This series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins features one of the most excruciating – and arguably worst ever – injuries in the show’s history, with X Factor star Lucy Spraggan revealing she tore her vulva.
Singer Lucy opened up about the agonising injury ahead of the programme’s continuation this weekend, explaining that she was left bleeding with a rip so severe that she is undergoing reconstructive surgery.
The 34-year-old’s wound was caused by a harness during a stunt and due to the level of bleeding and intensity of the show, she recalled her ‘dignity had gone’ when the doctor came over to inspect her.
‘I ripped my labia – it was bad,’ she told The Sun.
‘That’s not a common injury. Actually, genuinely, that’s never been the same, so much so I’m having some surgery soon to correct it.’
Revealing she didn’t ‘really know even what happened’ to cause the tear, Lucy’s best guess is simply that the harness ‘was tight’.
‘I was like: “This feels really bad. Surely there can’t be anything.” And I looked and there was a tear, there was lots of blood and the doctor came over and I turned around because at that point you literally don’t care about anything. Dignity has gone,’ she added.
She also explained that the medic initially thought it was her leg that was bleeding before she corrected them.
Horrific as that is, it’s also not the only injury the star suffered during filming for the series as she also almost knocked a tooth out, fainted and landed face-first in the sea after attempting to jump from a helicopter into a boat.
This left her with a black eye for her wedding day in June 2024 and forced her to have filler from under her eye dissolved after she ‘hit the sea so hard my filler migrated to the side of my face’.
Previous gruesome injuries from across the show’s series include Geordie Shore star Marnie Simpson’s breast implant becoming infected, Strictly Come Dancing star Pete Wicks knocked himself unconscious and breaking ribs and former soap star Jennifer Ellison puncturing her spleen.
Meanwhile Jake Quickenden was rushed into emergency surgery after tendons in his shoulder were ‘ripped off the bone’ and politician Matt Hancock infamously suffered from trench foot.
The 2025 edition of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins kicked off in dramatic style this month, with two participants quitting during the opening episode.
The famous faces were pushed straight into action as they were forced to plunge 26ft into the water and dash towards a speedboat to pick them up.
This proved S Club star Hannah Spearritt’s undoing as, looking visibly ill ahead of the second task, she handed in her armband to the directing staff with the words: ‘I’m done, I’m sorry, I’ve reached a point.’
Following hot on her heels was TV dancer Louie Spence, for whom the second task – to rescue three hostages from a building before blowing it up with a grenade – pushed him a step too far and he quit.
In the second episode, Love Island contestants Tasha Ghouri and Chloe Burrows, also voluntarily withdrew.
Remaining participants being guided through gruelling challenges by the elite team of ex-Special Forces soldiers, Chief Instructor Billy Billingham and his team of Directing Staff (DS) – Foxy (Jason Fox), Rudy Reyes and Chris Oliver – include Traitors winner Harry Clark, Rebecca Loos, Drag Race UK star Bimini Bon-Boulash, former Love Islander Adam Collard and former footballer Troy Deeney.
This year’s series was shot in Wales, the home of the first phase of SAS selection in real life.
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins continues on Sunday at 9pm on Channel 4.
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