Dramatic Series Conclusion of SAS: Who Dares Wins (Jungle Hell) as Grant, Joshua, and Hilary Make It Through Selection

Channel 4’s season of SAS: Who Dares Wins – Jungle Hell has concluded, and Chief Instructor Billy Billingham and his team of DS (directing staff) — Foxy, (Jason Fox), Rudy Reyes, and Chris Oliver — have announced that Grant, Joshua, and Hilary have PASSED this year’s selection course, in the treacherous Vietnamese jungle.

On Tuesday night at the conclusion of the series, with four recruits remaining (Grant (2), Joshua (3), Hilary (4), Faye (7)), Billy revealed that only THREE recruits have passed the course. Twenty ordinary men and women have spent the past five weeks attempting to complete the jungle phase of SAS selection.

On making the announcement, he says: “Take a breath, relax, it’s been a tough course, so it’s a massive achievement for all of you right now standing in front of us. The question we always ask is – could we have that person stood next to us. Number seven (Faye), the answer was no, but for the remainder of you, congratulations, good effort you’ve all passed the selection process. Well done! Good effort! Congratulations to all of you – it’s a massive achievement!”

On passing the course, Grant said: “As a civilian taking on Special Forces tasks and challenges, I felt super human! I felt like a new man…I feel proud.”

Joshua commented: “It’s an amazing, indescribable feeling. I had a once in a lifetime opportunity and I’m very proud of my achievement! I was buzzing, to say the least, and just glad I dug deep to see it through to the end.”

Hilary adds: “It feels so so amazing, so liberating and so satisfying to have made it through. I would never have thought I would get this far at all…I definitely left there a changed person, not just for a while but forever. I feel so empowered and honoured to say that I have completed something like that.”

The DS pooled its expertise in jungle combat over the series to design the most difficult challenges to date. This has truly been man vs nature at its most lethal. The rules of guerilla warfare were rewritten in Vietnam, and the country is rife with battle history. Both favourable and unfavourable circumstances can test your mettle, but only the strongest will emerge victorious.

After being kidnapped by an elite Hunter Force squad in the heart of the Vietnamese jungle, the remaining seven trainees were brought in to be questioned by a professional team of interrogators with over 40 years of expertise in conflict zones. The trainees were then interrogated harshly for the next 14 hours while pretending to carry out a different task under the pretense that they were just practicing. At the most terrifying part of the program, victims were subjected to horrific punishments like being buried alive and held in stress positions for hours on end. There were only four candidates that made it through this round and went on to compete in the final ‘Sickener’ assignment, but only three of them ultimately proven themselves to be mentally and physically tough enough to pass the selection course.

SAS: Who Dares Wins – Jungle Hell is a Minnow Films production for Channel 4. The Executive Producers are Liam Humphreys, Ricky Kelehar and Richard Cooke, the Series Producer is Joe Ward and Channel 4’s Commissioning Editor for Science and Adventure is Jonah Weston.