CELEBRITY SAS: Who Dares Wins’ Curtis Pritchard was left mortified after breaking a bone TWO days before joining the show.
The former Love Island star is one of 12 well-known faces to be taking part in the new series of the Channel 4 show.
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins star Curtis Pritchard broke a bone two days before the show started
Curtis takes part in the new series alongside his brother AJ and a host of other famous faces
He will be joined by his brother AJ as well as fellow Love Island 2019 alum, Amber Gill and other stars including EastEnders’ Maisie Smith and sports legend Fatima Whitbread.
The celebrities are put through arduous tasks in the desert while on the show, and are really pushed to their physical and mental limits.
However, Curtis, 26, has admitted that he caused the most damage to himself just two days before he started filming, and in a rather embarrassing manner too.
Speaking to The Celeb Report Online and other media, he said: “I did have a small hiccup just before going in.
“Two days before going in, I was gonna go for a massage and I accidentally stubbed my little toe and broke it.
“Literally they called me into your massage and I stood up and booted my toe.
“I was that embarrassed, I couldn’t make a facial expression, couldn’t make a noise, I just kept walking on it.
“And I knew ‘what have I just done to myself’.”
His brother AJ added: “It was like a scene from Friends.”
Curtis continued: “I was so embarrassed. I felt like an absolute idiot.
“As everything was going through my head I thought ‘I can’t believe you’ve just done this before going on to a TV programme to do SAS Who Dares Wins.
“And this woman’s gonna think I’m an absolute imbecile doing this.”
Curtis was already concerned about another injury, having broken his shoulder last year.
He explained: “I was still recovering from it, was it fine? Hmm it was alright.
“I had to make sure I kept stretching my rotator cuff had a slightly weak rotator cuff. So I had to really work on that and stretch that, they all knew about it.
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“It was strong. It was fine. But I was aware of that actually, it was the one thing going into the first challenge I thought to myself, ‘Am I going to be able to do this programme or am I not going to be able to do this programme?’
“Hitting the first challenge I thought ‘If my shoulder gives in now, I am done in, absolutely done, and I did that first challenge and I was like, ‘I’m gonna be able to do this. This is awesome.'”
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins begins tonight, Sunday September 4 at 9pm on Channel 4.
