John Barrowman quit Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins after just 32 minutes (Picture: Pete Dadds/Channel 4/PA Wire)
Actor John Barrowman quit Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins just 32 minutes after he arrived at base camp, it has been revealed.
The Doctor Who star, 57, is part of the sixth series of the Channel 4 reality show, which sees celebrities including Boris Johnson’s sister Rachel and Strictly Come Dancing star Pete Wicks taking part in SAS winter warfare training in the south islands of New Zealand.
The brutal series often results in injuries, and plenty of tears as the stars undertake gruelling challenges.
Barrowman, who opened up about the flashing allegations he faced in 2021 while on the show, could be seen throwing up sometime after the first challenge, and later quit.
After the contestants put on their uniforms and got ready to see their accommodation, Barrowman, started heaving and told the group ‘I’m out’.
Asked by Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham if he would like to see a doctor, Barrowman then said: ‘No… I’m done.’
The Doctor Who star quit the gruelling series after just one task (Picture: Pete Dadds/Channel 4/PA Wire)
He added: ‘I just… it’s not for me, I know who I am and what I’m about, it’s not for me.’
The narrator of the programme said: ‘After only 32 minutes on base, number 13 John is the first recruit to leave the course.’
This comes after comedian Shazia Mirza, 51, told Metro.co.uk and other press ahead of Celebrity SAS’s launch the Arrowverse actor voluntarily left when they returned to camp after an ice bath challenge.
‘We all failed the task,’ she explained. ‘Then we got back to camp and they made us go head first into an ice pack with our clothes on.
‘John Barrowman just thought, “F*** this. I don’t need to do this.” And he handed his arm band in after that.’
John was left heaving and vomiting after the challenge (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
During the episode, Barrowman – who was making his TV comeback after he was accused of exposing himself to fellow stars on the set of Doctor Who in what was described as ‘inappropriate pranks’ – addressed the accusations that he had repeatedly exposed himself on the set of the BBC One sci-fi series and its sister show Torchwood.
He said: ‘The press made the allegation that I was going around putting my dick on everybody’s shoulders.
‘Having that happen to me ruined me, but this course is going to help me push through this and I want people to see the kind of person that I really am.’
He later added: ‘On Doctor Who and Torchwood, I had to do a lot of nude scenes. If I were being stupid, I would do something stupid.
‘I would shake and waggle or I might do a scene where I might have one of my bollocks hanging out.
‘The press made it out that I was a sexual deviant. We’ve all done stupid things and silly things, but what’s been said about me will never go away now.’
John also addressed the accusations that he had repeatedly exposed himself on the set of Doctor Who (Picture: BBC Studios/James Pardon)
In an interview ahead of the new series airing,the former Dancing On Ice judge also recalled how heavily he was impacted when he believed that he had been ‘cancelled’ due to the accusations, saying: ‘I had thoughts of suicide, going out and trying to do certain things and harm myself, and a couple of times debating how I was going to kill myself.’
He added that the thought of his family and friends, including his husband Scott Gill, made him reconsider.
Barrowman also shared that he ‘lost a lot of trust in other people’, as there were some individuals who he thought would be there for him, but weren’t as they were ‘scared’.
Contestants in this series also include former Olympic gymnast Ellie Downie, comedian Tez Ilyas, professional basketball player and Love Island star Ovie Soko and world heavyweight champion boxer Lani Daniels.
Reality TV Star Bianca Gascoigne, former England rugby captain Chris Robshaw, TV Presenter Cherry Healey, former professional boxer Anthony Ogogo, Love Island contestant Georgia Harrison, reality star Bobby Norris and former Geordie Shore star Marnie Simpson complete the line-up.
Series six of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins airs on Channel 4 every Sunday and Monday from September 22, at 9pm.
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