Celebrity SAS star Melinda Messenger recalls meeting fiancé on show
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins star Melinda Messenger has revealed she met her fiancé Raj Joshi while filming the show.
Melinda will make her debut on the Channel 4 reality show in tonight’s (September 26) premiere, and the television presenter revealed that she became engaged to Raj after getting close during filming.
“That’s the greatest thing that came out [of] the show for me,” she told The Sun. “So when I came out, I was crying, sweat, blood tears, and wee, I am not kidding you, in this old sports bra and cycling shorts covered in bruises and foot rot.
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“The producer was like, ‘Do you want to see the doctor? You may as well. Just pop in and just have a quick chat’. We just carried on chatting after that and that was it. So the show changed my life in more ways than one, and I’m truly thankful for that.”
The latest series sees Melinda compete against other celebrities including Jermaine Pennant, Gareth Gates and Siva Kaneswaran in the jungles of Vietnam, with the group being put through their paces by a team of former special forces officers.
“It wasn’t about winning it or being good or anything like that. That didn’t matter. Actually, what I got from it was way more valuable and will last me a lifetime,” said Melinda of her time on the show.
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“I never thought it felt good to exercise, [but] I realised [that], even though I hated it at the time, I felt really good for it. So I did the weirdest thing that probably anybody would ever do which is do that programme, come out and then start exercising and training.
“It inspired me to do that. It ignited this physical spark in me that I didn't know existed. I love being pushed and tested and challenged physically. It feels good. The physical challenge translates psychologically to feeling psychologically and mentally fitter.”
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins will return to Channel 4 on Tuesday, September 26 at 9.30pm and then moves to Sunday at 9pm from October 1.
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