{"id":23897,"date":"2022-10-16T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1722519"},"modified":"2022-10-16T23:33:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T21:33:27","slug":"maisie-smith-celebrity-sas-who-dares-wins-felt-like-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/maisie-smith-celebrity-sas-who-dares-wins-felt-like-life-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Maisie Smith: \u2018Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins felt like life and death\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Grace Henry\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 16 October 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>After seven weeks of intense challenge, EastEnders actress Maisie Smith emerged from Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins 2022 as one of the four winners of the special selection process.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">RadioTimes.com<\/a> following her win, the 21-year-old admitted to feeling \u201crelieved\u201d at the show coming to an end, adding it felt like \u201clife and death\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On the moment Rudy Reyes revealed that she\u2019d passed, she said: \u201cIt was a pretty amazing feeling. It was like nothing else because when you\u2019re there, it did really feel like life and death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll you wanted was to make it and I think my biggest fear on the show wasn\u2019t the heights, it wasn\u2019t the beatings, it was the fear of failing. So, I think at the end when I actually passed, it was just the most overwhelming feeling. I\u2019ve never felt anything like it!\u201d<\/p> <p>Despite how difficult the experience was, Maisie never thought of giving up, saying: \u201cI think obviously there were moments where I thought this was so painful, almost torturous, like in the interrogation rooms where we had the headphones on and were being dunked in ice water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it never crossed my mind to leave because I thought, \u2018I\u2019ll just hit myself\u2019. So I always had that thought in my head not to give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, she admits she would have been \u201cgutted\u201d if she didn\u2019t pass, following her final challenge, which she says was the \u201chardest\u201d one.<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cI think I would have been gutted if they\u2019d have turned around and said, \u2018You haven\u2019t [passed].\u2019 I\u2019d be like, \u2018So you\u2019ve just made me climb that for nothing?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with Ferne McCann, AJ Pritchard and Calum Best, Maisie managed to pass the selection process out of the 14 contestants in the <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/celebrity-sas-2022-confirms-cast-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins 2022 line-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking for something else to watch? 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