{"id":13621,"date":"2022-04-10T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1623756"},"modified":"2022-04-10T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T08:24:20","slug":"sas-who-dares-wins-ds-billy-billingham-discusses-replacing-ant-middleton","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/sas-who-dares-wins-ds-billy-billingham-discusses-replacing-ant-middleton\/","title":{"rendered":"SAS: Who Dares Wins DS Billy Billingham discusses replacing Ant Middleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lauren Morris\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 10 April 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>SAS: Who Dares Wins star Mark \u2018Billy\u2019 Billingham has spoken about the show replacing former Chief Instructor Ant Middleton for the upcoming run, saying that \u201cit\u2019s sometimes good to change things up\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton, who was the Channel 4 reality show\u2019s Chief Instructor for five seasons, left <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sas-who-dares-wins-2022-release-date\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">SAS: Who Dares Wins<\/a> last March, with former US Marine Rudy Reyes taking over his role for season 7.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">RadioTimes.com<\/a> in an exclusive interview, directing staff member Billy opened up about Middleton\u2019s departure from the show and how Reyes differed to him as a Chief Instructor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" 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People want things to run the same forever, but you have to keep moving with the times and it\u2019s sometimes good to spark things up and change things up.<\/p> <p>\u201cWe just embraced it and [Reyes] did a great job. It was different, [they\u2019re] totally different people, you know, but it just goes to show that the show is such a success. It\u2019s not about one person, it\u2019s about a team and it\u2019s about different characters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cIt was just different to the way it is now and we\u2019ve adapted to that and I think the audience will love it. And maybe the next one, who knows what we\u2019ll change up?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new season of SAS: Who Dares Wins will see 20 new recruits head to the Jordanian desert to face the instructors\u2019 gruelling challenges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SAS: Who Dares Wins 2022 begins on Sunday 10th April at 9pm on Channel 4. 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