ “true character” is exposed once they are pushed to what they perceive to be their limit – and beyond.<\/p>\n

Programme makers said the recruits faced the “hardest course yet, in the most gruelling stages of SAS selection”.<\/p>\n

Led by Billingham and directing staff ex-special forces soldiers Jason Fox, Rudy Reyes and Chris Oliver, the recruits use a speed boat to stage a hostage rescue mission in Sunday’s opening episode on Channel 4 from 21:00 BST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The “unforgiving” Welsh terrain gives competitors on Channel 4’s new series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-312914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114961341731116272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}