It may have featured in Sam Pang’s ‘In Memoriam’ segment at the on Sunday evening, but Ant Middleton has revealed some surprising news about the future of . The star-studded military reality show was by Channel Seven earlier this year, despite the network announcing a fifth season at . Chief Instructor Ant Middleton has now addressed the rumours and exclusively confirmed to that the series will return in the near future.

“Of course we’re coming back, ’s gone nowhere. You’ve heard it from the horse’s mouth,” Ant told us on the Logies red carpet. “We just need to make sure we’ve got the right cast, that we’ve got the right location, and with you can’t rush it.

You can’t just go, ‘Right, we need to do it every year’, because it’s about getting things right, it’s about keeping it authentic and keeping it real and keeping it raw. We need the right cast, we need the right location, and we need the right production company on board.” Ant adds that he already has a handful of celebrity contestants in mind for season five, including some of his co-stars.

“James Stewart, Samantha Jade - she’s like a little pocket rocket. I can just envision her going zoom,” he details. “I’m always recruiting, everywhere I go.

Especially at the Logies! “It’s great because I’ll go to the CEO or the head commissioner of and I’ll go, ‘What about this person? What about this person?’. And before you know it they’re stood in front of me in a quive.