Recruit for SAS: Who Dares Wins Grant was forced to miss work for more than a month after returning from filming to heal from injuries.
Grant, like Hilary and Joshua, passed the selection course after completing a series of difficult activities under the supervision of Head Instructor Billy Billingham and his Directing Staff, Jason ‘Foxy’ Fox, Rudy Reyes, and Chris Oliver.
Unfortunately, the challenges they faced did not end with filming, as Grant was left to heal when he returned home.
‘As a binman, you need your feet, so I was signed off work for four weeks,’ the 37-year-old explained in an interview with Metro.co.uk. I was suffering from jungle rot.’
‘I was called Sick Note because I took four weeks off work since my feet were so bad,’ he added.
‘I was on crutches and couldn’t walk because my feet swelled so terribly after getting back on the plane.
‘I had fat legs, fat feet, because they were so swollen, my feet were infected, because of how horrible they were, it was unavoidable.
‘After 14 hours of travelling after you’ve passed it, your feet are minging, you’ve done as much admin and care as you can, I couldn’t [work] with the bins.’
Yet Grant’s problems did not stop there.
He noticed he developed tendinitis in his wrists after returning to work.
The Scot told us: ‘I was signed off for another week, I should have been signed off for three weeks but I was like, there’s no way I’m getting the reputation of going on SAS: Who Dares Wins and then getting signed off work because I had what looked like a pedicure.
‘The guys at work are tough guys, so I’m trying to create this tough persona, like yeah I’ve just done SAS: Who Dares Wins but I can’t come to work because I’ve got jungle rot in my feet.’
He continued: ‘And after four weeks I went back, and I was like, guys, I’ve got tendonitis in my wrist, I need a steroid injection in my wrist, I’m going to have to take a week off not because I don’t want to come to work, [but] because I’ve been told because of the steroid injection, I need to allow that to kick in and then I can come back to work.’
A recent Channel 4 show featured some of the recruits’ trench foot-ridden feet.
Close-up camera angles revealed that the recruits were bruised and covered in plasters and bandages when they returned to the barracks.
Billy lectured the audience about what they were seeing, explaining that caring for one’s feet in the jungle may be quite tough.
‘The hardest thing you will have to deal with in the jungle is jungle rot,’ he said.
‘You’ve got to look after all the bits of your body, especially your feet as that’s the only way you are getting around,’ Billy added.
‘If they go down you are f***ed and you are no good to anyone and you will probably die. It’s that simple.’
SAS: Who Dares Wins is available to watch on All4.
Source My Celebrity Life.