Rebecca Loos is about to surprise Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins viewers when she’s interrogated about Sir David Beckham.
In 2004, Loos alleged she had an affair with the footballing hero shortly after he’d moved his family to Spain after signing with Real Madrid while she was working as his Personal Assistant.
More than 20 years on, the mother-of-two now lives in Norway as a qualified yoga teacher and A&E medical assistant and largely remained out of the spotlight until Beckham’s 2023 Netflix documentary renewed unwanted interest in the scandal.
Loos is part of the Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins line-up with the likes of Strictly’s Tasha Ghouri, Louis Spence and S Club 7’s Hannah Spearitt, and in a new trailer the controversial TV personality is shot at, punched in the face and can be seen breaking down in tears.
It’s all part of the course in the most challenging television show in Britain where a bunch of celebs who think they’re hard as nails get taken down a peg or 10 by an elite team of ex-Special Forces soldiers lead by chief instructor Billy Billingham.
He’s joined by Jason Fox, Rudy Reyes and Chris Oliver to push the cars to their emotional and physical limits, and, naturally, they interrogate Loos about the accusations she threw at Beckham which he continues to deny.
Speaking to The Telegraph though, Loos insisted that she remained unfazed as they grilled her about the alleged fling and was actually relieved that was the only ammo they had on her.
She explained: ‘I’ve been asked all those things hundreds of times before. It was all a bit: ‘Here we go again…”
‘I tried to answer clearly without giving them too much. Also, I’m one of the oldest people in there, so I have more experience with interviews and harsh questions.
‘If they had asked me about more issues that are fresher in my heart, like my youngest son’s diagnosis with a kind of autism just a few months before I went on the show, then they might have broken me down, got the waterworks going.’
The waterworks did eventually start pouring though. In a new trailer, Loos is shown frantically driving away from a masked shooter while later she’s seen with a fist to the face when the contestants are forced to battle each other in the ring without holding back.
The TV personality also bursts into tears, and cries: ‘I don’t know if I can do this.’
The end goal of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins is to last as long as possible without being ordered to pack your bags by an officer or throwing in the towel first.
Ahead of the first episode airing this Sunday, Loos said it was a ‘good time in my life to do this’.
She said: ‘When I was younger I loved doing extreme things. I was finalist in Spanish Survivor where I was surviving on an island for three months in Honduras, and I’ve done quite a few extreme things, and adventurous shows. So I just felt like it would be really interesting to do.’
Being in Norway, however, Loos was unfamiliar with SAS: Who Dares Wins and wasn’t prepared for quite how challenging it would be.
The 48-year-old admitted: ‘I really wish I had spoken to somebody who had done it before. I don’t live in the UK, and I don’t have much contact with a lot of people from the UK, so I have never watched this programme before.
‘I got to see clips on the internet, but I really wish I’d spoken to someone who’d been in there.’
She continued: ‘I really felt that I was the oldest and the least fit of the group and that was quite hard, which is why I guess that really ignited in me a mission to get into shape or at least get into a better shape. There was a boat challenge, when we had to blow up the boat and carry it for miles, that broke me.’
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins returns Sunday at 9pm on Channel 4.
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