Geordie Shore’s Marnie Simpson says she was convinced she was going to die undertaking a terrifying task on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.
The reality TV star, 32, took part in a dare-devil trainasium task - used in military exercises to prepare people for getting confident with heights and suitability for parachuting.
She said: “I still thought there was a chance I could die on that trainasium, even though I know it’s a Channel 4 show. I still thought I could be an unlucky person who dies!”.
Describing her ordeal she said: “What was horrible about that task is the thing [wire] is attached to our backs so you can not feel it at all.
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“If I had felt like a slight tug, I would have been a little more secure but I could not feel anything. So it just felt like I was walking across this plank and I did not like the feeling of having no support.”
Despite the fear factor Marnie, who heralds from Consett in County Durham, said she still couldn’t resist taking part in the experience to challenge herself.
She’s one of 15 celebs taking part in the sixth series of the gruelling Channel 4 show which sees pepole put through their paces by four former SAS operators.
The series was filmed last year in New Zealand but will hit our screens on this Sunday, Septmber 22, with new episodes each week on a Sunday and Monday. John Barrowman, Strictly Pete Wicks, Olympic gymnast Ellie Downie, former boxer Anthony Ogogo, Bianca Gascoigne and Boris Johnson ’s sister Rachel are among the other names taking part.
Marnie said: “I think because I’ve always enjoyed watching the show and it’s one of my favourites that it was definitely at the top of the list of things that I wanted to challenge myself with.
“It was just always something that I wanted to see if I would be able to do but it is probably the most difficult reality show that I have ever been in.”
Marnie, who shares children Rox, four, and Oax, one, with husband and former X Factor star Casey Johnson, also admitted: “Childbirth and pregnancy, that is definitely up there. The stress of parenthood is really intense but I think apart from health problems and stuff, nothing comes close to how hard this experience was.
“When we first started, they got us off the bus and put the bags over our heads and were making us march. That set the scary tone. From that moment, I was just like ‘We do not know what is going to happen. Anything can occur’.”
Earlier this month Marnie posted a clip from the upcoming series, telling her 5.6million Followers: “Freezing temperatures and extreme heights were definitely some of the hardest challenges I’ve had to face.”
The former Celebrity Big Brother star said: “I was just not physically prepared at all - not in the slightest.
“I’d had a baby 11 months prior by C-section and then I also had a breast uplift. So I literally went in there like three weeks after surgery, and after a C-section. My baby had colic, so I’d not slept in like six months.”
- Celebrity SAS begins Sunday September 22. It will be shown every Sunday and Monday on Channel 4, 9pm.
