Scots actor John Barrowman sensationally quit Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins only 32 minutes after arriving at the base camp, and now his eye-watering fee has come to light.
The Glasgow-born actor, 57, was featured in the Channel 4 show’s sixth series, which premiered on Sunday night. The programme displays celebrities undergoing gruelling SAS winter combat training on New Zealand’s southern isles.
Doctor Who star Barrowman had previously addressed the flashing events he experienced in 2021 during his participation, was shown being sick after the initial trial, as reported by PA.
Following the kit-up and anticipation of their lodgings, the overwhelmed actor began to retch and informed his fellow co-stars bluntly by alerting them “I’m out”.
Details regarding his significant fee have now surfaced. Barrowman earned a staggering £30,000 despite his brief 32-minute stay at the campsite, the Mirror reports.
This means John amassed an extraordinary £937.50 per minute during his short engagement on the reality survival series. He departed shortly after he was witnessed vomiting ahead of an upcoming challenge.
The actor maintained that eating ‘vile tofu’, the only food option provided at the base camp, led to his nausea. As someone who is staunchly not a vegetarian or vegan and has a fondness for meat, the actor expressed how the tofu made him feel particularly unwell.
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Speaking to The Sun, he shared insights into the real cause of his unexpected departure from the fan-favourite Channel 4 reality series. “I would never eat tofu in my life, but you’re so hungry, you just eat it,” he revealed.
The ordeal escalated for John, who also faces severe travel sickness, when he endured a rough two-hour car ride after consuming the tofu, a decision that turned out to be his breaking point.
“Then it was projectile vomit everywhere and the tofu came up. I thought ‘I’m not going to make myself ill or hurt myself in order to try to prove something that I don’t need to prove’,” he declared with conviction. “And it was seriously me going ‘I am completely comfortable with who I am. I’m completely a happy person. We’ve all got our issues and problems, but I’ve made a mistake’.”
When Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham asked whether he would consider seeing a doctor, John replied firmly: “No… I’m done.” He went on to explain: “I just… it’s not for me, I know who I am and what I’m about, it’s not for me.” The show’s narrator noted: “After only 32 minutes on base, number 13 John is the first recruit to leave the course.”
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