Special Forces: World's Toughest Test
Household names endure some of the harshest, most grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual Special Forces selection process. There are no votes, and no eliminations – just survival. These celebrities, who are so used to being in the spotlight, quickly learn the meaning of "no guts, no glory" – and no glam.
Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 5, Episode 5, “Grit,” airs Wednesday, October 21, 2026 on FOX.
Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 5, Episode 5, “Grit,” airs Wednesday, October 21, 2026 on FOX.
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Season 5 episodes
- 1
Jungle Warfare source at TVmaze
FOX's ultimate celebrity social experiment returns, enlisting fifteen new recruits to endure some of the harshest, most grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual Special Forces selection process. This season, the recruits will be deployed deep in the Malaysian jungle. Upon arrival, they must plunge backwards from a hovering helicopter into the water below or risk failing.
- 2
Duty source at TVmaze
The recruits work together to retrieve a supply drop while dangling from a ladder 300 feet above the jungle canopy; a grueling obstacle course through the dense jungle tests the recruits' mental and physical stamina.
- 3
Trust source at TVmaze
Recruits pair off in a punishing round of hand-to-hand combat; the recruits must put the utmost trust in one another as their fate hangs off the steep edge of a cliff.
- 4
Leadership source at TVmaze
Day four challenges some recruits to lead their team in a hostage rescue in a race against time. Tensions rise when the recruits must infiltrate an enemy compound to gather information while under a powerful gas attack.
- 5
Grit source at TVmaze
On day five, the recruits must work together and rappel down a twenty-two-story building for an enemy extraction mission; the recruits navigate the treacherous terrain of the Malaysian jungle to clear out an abandoned camp.
Cast and crew
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- Shaun Dooley, Rudy Reyes
- Produced by
- Becky Clarke, Dave Sutton, Liam Humphreys, Sophie Leonard
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