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Privacy NoticeLoose Women’s Andrea McLean has opened up about how she ‘fell apart’ on a gruelling television show, and begged it not to go to air. On the Mile Fly Club podcast, Andrea, opened up about her experience on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. Andrea starred in the reality show in 2019 but had to pull out of the physically demanding show due to hypothermia. However, she also endured another traumatic experience, involving a mock kidnapping. Talking to podcast host Laura Hamilton, Andrea said she later begged producers ‘not to show it’. In the SAS challenge, Andrea had a hood pulled over her head and was transported to an unknown location via boat. Once she reached her destination, someone ripped the bag off her face and stared into her “soul” as if they “hated” her.
Andrea had to drop out of Celebrity SAS after contracting hypothermia
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In that moment, she said they appeared to be like somebody else from her past who’d previously looked at her in a similar way. Andrea then explained she later “fell apart” during a “fighting part” of the experience, but this didn’t go unnoticed by the show’s directing staff. Andrea confessed: “It was like feelings that just exploded out of me. What’s interesting…when I look on the TV show now, I have no expression on my face. You would not know that’s what’s happening.” After the mock kidnap, Andrea was summoned into interrogation where they asked her why she reacted in such a way. Andrea explained: “Now, what I ended up talking to them about, I made it really clear this is not for public viewing so they’ve been very good and they never showed it, but I explained what my situation had been. And to be fair to all of them, they were actually very kind and very supportive.
Andrea opened about the experience on the Mile Fly Club podcast
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Sign up to OK’s TV newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox for free “And my experience after that, whilst it was brutal, and it was tough, and I ended up getting hypothermia, and I had to leave the show, actually, they were incredibly kind and supportive to me whilst shouting, whilst screaming, whilst doing all the things.” Andrea also briefly spoke about the ordeal with Chris Evans on Virgin Radio where she said she had ‘buried’ certain experiences – but that the show had forced her to confront them. The 2024 series of Celebrity SAS Who Dares wins is currently airing on Channel 4 and the first episode saw John Barrowman sensationally quit the series after just 32 minutes into the show.
Andrea has opened up about her ordeal before
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