Celebrity SAS Who Dares Wins' Pete Wicks faces major fear after sea accident

Pete Wicks has opened up connected his fears of the oversea and 'flashbacks' aft helium was knocked unconscious successful the past bid of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins

Pete Wicks has confronted his fears successful a immense Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins task,

TOWIE prima Pete took portion successful an unfastened h2o situation - a task which antecedently landed him successful hospital. Alongside 13 different recruits, Pete was required to ascent a level and autumn backwards into unfastened h2o for the last task.

However, h2o challenges bring backmost traumatic memories for Pete. In past year's series, helium jumped retired of a chopper and upon hitting the water, was knocked unconscious and suffered respective breached ribs. This incidental forced him to permission the series, prompting his instrumentality this year.

Before taking the plunge disconnected the platform, Pete addressed the camera astir the erstwhile incident. He stated: "Last clip I thought h2o would beryllium my beardown constituent and I knocked myself unconscious and I broke a mates of ribs. I cannot beryllium the idiosyncratic who f****d it twice."

Pete past confessed that he's "not been successful unfastened h2o since" and that he's developed a "weird fearfulness of the sea". The Strictly Come Dancing prima besides said he's experienced "flashbacks" from the incidental - but admits he's not definite if they truly are memories. Pete did fearlessly look the situation and passed with flying colours arsenic helium deed the h2o uninjured. However, determination would beryllium catastrophe brewing arsenic writer Rachel Johnson, who is besides competing successful the series, revealed Pete has had an mishap successful the 2024 series. She explained: "Pete Wicks was medevacked disconnected the mountain. He collapsed."

Despite his fears, Pete bravely faced the situation and successfully completed it without injury. Geordie Shore icon Marnie Simpson, 32, chimed in: "I felt atrocious for Pete due to the fact that coming backmost the 2nd time, determination was truthful overmuch unit connected him to bash adjacent amended than the archetypal clip truthful helium pushed himself mode excessively far."

Luckily, the bid was changeable past twelvemonth successful New Zealand, which is conscionable arsenic good since Pete is present strutting his worldly connected Strictly Come Dancing. On the premiere amusement connected Saturday (21 September), Pete and his creation spouse Jowita Przystal performed admirably, though the judges weren't wholly enamoured with their attempt.

Scoring modestly from the judges Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke with scores of 4, 5, 3 and 5, Pete and Jowita racked up a full of 17 points retired of 40, a effect they recovered little than satisfactory. Taking to Instagram Stories to ponder implicit his show and the critiques, Pete quipped: "It tin lone get better," accompanied by a laughing emoji.

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