Four celebrities crashed out of RTE’s Ultimate Hell Week on Wednesday night after gruelling tasks saw them take on treacherous conditions and a catastrophic helicopter crash.
Once again it was a case of fight or flight for the remaining 15 recruits on the hit series this week, as they were put through the next set of rigorous physical and mental tests on the torturous trail.
But it all proved too much for Mrs Brown’s Boys star Fiona O’Carroll, RTE broadcaster Blathnaid Treacy, GAA footballer Boidu Sayeh and social media sensation Tadhg Fleming as they all bowed out of the course last night.
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After hours of trekking through tough weather conditions and crawling through a mud trail in ‘Scratch’, which is known to be one of the toughest and most punishing events on the Hell Week course, Dubliner Fiona was the first to fall - reluctantly at the request of the DS in charge.
Chief Instructor Ray Goggins said: “You can’t keep up. You are not up to this. Regardless of what is in your heart.”
They added: “All you did was all you could do. 100% all right.
“You fought for two hours. You didn’t quit.”
Reluctant to end her time there, an exhausted Fiona said: “I didn’t want to, he demanded it. I wasn’t ready to go. In fact I was really angry. If I was given one more chance, I’d probably go out and do it all again.”
Despite her exit from the show viewers at home were impressed by her determination, with one person writing on Twitter: "“That’s tough, but she fought till the end."
Another agreed saying: “Gutted to see number 2 taken out by the ds tonight. She was fighting hard.”
A third added: "Fair play 2, what a fighter #HellWeek."
RTE radio and TV presenter Blathnaid Treacy followed soon after Fiona, saying: “Your body is so sore and you are starving. And I kept trying to get control of my breathing, and trying to warm myself up.
“The thoughts of doing anything else, it was like now is the time. I did my best, and it was just the right time, I had nothing left in me.
“And I just kept thinking of like a hot shower, and a warm bed.”
Instagram star Tadhg Fleming also tapped out, admitting his body gave up.
“My legs weren’t working,” he said.
“I couldn’t even talk. My mouth was gone dry. The whole body just shut down. Even if I did make it, I think the next day then would have been even tougher.
“So I just had to call it a day unfortunately.”
Westmeath footballer Boidu Sayeh was the fourth to hand in his arm band and call it a day after the gruelling course.
He said: “I felt like if I didn’t give over my number, it probably would have been very soon after anyway, so I think it was my time to go.
The DS chiefs admitted they were surprised to see him go, but said it is a common ‘infection’ like trend that can happen when one decides to leave.
They said: “I’m surprised he went, but it just came down to that mentality.”
“Within two or three minutes we had two or three people drop out.”
“They fell for a trick basically, thinking that they had a lot more of it when they really didn’t.”
They added: “That sort of infection started to happen.
“Where once one person goes, you often get more going. They start seeing it and think, oh well she’s going and he is going. And that’s what happened.”
Eleven recruits are now remaining and will go on to the next round.
But many did not go unscathed after the testing episode, with Johnny Ward admitting he was ‘struggling’ to go on.
After Scratch, he said: “We were all so emotional after it because we thought it would never end. That was hell. That was awful.”
Later on in the episode, following a task which saw the recruits encounter a helicopter crash with catastrophic injuries to tend to as part of training exercise, he added:
“That’s probably the most embarrassed and anxious I've ever been. I’m struggling, big time.”
Ahead of the programme, the former Love/Hate and Fair City star admitted he was ‘dreading’ watching the scenes back.
The Dubliner said: “I have been dreading tonight's episode for such a long time now that I'm not even going to watch it live. It's been haunting me and has got the better of me in my dreams since shooting it.
“Please please can you make it worthwhile by donating any amount to my chosen charity
"The Capuchin day Centre"
“They do Incredible work for the Homeless and with People not carrying cash anymore and houses going through the roof it doesn't look like it's going to get any better!”
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