SAS: Who Dares Wins’ Billy Billingham says he made ALL of the celebs cry on new series – and feud with ‘disgusting’ star
SAS: Who Dares Wins star Billy Billingham has revealed that he made ALL of the celebrities cry on upcoming series of the Channel 4 show.
The 59-year-old, who is chief instructor on the much-loved programme, also dubbed one of the cast “disgusting” as they didn’t get “past day one”.
With the sixth series hitting our screens very soon, there has been speculation on who will be taking part.
The likes of Love Island’s Adam Collard, pop legend Hannah Spearritt and Peru Two’s Michaella McCollum are rumoured to be part of the line-up.
Without giving too much away, Billy exclusively told The Sun: “So we’ve got an array of people. What I will say to you is this – I make every one of them cry.”
There is one celebrity in particular that left him very unimpressed during filming.
When asked who has been his worst celebrity has been over the past eight years since joining the show, the former SAS hardman confessed that we will end up finding out very soon.
Billy said: “Unfortunately, again, I can’t talk about this because it hasn’t come out.
“But you’ll see when the next one comes out… There’s a certain person on there, which I was just I couldn’t believe it.
“I was like… really?
“You have a chance here to do so many great things and you just can’t be bothered.”
He continued: “It’s a man just couldn’t be bothered to, he didn’t even get past day one. So there’s your answer.
“You’ll see him. I was disgusted, absolutely disgusted, to be honest, you know. So that was my worst one.
“I can’t say and I want to say it so bad but you’ll see.”
Billy has had an incredible career over the years, starting on the Parachute Regiment and later joining the SAS as a mountain troop specialist.
He served in the SAS for over 20 years and gone on to receive incredible awards including an MBE.
Rumoured Celebrity SAS line-up
Lady Leshurr
Conor Benn
Louie Spence
Lucy Spraggan
Bimini Bon Boulash
Adebayo “The Beast” Akinfenwa
Adam Collard
Chloe Burrows
Hannah Spearrit
Michaella McCollum
Troy Deeney.
Callum Izzard
Not only that, Billy has been a bodyguard for some of the biggest names in the showbiz industry including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
He earned more than £10,000 a month as a celebrity body guard, and despite the great money, he decided that it wasn’t for him.
Billy confessed: “You know, people don’t realize what being a bodyguard is all about. It’s hard work, you’ve got to remember for somebody to spoil your celebrity’s day, they only have to be lucky once.
“They have one lucky moment.
“For me as a bodyguard to keep that moment never happening. I have to be lucky every single day.
“which means you gotta be on top of your game every day. Now, what people don’t realize, these celebrities, particularly like Brad and Angie. They worked 15/16 hours a day every day.
“A lot you don’t see behind the scenes.
“So when they’re working 15 hours a day day, that means I’m working 18/19 hours a day, because when they go to bed and they’re resting, I’ve still got three hours work to do.
“I’ve got to check this out. I’ve got the vehicles ready. I’ve got the security ready. I’ve got the venue sorted.
“So there’s a lot of work behind the scenes. And the reason I say that I is because it’s difficult to rely on anybody else because if something goes wrong. It comes to me.
“I could never drivers, ever trust the drivers, because I don’t know I didn’t vet them. I couldn’t the extra security, because again. I don’t know, so I can’t trust them. So it was. It was hard work, so I was.
“So the reason I I left it after a long time. Actually, I did a long time. I did 17 months, I think, with Brad and Angie full on.
“In those 17 months. I think, I probably only had 2 weeks off, maybe.”
Right now the paratrooper is working towards his upcoming tour Always A Little Further tour.
It’s Billy’s fourth year on stage talking to people, and he loves it because of how diverse the audience is – with people as young as 11, all the way up to 90 years of age.
Billy teased: “I take people on a journey which is my journey through trials, tribulations, lessons learned, influential people, things have got right and things have got wrong.
“I’m very honest about the things I’m embarrassed about, but lessons I’ve learned, and I’m very proud of the stuff I’ve done since being the bad child I was to where I am now.”
The tour starts in October and wraps up in November this year, with extra dates in April 2025.
