CELEBRITY SAS Who Dares Wins fans have been left seriously impressed by the oldest ever contestant taking part.
Olympian Fatima Whitbread was seen tackling the tough SAS-style challenges last weekend in the first episode of the new series.
Fans praised Fatima’s performance in the opening episode
She remained cool after she was interrogated following the gas chamber task
Fans were left impressed by Fatima, 61, who was seen strolling casually away from a chamber where she had been tear-gassed in one brutal challenge.
A second saw her having a boxing match with her co-star, Love Island’s Amber Gill – who is more than 30 years her junior.
While a final challenge saw Fatima carry one of her co-stars round the celebrities’ Jordanian campsite in the middle of the night – running with ease.
Later sitting down with SAS staff – the javelin thrower retold the sad story of how she had been “abandoned as a baby” and “left for dead” before living in adoption homes throughout her childhood.
DS Jason Fox was left seriously impressed by Fatima’s “fighting” spirit, as he gushed over her incredible performance on the first day.
And fans at home agreed – as they took to Twitter to dub Fatima a “legend” and a “beast” thanks to her strength in the challenges.
“Fatima Whitbread is a beast and a warrior, beast mode mentality,” one wrote, as a second chimed in: “Fatima was amazing.”
A third added: “Fatima Whitbread is a f***ing legend,” while a fourth chimed in: “Catching up on Who Dares Wins, love Fatima. She’s a trooper.”
Elsewhere on Celebrity SAS, Fatima’s co-star Pete Wicks revealed how he almost drowned while filming the Channel 4 show.
The Towie stalwart was challenged to jump out a helicopter into a lake but managed to knocked himself out with his huge backpack.
It left him with broken ribs as his lifeless body floated face down in the water, leaving him minutes from death as show staff screamed for help.
Pete said: “I got it wrong, I got it very wrong. I think my leg got a little bit caught in the bag and I went straight down onto the bag, knocked myself out and broke my ribs.
“I was unconscious in the water so I don’t really remember much, just the rescue swimmers coming to get me and they flicked me over and then said, ‘Oh, we need to get you in the boat.’
“I didn’t want to get in the boat because if you start something you have to finish it, so then I remember trying to swim back. We got to shore and then I realised, ‘f**k I’ve actually hurt myself here’.”
The high jump is just one of the death-defying challenges faced by the celebrities during filming for the Channel 4 series in Jordan.
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