‘I don’t give a f***, but you’re going to get it in’: Pete Murray loses it on SAS Australia

Aussie singer Pete Murray is still feeling the effects of a serious medical scare on set of hardcore reality show, SAS Australia.

Pete Murray still can’t straighten his arm after he dislocated his elbow on hardcore reality show, SAS Australia.

It’s been four months since the singer/songwriter had to medically withdraw from the course where celebs are put through their paces in a condensed version of the Special Forces selection program. Murray says his forearm still aches and his fingers get pretty tired playing guitar.

However, in his typical laid-back fashion, the 51-year-old is more upset at having to leave the course after a couple of days, than about the painful dislocated joint – which took three men, three attempts to get back in after he was taken to the closest hospital. He was also more concerned about his empty stomach that night.

Singer Pete Murray with the SAS Australia medic after an injury he sustained on Seven's SAS Australia. Picture: Seven

“The doctor was like ‘if we can’t get it in, we’ll have to send you to a bigger hospital to have an operation,” Murray revealed, “I was starving though – we were only having horrible porridge with an egg in the morning. That day we had soup for lunch, which was not filling at all, so I had been looking forward to dinner.

“I didn’t have any because I was injured, and by now it was 11pm at night.

“I said to him, and pardon my French, but I said to him “I don’t give a f*** what you do but you’re going to get it in, because I’m hungry and I need to eat food’.”

It was the fourth day on the course and Murray was feeling pretty confident. Despite being one of the oldest recruits and nursing a calf tear from his hurried prep following his late call-up to the Channel 7 reality show, he was one of the few who had successfully completed all the challenges.

Pete Murray lands awkwardly on the ground after sparring with Mark Philipoussis on SAS Australia. Picture: Seven

“I don’t make a habit of getting into fights,” Murray said, ahead of the boxing challenge where he was paired with former tennis star Mark Philippoussis.

“You don’t know what is going to happen.”

The always chill father-of-four didn’t realise just how prophetic those words would be as he went toe-to-toe with Scud. Viewers winced as Murray fell and landed awkwardly, dislocating his elbow, which could then be seen jutting out at an awkward angle as he was walked from the “ring” by the show’s medic.

“It’s funny – the only time I didn’t have any fear ahead of a task was the boxing,” he said. “I wasn’t worried – you know what you’re in for, you’re going to throw some punches and you’re going to get punched. I was just so stunned when I fell back and hurt myself.”

Pete Murray with his baby daughter Sahara.

Murray – whose fourth child, daughter Sahara May with wife Mira Eady, was born six weeks after he retired hurt from the show – wishes he could go back and do it all again. He relished the excitement and the anticipation of not knowing what would happen next.

“It made me think if I was young again, say in my 20s, would I join the army for a thrill?,” Murray said. “I might – it challenges you mentally and physically which is a really great thing. I’m not into war of course. But it really made me think about what the men and women of our defence forces do for us.”

SAS Australia, Monday-Wednesday, 7.30pm, Seven

Originally published as ‘I don’t give a f***, but you’re going to get it in’: Pete Murray loses it on SAS Australia