'Don't Rock The Boat' stars are set to face 40-hour "shifts" in the vessel. The ITV show is being billed as one of the most arduous programmes in British TV history, with the celebrities facing energy-sapping shifts on the boat followed by gruelling "land challenges".
A source said: "The celebrities do have to put in huge shifts on the boat, sometimes as long as 40 hours. "But they are allowed back on land and they often don't restart from where they finished up.
They're not rowing the entire length of Britain but bits of it in short, gruelling bursts. "When they're not on board, the boat is tugged along by another vessel and they're reunited a day or so later." ITV bosses are insistent that the time on land will not be a break for the.
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