"Still, she's alive. "I'm alive! I didn't die," she cheers over Zoom, calling from home in Australia, her dogs Biscuit and Harli barking around her. "I got a staph infection in my knees and I was bruised and battered, but the most thing that I'm proud of is that I came out with my head held high, and I was really proud of what I achieved in every scenario.""
"They were like, 'Well you have to. You can't just not do that.' So I said no, and then this time I was like, 'Oh, surely it's not as bad as it looks,'" Bassingthwaighte recalls. It's surely down to some gleefully conniving producer then that in the very first episode of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins season eight, which started on 4 January, the former Neighbours star is left wretching on the dusty ground, having just had the living daylights beaten out of her"
"When 50-year-old Bassingthwaighte, affectionately known by fans as Nat Bass, was first offered SAS a few years back, she "wasn't in the best space mental health wise", she says. The famously gruelling TV show, which sees celebrities forced to undertake ruthless challenges that actual military recruits in the UK's Special Air Service have to do, isn't for the fainthearted. Lucy Spraggan tore her labia."
Natalie Bassingthwaighte initially declined Celebrity SAS because she refused to do the show's fighting challenges. She later agreed to take part in season eight and was beaten by Love Island's Gabby Allen in the first episode yet survived. She completed a breath-holding challenge after being plunged into a lake and later suffered a staph infection in her knees and extensive bruising. She reports leaving the show proud, with her head held high. Bassingthwaighte had previously not been in a good mental-health space when first offered the show. The series is famously gruelling, with contestants sustaining serious injuries and emotional breakdowns.
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