Where SAS Who Dares Wins is filmed in Jordan as celebs take on gruelling show
ok.co.ukCelebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins is back and welcomes 14 new celebrities into the fold as they are tested to their limits. The group this year includes Love Island winner Amber Gill , soap actress Maisie Smith and Ex on the Beach star Ashley Cain putting themselves through their paces on the Channel 4 show.The group will leave behind their comfortable homes and glamorous lifestyles for the Jordanian desert in what has been described as one of the “harshest training environments on the planet”.
The southern desert of Wadi Rum was the key location for shooting the seventh series and has been described as having “dramatic rock formation of sandstone and granite and its wide-open sandy plain,” by Jordan News.
This year’s location is a change to the usual environment of rural Scotland. Channel 4 said the celebrities would be “put through a series of gruelling tasks and interrogations in the blistering heat of the Jordanian desert”.The channel added: “The series was filmed in the protected desert area of Wadi Rum in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Jordan. “Also known as the Valley of the Moon, it's a dramatic desert landscape of sandstone and granite and has been the backdrop for many epic feature films – from Lawrence of Arabia to The Martian & recently Dune. “The base, known as the French Fort, was originally constructed as part of a set for a 1998 French TV production.” Chief instructor Rudi Reyes said: “These recruits were fantastic, so fit and so strong, but they’d never been in complete zero humidity, or that kind of heat, or continuous sand. “So they dehydrated quickly, and it sapped a lot of their strength.Those who survived the process learned to adapt.” The series will also be the longest yet with seven 60-minute.
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