Pete Wicks airlifted from mountain after collapsing on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins

Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins enlistee Pete Wicks had to beryllium airlifted to information aft collapsing connected the Channel 4 world show.

The Strictly Come Dancing star, 36, is competing successful the brutal programme for a 2nd clip aft helium was forced to retreat successful 2022.

However, writer Rachel Johnson, Boris Johnson’s sister, told Metro.co.uk and different property helium suffered different aesculapian incidental during his comeback.

The 59-year-old said: ‘Pete Wicks was medevacked disconnected the mountain. He collapsed.’

Fellow enlistee and Geordie Shore prima Marnie Simpson, 32, added: ‘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.’

On Celebrity SAS 2 years ago, Pete was forced to discontinue erstwhile he jumped retired of a chopper into a lake, knocking himself unconscious with his backpack arsenic helium deed the h2o face-down astatine afloat speed.

Speaking astir the incident, Pete antecedently said: ‘I genuinely thought this would beryllium the situation for maine to amusement what I f****** got and I got it wrong, I got it precise wrong. I deliberation my limb got a small spot caught successful the container and I went consecutive down onto the bag, knocked myself out, and broke my ribs.

‘I felt dazed and confused. I was struggling to determination my precocious body. Basically, I deliberation wherever I’d deed the bag, and I deliberation conscionable the interaction of being unconscious and everything else, I was precise confused.

‘I didn’t truly cognize precisely what was going connected and adjacent moving my arms was rather painful, conscionable due to the fact that the unit that was connected my ribs and everything, truthful it conscionable wasn’t nice. It was conscionable a strange, unusual experience.’

He said his departure would ‘haunt’ him and helium was ‘gutted, hurt, disappointed and angry’ by his departure arsenic helium ‘doesn’t reasonably things.’

Pete added: ‘There was nary mode I was ever going to manus my armband in. I knew I ne'er would, truthful to spell retired the mode I did truly hurt. To beryllium withdrawn due to the fact that you’re physically incapable to transportation connected for thing that was an unfortunate accident, I conscionable recovered really, truly tough.’

After the accident, the Channel 4 show’s main aesculapian serviceman medically withdrew Pete due to the fact that helium needed to person a thorax X-ray.

Last period Pete, who is besides competing connected Strictly with nonrecreational spouse Jowita Przystal, said his ribs were ‘still broken.’

Talking astir his wounded connected his Staying Relevant podcast with champion person and I’m A Celebrity victor Sam Thompson, Pete antecedently said helium was ‘worried’ astir Strictly rehearsals, saying: ‘I’m 36, I haven’t been to the gym successful ages.’

He said he’s keen not to get further injured earlier the BBC amusement begins portion his 3 breached ribs are inactive connected the mend, adding: ‘My ribs are inactive broken, which is going to beryllium a pain.’

It was antecedently claimed that Pete taking portion successful Strictly near Channel 4 bosses ‘fuming’, arsenic SAS: Who Dares Wins returns successful the aforesaid week arsenic Strictly.

‘Channel 4 were fuming erstwhile Pete was revealed arsenic portion of this year’s Strictly cast,’ a root told The Sun.

‘It’s the 2nd clip they’ve been screwed implicit by different world show.

‘After Pete was knocked unconscious and broke his ribs successful 2022’s series, his instrumentality to effort and walk enactment was a large woody and the archetypal clip [ex-Special Forces pb instructor] Billy Billingham and the directing unit person allowed a celeb to effort retired twice.’

The root added: ‘Bosses wanted his to beryllium 1 of the main storylines connected the show, a existent redemption arc, but present they’ve been trumped by Strictly.’

Pete joins the likes of erstwhile Love Island prima and nonrecreational hoops player Ovie Soko and ex-professional boxer Anthony Ogogo on Celebrity SAS.

Former Olympic gymnast Ellie Downie will besides beryllium taking part, arsenic volition world TV star Bianca Gascoigne, erstwhile England rugby captain Chris Robshaw, and John Barrowman among others.

Series six of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins volition aerial connected Channel 4 each Sunday and Monday from September 22 astatine 9pm. 

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