‘Spice Ladies’ Mel B, Jamie Lynn Spears and extra study limits by Special Forces operatives on survival present

Between championship rings, tens of millions of information bought, worldwide fame and Olympic gold medals — they’ve practiced their complete lives to be on the high of their respective careers. 

Nonetheless, there was nothing that would put together these 16 celebrities, together with Jamie Lynn Spears, FIFA Girls’s World Cup champion Carli Lloyd, Mel B from the Spice Ladies, “The Bachelorette’s” Hannah Brown, and former MLB participant Mike Piazza for the bodily and psychological anguish of surviving grueling coaching from top-tier navy brokers in the midst of the desert for the brand new FOX survival present, “Special Forces: The Final Take a look at.”

NBA champion Dwight Howard instructed Fox News Digital that nothing may have actually ready him for this “transformative, life-changing expertise” working with former particular forges brokers Rudy Reyes, Mark “Billy” Billingham, Jason “Cunning” Fox and Remi Adeleke. 

“I’ve at all times revered our women and men in uniform, however doing one thing like this actually opened my eyes to point out how unbelievable the particular forces are, the true superheroes of our time, and I am glad I had this expertise,” the eight-time All-Star mentioned.

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Celebrities, together with Jamie Lynn Spears, Dwight Howard, Kate Gosselin, Actual Housewife Kenya Moore, Olympic gold medalist Carli LLoyd and Gus Kenworthy, are challenged on new FOX collection, “Special Forces: The Final Take a look at.”
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Billingham, who has additionally served as a personal bodyguard for Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Michael Caine, mentioned the “Special Forces world is 1% of the planet. It is a brutal actual world, and the present replicates that, and it is primarily based on expertise. Each single one in all us have been there and achieved it.  It is not telling some story. It is supplying you with a pattern of what our life is de facto like.”

Spice Ladies singer Mel B mentioned her journey on the present was “extra of a psychological” expertise and trusting herself to really having the ability to commit the method. 

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“To be in a state of affairs the place you might be actually getting firsthand experiences from professionals, from those who have served our nation, everybody’s nation, the DSs, (Directing Workers) I had a lot respect for them,” she mentioned. “What they taught you alongside the method was to only suck it up, comply with my orders, and it is all concerning the workforce effort.  No person’s left behind. That mentality and their experiences that they shared with us individually and us as a bunch —  you’ll be able to’t purchase that.” 

The celebrities, together with R&B musician Montell Jordan, “Actual Housewives” star Kenya Moore, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Beverly Mitchell from “seventh Heaven,” and Kate Gosselin of “Jon & Kate Plus 8” fame, confronted obstacles on a coaching facility in Wadi Rum, Jordan.

"Real Housewives" star Kenya Moore and NFL player Danny Amendola run through the desert in "Special Force: The Ultimate Test."

“Actual Housewives” star Kenya Moore and NFL participant Danny Amendola run by way of the desert in “Particular Drive: The Final Take a look at.”
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Jamie Lynn Spears and Mel B join Dwight Howard and Mike Piazza for 10 days of extreme challenges from special forces agents.

Jamie Lynn Spears and Mel B be a part of Dwight Howard and Mike Piazza for 10 days of utmost challenges from particular forces brokers.
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“I’ve at all times revered our women and men in uniform, however doing one thing like this actually opened my eyes to point out how unbelievable the particular forces are, the true superheroes of our time, and I am glad I had this expertise.” 

— Dwight Howard

NFL participant Danny Amendola, Olympian Nastia Liukin and Meals Community chef Tyler Florence additionally try and survive the epic challenges, which give attention to “emotional resilience, and revealing deepest and truest character.”

The guts-stopping trailer detailed confirmed the forged leaping out of helicopters and free-falling down canyon slopes. “An elite workforce of ex particular forces troopers will put them by way of a model of the extremely categorized particular forces coaching program. Every job primarily based on the true course,” the trailer revealed. “The one aim is to final 10 days with out quitting.” 

“You possibly can’t put together. It is nothing like we have ever skilled in our life. We thought — effectively, I do know for myself — I assumed that I may go simply practice like I might practice for basketball or the rest,” Howard mentioned. “However when you get there in that Wadi Rum desert, you already know, we came upon that it was no enjoyable in Wadi Rum.”

Dr. Drew agreed wholeheartedly. “I assumed I used to be coaching correctly for it, operating hills, operating with packs on, spending weeks simply specializing in that, which is likely one of the form of rewarding elements. As I obtained into the coaching, I assumed, ‘Hey, I can do that.’ However, no, no, the DS and the Wadi Rum could have its approach with you, it doesn’t matter what.”

Contestants must survive 10 days of extreme training in the desert from special forces operatives.

Contestants should survive 10 days of utmost coaching within the desert from particular forces operatives.
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Celebrity recruits had to jump out of helicopters and free-fall from canyon cliffs in the trailer for FOX's "Special Forces: The Ultimate Test." 

Celeb recruits needed to leap out of helicopters and free-fall from canyon cliffs within the trailer for FOX’s “Special Forces: The Final Take a look at.” 
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“Mentally, emotionally, you do not know what’s coming for you,” Lloyd mentioned. “It was actually surviving one minute, one hour, sooner or later. Me being knowledgeable athlete for therefore lengthy, you already know, bodily you’ll be able to practice for it. It was unbelievable.”

Piazza puzzled within the trailer if he “nonetheless had that fireplace” as he carried heavy baggage above his head earlier than making an attempt to flee a room full of smoke. 

“This expertise pushed you previous the purpose of exhaustion in contrast to something most likely all of us ever – we have by no means skilled that,” the previous Nationwide League Rookie of the Yr mentioned. 

“I imply, even the athletes right here who’ve skilled professionally. I feel the most important factor I form of come to appreciate was that while you get to some extent of pure exhaustion, then you definitely go into some different survival mode, and from there, it is struggle or flight, actually. You end up reacting in ways in which you by no means thought have been potential, each good and unhealthy for that matter.” 

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Spears agreed with Mel B that the “psychological preparation” was hardest as she was away from her two kids. 

World Cup winner and Olympian, Carli Lloyd, catches her breath during one particularly challenging water test.

World Cup winner and Olympian, Carli Lloyd, catches her breath throughout one notably difficult water check.
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“I imagine all of us, even the DS, we’re fiercely patriotic. We fought onerous for our nation in lots of fight zones all over the world. This turns into nearly a civics train for every recruit. You assume how blessed I’m to return from a rustic that has these liberties, that has these freedoms, as a result of that is the blood, the sweat, the tears it takes to guard it. And I feel it makes all of us come away with a deeper sense of affection for our nation and nation women and men.” 

— DS agent Rudy Reyes mentioned. 

"Special Forces: The Ultimate Test" agents include Directing Staff agents Rudy Reyes, Mark "Billy" Billingham, Jason "Foxy" Fox, and Remi Adeleke.

“Special Forces: The Final Take a look at” brokers embrace Directing Workers brokers Rudy Reyes, Mark “Billy” Billingham, Jason “Cunning” Fox, and Remi Adeleke.
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“I’ve to say that it’s the whole lot that I did not know I wanted,” the previous Nickelodeon star mentioned. “I actually went in there and obtained a lot out of it. It would not matter one second, 10 days, 20 days, you are taking a lot away from it. I’ve a lot extra respect only for what they go on the market and do. I imply, and it isn’t a present, it is actual life for them, and the sacrifices they make to be away from their kids. It was a perspective I wanted.”

“I imagine all of us, even the DS, we’re fiercely patriotic. We fought onerous for our nation in lots of fight zones all over the world,” DS agent Rudy Reyes mentioned. 

“This turns into nearly a civics train for every recruit. You assume how blessed I’m to return from a rustic that has these liberties, that has these freedoms, as a result of that is the blood, the sweat, the tears it takes to guard it. And I feel it makes all of us come away with a deeper sense of affection for our nation and nation women and men. 

Reyes added, “I discover it actually illuminating and good for my soul to recollect simply how blessed I’m.” 

“Special Forces: The Final Take a look at” premieres on FOX Jan. 4.

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