HAVING grown up in a caravan with no water or electricity, hunting wildlife for food, new SAS Who Dares Wins recruit Ross Young is better equipped than most to deal with the perils of the jungle.
The latest series of the Channel 4 show, which kicks off tonight, will put the contestants to the test in the wilderness of Thung Ui, North Vietnam.
Ross, 41, grew up in the Romani community, after his mum ran away from her family to marry his traveller dad, who she met at a fairground in Skegness.
He was home-schooled in a caravan parked on a bridle path in Spilsby, Lincolnshire. Now Ross, of Gravesend, Kent, wants to change perceptions of the Romani community by starring in SAS: Who Dares Wins.
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