The new season of SAS Australia promises to be nothing short of explosive – but New Idea can exclusively reveal that one moment during filming was so distasteful, it will never see the light of day.
One celebrity recruit, speaking to New Idea anonymously, explains that former tennis ace, Alicia Molik, was subjected to an intimidating and hostile verbal attack from one of the directing staff that left her rattled to the core!
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Ex-special forces soldier Ant Middleton is said to be behind the confrontation. Our insider claims all those who witnessed it were left questioning their involvement in the reality program.
After Alicia, 40, failed to complete a challenge in a way that Ant considered acceptable, the insider explains he launched a tirade against her, repeatedly using a four-letter word unfit for print.
“He was standing nose to nose with her, virtually spitting in her face, saying, ‘You are a dumb…,’” the celebrity recruit explains. “Alicia was trembling and crying, and he just kept going at her. I think it is the worst dressing down I have witnessed and obviously the most shocking incident on this season’s show,” the source continues.
While none of the recruits were under the impression the quasi-military experience would be easy, the insider says they could not believe what they were seeing when former solider Ant, also 40, raged at Alicia.
“It was totally unacceptable. We couldn’t believe what we were seeing. I don’t care what the circumstances are, you cannot talk to people like that – especially a woman,” the famous recruit vents.
They even go as far as to say Ant should be removed from the reality program entirely. “Ant needs to go. He’s already been called out for his behaviour in the UK.”
Without a doubt, Ant has proven to be one the show’s most polarising characters and has made no shortage of headlines. In March, it was announced he had been dropped from the UK series of the show, SAS: Who Dares Wins, after he made controversial comments about the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement.
The UK’s Channel 4 announced Ant, who hosted the show between 2015 and 2020, was dropped over his “personal conduct”. In a statement, Channel 4 said that it had “become clear that our views and values are not aligned”.
In May, Ant also opened about his “alcohol-fuelled mistake” that led to him spending time in jail back in 2013.
“I spent four months in prison for the assault of two police officers outside a nightclub,” the published author explained of the situation, which saw him convicted of unlawful wounding of one police officer and of common assault upon a second in 2013. He was sentenced to 14 months in prison, but only served four.
In 2015, Ant told the UK’s Mirror that he was “filled with remorse” over the shocking incident, which he says resulted from the difficulties involved with transitioning from military to civilian life.
Read more in this week’s New Idea, on sale now.
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