Pete Wicks is "gutted" to have been medically withdrawn from 'Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins'.
Pete Wicks has withdrawn from Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins
The 33-year-old star was left unconscious and suffering broken ribs after jumping from a helicopter with fellow recruit Ashley Cain, and was told to depart the programme because he needed a chest x-ray, and while he's disappointed not to have gone further in the competition, he understands why his stint was cut short.
He said: “I was gutted actually. This is a bit of a thing for me, it's like I've always wanted to do this show and the worst thing for me was to be taken out because that's something that I can't control.
"But being completely honest, they're a hundred percent right because I wouldn't have been able to carry on with my broken ribs.
"To have been out so early, I was absolutely gutted because it's a fail. And unfortunately now for me, I feel like I failed. It's something that will f****** haunt me because I just don't fail things.
" I don't say I'm going to do something and don’t do it, so I was genuinely so hurt, gutted, disappointed, f***** off and angry at myself. And I still am, to be honest, even a year later. That was tough for me. I felt like I'd let a lot of people down, I felt like I'd let myself down.”
Pete insisted there was no way he would have quit the show voluntarily.
He added: "The whole show is more mental than it is anything else and I wanted to get interrogated and I was just gutted not to even get that far. There was no way I was ever going to hand my armband in. I knew I never would, so to go out the way I did really hurt. To be withdrawn because you're physically unable to carry on for something that was an unfortunate accident, I just found really, really tough.”
The 'Only Way is Essex' star hopes he'll be able to take part again in the future.
He said: "One hundred percent, without a shadow of a doubt I'd do it tomorrow if they gave me another chance at the course. I feel like I’ve got unfinished business and I failed as far as I'm concerned. I want to put that right. It was something that is genuinely going to haunt me.
"I think there are so many things that happen on that show that would have benefitted me as a person. Everyone who’s been on it said they came out a changed person.
"I think that's the thing that I'm most sad about - that I didn't get an opportunity for that too - I really felt like I was beginning, after just a few days, to understand a little bit more about myself and why I am the way I am. I think that's what I missed out on.
"I really think the course would have changed my life. So to leave the way I did just left me quite angry. It’s left more than just a bitter taste in my mouth, I’m truly gutted.”
Amber Gill has also departed the programme after failing to complete a physical challenge on the beach.