SAS Australia: Who Dares Wins 2021 cast revealed
This year’s SAS Australia recruits include athletes, socialites, a beauty queen and even a former politician. Find out who made the cut.
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A mixed field of athletes, entertainers, reality stars and even a former politician have made the cut for the 2021 season of SAS Australia.
Controversial retired NRL player Sam Burgess is a confirmed frontrunner after months of speculation, alongside Olympic athletes including Kerri Pottharst, Jana Pittman and John Steffensen.
Socialite Brynne Edelsten is in the running, as is notorious Bra Boy and surfer Koby Abberton, sports reporter, singer and former beauty queen Erin Holland, ironman Jett Kenny and singer Pete Murray.
The celebrity contestants are understood to be spending the next fortnight competing in various physical and mental challenges as they undertake a gruelling SAS selection course under the guidance of elite British ex-Special Forces soldiers Ant Middleton, Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham, Jason ‘Foxy’ Fox and Ollie Ollerton.
“Living in our world will be the rawest and most brutal life lesson these celebrities will ever experience,” chief instructor Middleton said. “We aren’t holding anything back, it’s as authentic as it gets.”
Last year marked the first season of the format in Australia, proving a massive hit for the Seven Network and providing many controversial moments.
It was shot near Jindabyne while this year’s season is being filmed near the Blue Mountains.
AFLW player Sabrina Frederick, radio funnyman Merrick Watts and Nick ‘Honey Badger’ Cummins were the three recruits to pass SAS selection in the first series.
Season two will air on Seven later this year.
Also making the course are tennis champions Alicia Molik and Mark Phillipoussis, socialite and reality star Brynne Edelsten, actors Isabelle Cornish and Dan Ewing, and former Labor MP Emma Husar.
Sprinter Jessica Peris, daughter of Olympic great Nova Peris, will compete, as will celebrity chef Manu Feildel and AFL star Heath Shaw.
Here is the full list of who made the cut:
- Alicia Molik, 40 – Tennis Champion
- Bonnie Anderson, 26 – Singer / Actor
- Brynne Edelsten, 38 – Socialite
- Dan Ewing, 35, – Actor
- Emma Husar, 40 – Former Politician
- Erin Holland, 32 – TV Presenter
- Heath Shaw, 35 – AFL Star
- Isabelle Cornish, 26 – Actor
- Jana Pittman, 38 – Dual Olympian
- Jessica Peris, 31 – Sprinter
- Jett Kenny, 26 – Ironman
- John Steffensen, 38 – Olympic Runner
- Kerri Pottharst, 55 – Beach Volleyball Olympian
- Koby Abberton, 42 – Bra Boy, surfer
- Manu Feildel, 47 – Celebrity Chef
- Mark Philippoussis, 44 – Tennis Legend
- Pete Murray, 51 – Singer-Songwriter
- Sam Burgess, 32 – NRL Star
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