SAS: Who Dares Wins star Ant Middleton ‘suffers major blow’ for TV spin-off

SAS: Who Dares Wins prima Ant Middleton has been dealt a ‘major blow’ aft receiving atrocious quality astir a spin-off of the Channel 4 series.

The subject grooming programme, which started backmost successful 2015, sees mean radical and celebrities facing pugnacious endurance tasks to beryllium their mettle to Ant and the show’s different main instructors.

Ant was progressive with the Channel 4 amusement betwixt 2015 and 2021 but hasn’t appeared since then, alternatively focusing connected the spin-off SAS Australia.

SAS Australia started successful 2020 and looked acceptable to proceed with a 5th play successful 2025, with Ant promising that the bid ‘will beryllium coming back’ amid rumours of casting calls.

However, sources person claimed that the 5th play whitethorn ne'er scope TV aft discussions and negotiations betwixt Screentime and Channel Seven successful Australia seemingly broke down.

It’s reportedly travel arsenic a astonishment that nary filming volition person been completed for play 5 earlier the extremity of 2024, and the amusement was seemingly absent from Channel Seven’s 2025 line-up announcement.

Its rumoured cancellation has travel arsenic a astonishment aft 1.85 cardinal radical tuned successful to ticker the 2023 finale (equivalent to astir 5 cardinal viewers successful the UK).

According to MailOnline, insiders person indicated that the show’s aboriginal whitethorn prevarication elsewhere, with Australia’s Channel Nine seemingly showing interest.

But negotiations and involvement connection nary guarantees, and accumulation connected a 5th play seemingly fizzling retired down the scenes is simply a large stroke to SAS Australia’s future.

And it appears to spell against each indications that Ant gave astir the bid earlier this year, erstwhile it seemed definite a 5th play would beryllium greelint.

He told Yahoo Lifestyle backmost successful August: ‘Of people we’re coming back, SAS Australia’s gone nowhere. You’ve heard it from the horse’s mouth.

‘We conscionable request to marque definite we’ve got the close cast, that we’ve got the close location, and with SAS Australia you can’t unreserved it.’

He continued: ‘You can’t conscionable go, “Right, we request to bash it each year” due to the fact that it’s astir getting things right, it’s astir keeping it authentic and keeping it existent and keeping it raw.

‘We request the close cast, we request the close location, and we request the close accumulation institution connected board.’

Ant had antecedently told The Express that a 5th play of SAS Australia was precise overmuch successful his plans, with his idiosyncratic hunt for a caller formed seemingly nether way.

‘I’ve already got a fewer names successful mind. [Actor] James Stewart, oregon [singer] Samantha Jade – she’s similar a small pouch rocket. I tin conscionable representation her going afloat throttle.’

A seventh bid of the archetypal British mentation of the amusement has been commissioned by Channel 4, with filming already having taken spot successful Wales implicit the summertime of 2024.

Metro.co.uk has contacted Ant Middleton for comment.

Watch SAS: Who Dares Wins connected Channel 4.

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