Strictly's Pete Wicks explains heartbreaking reason he quit Celeb SAS
Pete Wicks has quit Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins for a second time amid painful memories of his mother while filming in New Zealand. Viewers tuned in to an emotional episode of the show, in which the TOWIE star told the instructors: “I’ve lost the fight, I’ve got nothing left, my head is not in it.”
The star has now opened up about the moments before he unravelled, revealing he was asked to write an emotional letter to his mother, who he saved from a suicide attempt when he was just 12 years old. “I decided that night that I was in too deep,” the Strictly Come Dancing star told The Sun.
“I hadn’t prepared for the reading out of the letters," Pete said. "I thought, ‘I need to go and say what I’ve said in this letter to my mum’.”
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Pete, who has also starred in Celebs Go Dating, was also forced to quit the show in 2022. when he knocked himself unconscious and broke his ribs during a challenge.
Despite the struggles, Pete confirmed he had ‘no regrets’ about his time on the show. “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,” he told the publication.
Pete recently opened up about how he found his mum Tracy, who he refers to as ‘the strongest woman I know’ in their kitchen after she attempted suicide. In his memoir, Never Enough: My Words Unfiltered, Pete revealed how he rang his nan Doreen for help and then called an ambulance before trying to stem the flow of blood and keep his mum alive.
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“But when I came over to her, it’s like she woke up. She looked up at me with eyes full of tears. ‘I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry,’ she kept repeating. I told her it was okay as I panicked trying to work out what to do. I called Nan. I could barely get the words out to describe what had happened. I think I basically just said, ‘Mum... knife... blood,’” he wrote.
Pete is now starring on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, taking to the dance floor with professional partner, Jowita Przystał, which he previously said was harder than SAS.
In a previous interview with Loose Women, the star said: “It's the toughest by far, I did Celebrity SAS twice and this is harder, it's more intense and it's so far out of my comfort zone.”
