Pete Wicks said he was “truly gutted” to be medically withdrawn from Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins after he knocked himself unconscious and broke his ribs during a challenge.The Only Way Is Essex star was seen floating face down in the sea in the shocking scene which aired on Sunday, after jumping from a helicopter with reality star Ashley Cain in a helo-cast task.
Rescue swimmers raced to help the 33-year-old, flipping him over in the water as the concerned recruits were heard saying from the shoreline: “Someone’s struggling.” After swimming to shore, Wicks told a medic: “I winded myself and passed out, all my ribs are quite painful and my head is banging.” He later said: “I had no worries about that challenge, which is the weirdest thing.
My strongest thing is probably swimming. “I genuinely thought this would be the challenge for me to show what I f****** got and I got it wrong, I got it very wrong.
I think my leg got a little bit caught in the bag and I went straight down onto the bag, knocked myself out and broke my ribs. “I felt dazed and confused.
Read more on ok.co.uk