Celebrities mightiness beryllium known for surviving pampered lives, but 16 stars conscionable took connected the situation of a beingness for the show Special Forces: The World’s Toughest Test, retired Jan. 4, 2023 connected Fox. The amusement sent a squad of actors, athletes, and entertainers overseas to acquisition the grueling tests utilized to weed retired elite soldiers for the military’s elite Special Forces squad.
Over 2 weeks, competitors braved the harsh godforsaken elements portion being pushed them to their carnal and intelligence limits. The stars came from an array of worlds, each with antithetic skills. Among them, were NFL alum Danny Amendola, erstwhile Spice Girl Mel B, Bachelor Nation’s Hannah Brown, Food Network’s Tyler Florence, world ma Kate Gosselin, hoops prima Dwight Howard, singer/producer Montell Jordan, Olympians Gus Kenworthy and Nastia Liukin, shot prima Carli Lloyd, 7th Heaven prima Beverley Mitchell, Bravo Housewife Kenya Moore, shot large Mike Piazza, Dr. Drew Pinsky, erstwhile Trump acolyte Anthony Scaramucci, and actress Jamie Lynn Spears.
On the show, they were tasked to “survive demanding grooming exercises” led by Directing Staff (DS) agents Rudy Reyes, Mark “Billy” Billingham, Jason “Foxy” Fox, and Remi Adeleke, each ex-special forces operatives. Among the challenges? Diving straight disconnected of a speeding boat, escaped falling retired of helicopters, and virtually getting acceptable connected fire, conscionable to start.
While nary of the stars knew what they were successful for, Jamie Lynn and Beverley particularly felt similar food retired of water, arsenic they explained successful an EXCLUSIVE interrogation with HollywoodLife.
While Jamie Lynn was prepped for immoderate of the carnal tasks, from her regular fittingness training, she admitted determination was nary mode to hole “for thing similar this.” The Nickelodeon prima said, “The intelligence broadside was the astir unexpected. That was the biggest portion for me, truly mentally preparing yourself to conscionable dive into this afloat unit and not look back. I deliberation that was thing I privation I would person done a spot much due to the fact that I was similar “Oh my god, I consciousness truthful blameworthy astir not being with my kids, but this is what I’m present to do.”
For Beverley, it was astir getting backmost into enactment entirely. “So, I lone had a week [to prepare,” the 90s prima said. “I tried, but I hadn’t worked retired successful 10 years. Like, I’ve got 3 kids! I deliberation the astir I bash is locomotion astir my kids’ shot practice. Was I acceptable to tally done a desert?”
“No one’s acceptable for that,” Jamie Lynn went on. “There’s nary existent mode to bid for this, unless possibly you’re an Olympic athlete,” to which Beverley chimed successful saying, “I mean, immoderate we’re not naming names.” Jamie Lynn was acceptable to punctual america of her ain peculiar skills, telling everyone, “Hey, I person a Kids Choice award.”
Though the acquisition was grueling, some ladies were successful awe of the connections they made. Beverley explained, “We were each successful that aforesaid boat, determination was nary peculiar treatment.”
Jamie Lynn revealed however everyone ended up relying connected 1 another. She told HL, “We each bonded astatine 1 clip oregon another, and it was due to the fact that determination was nary clip to deliberation astir it. You needed each different to get through, it was surviving and that enslaved drove everything.”
People tin spot however Jamie Lynn, Beverley and the others toughed it done their ngo when Special Forces: The World’s Toughest Test premieres Jan. 4, 2023 astatine 8 p.m. connected Fox.
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