Shannon Courtenay refused to punch Calum Best in Celebrity SAS: 'Hate violence!'
msn.comWARNING: This article contains spoilers from Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins returns on Sunday, September 4, where fans get to see 14 famous faces take on mentally and physically stressful challenges in an attempt to pass the SAS Selection test.
In episode one, the group are brought to the middle of the desert in Jordan where they must put on their boxing gloves and fight one another. © CHANNEL 4 Celebrity SAS: who dares wins shannon courtenay The point of the task was that you are not always going to want to fight your enemies but you must get over that mental barrier and fulfil the mission at hand.
While it was assumed this was going to be an easy task for professional boxer Shannon, 29, she was among the stars who found it the most difficult. © GETTY/CHANNEL 4 Celebrity SAS: shannon courtenay calum best Speaking to press including Express.
co. uk, Shannon explained: "I had never seen it but I was told there was a boxing challenge and I said from the get-go I'm not doing it, because it's my profession, it's what I do for a living. "Not even just the way that I know to punch someone, I know how to take a punch whereas others didn't. "I just felt super, super uncomfortable taking part in it so when we got there, they said to me straight away number 11, you're first, you choose who you are going to fight. ' © CHANNEL 4 Celebrity SAS: who dares wins release date "So I looked at the line-up and everyone looked terrified. "They were putting their heads to the ground, they looked so scared to fight so I thought I'm going to take one for the team and take the biggest person so I picked Calum [Best].
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