James Weir recaps SAS Australia 2021 episode 8

A celeb on SAS Australia has revealed a disgusting incident that happened after someone did drugs at Russell Crowe’s house. James Weir recaps.

The most compelling thing about SAS Australia is realising the celebrity contestants are just everyday people with average lives made up of mundane occurrences like grocery shopping, paying bills and projectile vomiting all over Russell Crowe’s house after getting drunk and stoned.

It’s these little meaningless vignettes that weave together to form a beautiful — if somewhat vom-stained — tapestry of life.

As John Lennon said, life is what happens when you’re busy power-chundering onto the couches of Oscar winners.

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Tuesday night’s episode is all about getting back to basics. It’s what we love about SAS Australia. Other reality shows try to over-complicate the formula with drunken dinner parties and weird games. But SAS producers give us what we want: Celebrities being pushed off cliffs before falling headfirst into murky water.

See ya!

Ciao!

Splat.

Former Home And Away star Dan Ewing is back to his old tricks.

“I know when I’m prepared, I have immense confidence. Because I’ve led films before,” he says with a straight face.

Oh my gosh, he’s serious.

Meanwhile, Bra Boy Koby Abberton continues to be a shining light. Everyone heads back to the campsite and he regales the boys with a really relatable tale about Russell Crowe.

“I’ll tell ya a story about Russ. When we first done the Bra Boys thing, I wanted to get Russell to narrate it, yeah?” he says of the 2007 documentary about his surf gang.

“I went to his house and I took my manager there. My manager doesn’t drink or smoke. Next thing, I look across and he’s smoking joints and drinking beers. Russell comes out (wearing) the Gladiator mask. I start goin’, ‘Where’s the Gladiator mask!’ and wrestling and sh*t. I had the best time ever. And my manager just starts laughing his head off and just starts projectile vomiting all over Russell’s house, bro.”

The exact house isn’t specified but, at the time, Russell did own his apartment down on the Woolloomooloo wharf — a site with unrivalled proximity to the iconic Sydney pie van Harry’s Cafe de Wheels. It’s the very establishment that provoked reality contestant Laurina Fleure to utter the infamous phrase “dirty street pie” when she was taken there on a date in season two of The Bachelor.

Anyway, my point is this: Koby’s tale becomes even more gripping when you realise that, after smoking joints and smashing beers, they possibly could have gotten the munchies and started scoffing down dirty street pies before power-chundering the toxic mess over Russell’s living room.

Koby continues the harrowing story: “Russell (was in) his room. I was wiping it up, trying to hide it. Russell walks out and goes, ‘I got video cameras everywhere’. We had the best time.”

I’m sure Russell recalls the incident with similar affection.

RIP Russell Crowe’s couch.

When it comes to SAS Australia, the highs are high and the lows are low. One minute we’re projectile vomiting onto Russell Crowe’s wall artwork. The next, we’re getting raw and introspective.

The celebrities are given a task: reveal the thing they’re most ashamed of. One-by-one, they stand in front of the group and expose the actions and behaviour from their past that they now look back at with regret.

Tennis pro Mark Philippoussis reflects on poor financial decisions that affected his family. Olympian Jana Pittman talks about struggling to keep her family housed while completing her medical degree. All the celebrities dig deep.

Even Koby. He refers to the opening scene in the Bra Boys doco where he went on camera and claimed his little brother’s dad once hit him with a baseball bat when, actually, the man had just chased him with a bat after a young Koby walked in on them doing drugs. He expresses his remorse for how that false claim affected relationships in his family.

“He was a piece of sh*t, but,” he concludes.

And just like that, the episode switches gears and we’re back on a high. Koby never dwells. Moments later, he’s dragging tree branches across a dirt trail in a rogue effort to sabotage his castmates during a challenge.

That’s the Koby we — and Russell Crowe — know and love.

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Oh Kobes.

Originally published as James Weir recaps SAS Australia 2021 episode 8