SAS hero Andy McNab says he has not watched any episodes of hit Channel 4 reality show SAS: Who Dares Wins because it is not real.
Andy was a former Special Air Service commando, who infamously led ill-fated mission Bravo Two Zero during the Gulf War in 1991, and ended up being captured for six weeks in Iraq.
He was relentlessly and savagely tortured before finally being rescued.
In an exclusive interview with Daily Star Online, the 60-year-old war hero said the show doesn’t match up with the real Special Air Service selection.
He said: “It’s entertainment, it’s a reality show. The individuals in the show – overcoming their own personal fears and insecurities – which is fine, because that’s the basis of reality TV and it works and made a success.
SAS hero Andy McNab said he doesn’t bother to watch Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins (Image: Andy McNab)
“But it’s not special forces selection because special forces selection is all about getting people living in a field for months and months and do operations.
“So it’s a totally different thing.”
The best-selling author said he would describe the Channel 4 programme as “an endurance show”.
“People want to do it [SAS:Who Dares Wins], but it’s not SAS selection, it’s not a selection,” he stressed.
Andy said SAS:Who Dares Wins is not real Special Forces selection but an endurance show (Image: C4/SAS:Who Dares Wins)
“What it is, it’s an endurance show and people enjoy it, so great. I don’t particularly bother about it really.”
Andy said the same type of programme seems to “reinvent itself every 10 years” and he explained the programme remains so popular because “people are fascinated by it”.
He told this site: “People watching it will go like ‘could I do that?’ but that’s fine.
“I don’t bother watching it and I don’t want to produce any of them because I’m more interested in producing films basically.
“That makes more money. Simple as that.”
Andy will be releasing a new edition of his best-seller “Bravo Two Zero” in July and he told this site that there are additional parts in the book where he discussed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
