Celebrity SAS star Rachel Johnson recently opened up about the horrific injury she sustained whilst competing in the Channel 4 series – admitting that the doctor couldn’t do anything to help.
Ex-Special Forces soldiers Billy Billingham, Foxy, Rudy Reyes and Chris Oliver put the celebrities through gruelling regimes and punishing weather – leaving them to question why they left the comfort of their homes.
In the new season, fans will sit through eight exhilarating hour-long episodes, with the celebrities going the furthest in show history as they undergo training in the south islands of New Zealand.
In a new show format, there will be no eliminations, with all celebrities remaining until the bitter end of the eight-day training course.
Taking on the challenge this year is Anthony Ogogo, Bianca Gascoigne, Bobby Norris, Cherry Healey, Chris Robshaw, Ellie Downie, Georgia Harrison, John Barrowman, Lani Daniels, Marnie Simpson, Ovie Soko, Pete Wicks, Rachel Johnson, Shazia Mirza, and Tez Ilyas.
The celebrities are all put through the most extreme and excruciating challenges and often find themselves with a wound or two – however, Johnson revealed she sustained a broken rib.
Speaking to GB News and other press, she explained: “I broke a rib! I had one broken rib and a glute but of course, it was a lose-lose situation because you’re in terrible pain.
“You go to the doctor and you say I can’t walk and I definitely can’t run and I definitely can’t carry my pack, and the doctor says ‘Well there is nothing I can do about a broken rib, I am not an x-ray machine, do you want to leave?’.
“So you just have to power on through, so, yeah, weirdly the adrenaline kept you going.”
Since the admission, a Channel 4 spokesperson said: “Contributor care is of paramount importance and we have strict protocols in place to ensure the health and welfare of each celebrity recruit before, during and after filming.
“All tasks and recruit activities are risk assessed before being completed and mitigation measures put in place. We take seriously all injuries and have an experienced health and safety and medical team on location throughout filming to treat all injuries where necessary.”
Johnson wasn’t the only one who sustained a serious injury, with Geordie Shore star Marnie Simpson getting an infection on her chest, leaving her to pull out of the competition.
The star was also competing just 10 months after having a c-section and said that she didn’t think it was the right time for her to be on the show, leaving Johnson to slam the team for allowing her to take part.
Simpson also told GB News: “My c-section was still quite sore, my boobs were sore, but yeah it wasn’t the right timing. I just think I got to a point where the mental side was affecting us, it wasn’t doing us any good being there, physically and mentally.
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“One of my wounds on my boobs had opened up and got infected and the more that I was going in and out of the water and drying my body it was getting worse, and I thought I love this show but I don’t think it is worth my health…”
Johnson interjected and admitted: “I was absolutely horrified you were there, I felt so maternal towards you. I felt you were my daughter and when you went down the damn I thought NO!”
“The pain that put on my c-section scar, I was just in agony, weeks after I left I genuinely thought it had damaged my scar, it had only been 10/11 months and I had a bad delivery so that was just,” Simpson added.
“I was surprised that the production allowed you to do the show,” Johnson said before Simpson defended the show bosses: “To be fair I was probably like I’ll be fine.”
