Andrea McLean has revealed that she once "fell apart" whilst being put through her paces on a gruelling reality TV show. The Loose Women star opened up to Laura Hamilton about the experience on yesterday's Mile Fly Club podcast (September 22) and explained how she demanded for the episode never to be shown to the public. In 2019, Andrea appeared on the celebrity version of SAS Who Dares Wins, but had to pull out of the physically demanding show due to hypothermia.
However, she also endured another traumatic experience, involving a mock kidnapping. Andrea had a hood pulled over her head and was transported to an unknown location via boat. Once she reached her destination, someone ripped the bag off her face and stared into her "soul" as if they "hated" her.
In that moment, she said they appeared to be like somebody else from her past who'd previously looked at her in a similar way. Andrea then explained she later "fell apart" during a "fighting part" of the experience, but this didn't go unnoticed by the show's directing staff (DS). Andrea said: "It was like feelings that just exploded out of me.
What's interesting...
when I look on the TV show now, I have no expression on my face. You would not know that's what's happening. "Then we, as part of the programme, there's a fighting part to it where you have to.
..and I fell apart during it and the DS saw that, and they hauled me in for interrogation and basically really intensely interrogated me over my reaction to what had happene.