CELEBRITY SAS: Who Dares Wins recruit Shannon Courtenay needed two operations after taking part in the show - with bosses telling her she should have quit.
The professional boxer, 29, sustained the injuries in the ring before filming but hid her agony from the ex- special forces staff. "I didn’t tell anyone, any of the producers, but I went in with a ruptured ACL and a torn meniscus.
So I wore a strap on my knee under my trousers that no one knew about," she told The Sun. "I had to have two operations since the show but I was in agony the whole time I was filming. "I told the producers I had a niggle in my knee.
I never told them what the problem was. "It wasn’t until after the show they actually asked me and then obviously I had the operations and they were like ‘you idiot why did you do the show with that wrong with your leg’.
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