Comedian Shazia Mirza has been withdrawn from Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins after she failed to keep up with the other recruits during an assault course in tonight’s episode. The 45-year-old lagged behind fellow contestants from the start of the “bee sting” exercise on the Channel 4 reality show, with directing staff instructing her to “keep up” and “stop f****** loafing”. Eventually chief instructor Billy Billingham instructed her to give up her armband, meaning she was withdrawn from the group.
As directing staff asked her to hand over the armband, she told them: “I don’t want to accept it.” Directing staff member Chris Oliver replied: “You don’t have a choice.” The exercise saw the recruits forced to complete a circuit course which saw them dive into a box filled with water and forced to do a number of exercises including star jumps and press ups.
After Mirza was booted off the show, British basketball Ovie Soko, 33, considered leaving the show after a member of directing staff laughed at him for wearing Cherry Healey’s fleece after his broke. When the group returned to their barracks, Soko told his fellow recruits: “I think I’m going to go home. “They’re taking the f****** piss, like just don’t f****** take the piss out of me.
“Don’t do that, don’t start taking the piss out of me for stuff that’s too small for me, because one I was f****** born this way.” He went to tell the directing staff he was leaving, with Billingham te.