Something wasn’t right here. I was watching Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins (Channel 4, Sunday) and the deal was the same as ever: a gaggle of reality TV faces, athletes, actors and assorted coat-tail travellers are shipped to the middle of nowhere to be put through hell by ex-special forces soldiers while the viewers sit cosy at home, snickering. Only this time one of the “slebs” was bothering me.
It was Rachel Johnson, journalist and brother of you know who, and it was not for the reasons you might think. Johnson talks a good game about being a tough old bird. Sent to a boys’ prep school when she was 10 don’t you know, and then there’s being a Johnson.
“I’m a member of the most unpopular family in the country, so whatever happens I can survive,” she said. Things got darker from there. When the instructors called her in for one of their heart-to-heart chats about why she wanted to do the show she said: “I have been a punchbag for a very long time.
” Read more Review: Salmond and Sturgeon: a Troubled Union, part one Is it the last waltz for Strictly? It's easy to criticise but here's why Glasgow 850 celebrations matter Whatever you think about her brother, or her, nothing merits the public bullying she seems to have been through, including strangers coming up to her in Sainsbury’s and calling her family “c****”. Was a reality TV SAS course really the best place to deal with this? The same could be asked of the chap from The Only Way is Essex who was a.
