BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Pete Wicks quits rival show after penning emotional letter

Pete Wicks quit Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins after penning an emotional letter to his mother. The reality star kicked of autumn by appearing in two shows at the same time having signed up to Strictly Come Dancing's 2024 series.

But after making it through to week four of the BBC One dance contest with dance partner Jowita Przystal, Pete was seen departing the brutal Channel 4 series on Monday night (October 7).

His decision to leave the show, which was pre-recorded in the South Island of New Zealand, being asked to write a note to his mum, who he once saved from taking her own life when he was 12 years old.

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He told The Sun newspaper: "I decided that night that I was in too deep. I hadn't prepared for the reading out of the letters. I said things that I think I shouldn't have said because I wasn't saying it to the right person. I thought, 'I need to go and say what I've said in this letter to my mum.' "

On Monday night's episode, Pete quit the show before a drill in which the recruits had to plunge into freezing cold waters in New Zealand.

Addressing the ex-Special Forces soldiers - Chief Instructor Billy Billingham and his team of Directing Staff (DS), Foxy (Jason Fox), Rudy Reyes and Chris Oliver - he said: "I've lost the fight, I've got nothing left, my head is not in it."

However, the 36-year-old star has now told how he has "absolutely no regrets" about his time on the programme. He said: "For them, it's life and death. But it's a TV show, and I'd reached my limit on a TV show. I've got absolutely no regrets about it."

It was Pete's second stint on the show, after he knocked himself unconscious jumping out of a helicopter and broke his ribs in the 2022 series.

In this year's Celebrity SAS series - which was filmed last year - Pete also got into some trouble when he had to be airlifted to safety after collapsing on a mountain.