Pete Wicks quit Celebrity SAS Who Dares Wins for heart-breaking reason

Pete Wicks quit 'Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins' after penning an emotional letter to his mother.

The 'Strictly Come Dancing' competitor departed the brutal Channel 4 series on Monday night (07.10.24) after being asked to write a note to his mum, who he once saved from taking her own life when he was 12 years old.

He told The Sun newspaper: "I decided that night that I was in too deep.

"I hadn’t prepared for the reading out of the letters.

"I said things that I think I shouldn’t have said because I wasn’t saying it to the right person.

"I thought, 'I need to go and say what I’ve said in this letter to my mum.' "

On Monday night's episode, Pete quit the show before a drill in which the recruits had to plunge into freezing cold waters in New Zealand.

Addressing the ex-Special Forces soldiers - Chief Instructor Billy Billingham and his team of Directing Staff (DS), Foxy (Jason Fox), Rudy Reyes and Chris Oliver - he said: "I’ve lost the fight, I’ve got nothing left, my head is not in it."

However, the 36-year-old star has now told how he has "absolutely no regrets" about his time on the programme.

He said: "For them, it’s life and death.

"But it’s a TV show, and I’d reached my limit on a TV show.

"I’ve got absolutely no regrets about it."

It was Pete's second stint on the show, after he knocked himself unconscious jumping out of a helicopter and broke his ribs in the 2022 series.

In this year's 'Celebrity SAS' series - which was filmed in New Zealand last year - Pete also got into some trouble when he had to be airlifted to safety after collapsing on a mountain.