At 61, Fatima Whitbread is twice the age of some of her fellow recruits on Channel 4 ’s Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins – and she is relishing the chance to change the opinion of anyone who expected her to struggle.
“I want to prove this old biddy’s still got it,” she said as she took up the challenge.
And it didn’t take long. Before the first show was over, the former world title-holding javelin thrower had been declared “a legend” by tough instructor Rudy Reyes.
