Pete Wicks forced to withdraw from Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins after breaking ribs
12.09.2022 - 08:19
/ msn.com
became the second recruit to leave the latest edition of the Channel 4 series, following Love Island’s Amber Gill, and medically withdrew shortly after being seen floating face down in the sea. In shocking scenes that aired on Sunday night, disaster struck not long after Pete jumped from a helicopter with reality star Ashley Cain in a helo-cast task. Rescue swimmers raced to help the 33-year-old and quickly flipped him over in the water as the concerned recruits were heard saying from the shoreline: ‘Someone’s struggling.
’After swimming to shore, Pete told a medic: ‘I winded myself and passed out, all my ribs are quite painful and my head is banging. ’He later said: ‘I had no worries about that challenge, which is the weirdest thing. My strongest thing is probably swimming.
‘I genuinely thought this would be the challenge for me to show what I f****** got and I got it wrong, I got it very wrong. I think my leg got a little bit caught in the bag and I went straight down onto the bag, knocked myself out, and broke my ribs. ‘I felt dazed and confused.
I was struggling to move my upper body. Basically, I think where I’d hit the bag, and I think just the impact of being unconscious and everything else, I was very confused. ‘I didn’t really know exactly what was going on and even moving my arms was quite painful, just because the pressure that was on my ribs and everything, so it just wasn’t nice.
It was just a strange, strange experience. ’Following his accident, the Channel 4 show’s chief medical officer medically withdrew Pete because he needed to have a chest X-ray. New chief instructor Rudy Reyes, who took over from Ant Middleton, told him: ‘The issue is you have some damage and the course is going to get much harder
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