Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, FOX’s ultimate celebrity social experiment, will return for its third season on Wednesday, January 8 (8:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT). Each week during the five-week event will have a two-hour episode that features household names enduring some of the harshest, most grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual Special Forces selection process.
This time around, the recruits will be training in Wales, the home of British Special Forces Selection, and will endure the harsh reality of ocean warfare. The recruits must learn the art of getting comfortable with being uncomfortable as they are faced with training challenges across the country’s vast terrain of both land and sea.
The challenges include a high pressure hostage rescue, a treacherous ladder crossing between steep cliffs nearly 100 feet above the sea, a boat dunk drill where they will be submerged into the frigid ocean and tasked with performing essential survival duties, a surf immersion where they will have to control their panic in an exercise that takes them to the brink of drowning, and much more.
In this experiment, there are no votes and no eliminations – just survival. The celebrities, who are so used to being in the spotlight, will quickly learn the meaning of “no guts, no glory” – and no glam.
Selection for the Special Forces is a test unlike any other. Sixteen celebrities from all genres and walks of life, will take on, and try to survive, demanding training exercises led by Directing Staff (DS) agents Rudy Reyes, Mark “Billy” Billingham, Jason “Foxy” Fox and Jovon “Q” Quarles, an elite team of ex-special forces operatives.
In this unique series, the only way for these recruits to leave is to give up on their own accord, through failure or potential injury, or by force from the DS.
Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test is the ultimate test of physical, mental and emotional resilience – revealing these celebrities’ deepest and truest character. Who will survive, who will fail?
The series is produced by Minnow Films. Becky Clarke, Liam Humphreys and Alicia Kerr serve as executive producers. You can meet the 16 celebrity recruits for season three of the FOX series below.
SPECIAL FORCES: WORLD’S TOUGHEST TEST SEASON 3 CAST
NATHAN ADRIAN
Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist
STEPHEN BALDWIN
Actor
ALANA BLANCHARD
Pro-Surfer and Model
LANDON DONOVAN
Pro Soccer Player
CAREY HART
Motocross Champion
BRODY JENNER
TV Personality and DJ
MARION JONES
Olympic Track and Field Athlete
ALI MANNO (FEDOTOWSKY)
Influencer and Former Bachelorette
CAM NEWTON
NFL Pro-Bowler
KAYLA NICOLE
Influencer and Model
KYLA PRATT
Actress
DENISE RICHARDS
Actress
CHRISTY CARLSON ROMANO
Actress and Podcast Host
TRISTA SUTTER
Original Bachelorette
GOLDEN TATE
Super Bowl Champion
JORDYN WIEBER
Olympic Gymnastics Gold Medalist
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills to provide the latest news on streaming, movies, and TV shows. He previously created the websites ComingSoon, SuperHeroHype, and ShockTillYouDrop.