Denise Richards, Stephen Baldwin, Cam Newton & Brody Jenner Join ‘Special Forces’ Season 3

A new batch of celebrities has enlisted in the televised challenge Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.

On Friday, Fox revealed the cast for Season 3 of its star-studded social experiment, which returns for a special five-week event on Jan. 8 at 8pm ET, seeing 16 celeb recruits taking on the actual challenges of the Special Forces selection process.

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Led by Directing Staff (DS) agents Rudy Reyes, Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham, Jason ‘Foxy’ Fox and Jovon ‘Q’ Quarles — an elite team of ex-special forces operatives — this season’s lineup features Denise Richards, Stephen Baldwin, Brody Jenner, Cam Newton, Kyla Pratt, Christy Carlson Romano, Carey Hart, Nathan Adrian, Alana Blanchard, Landon Donovan, Marion Jones, Ali Manno, Kayla Nicole, Trista Sutter, Golden Tate and Jordyn Wieber.

The two-hour episodes will take the recruits to train in Wales, the home of British Special Forces Selection, where they will face challenges on both land and sea. Their ocean warfare test will include a high-pressure hostage situation, a treacherous ladder cross between steep cliffs, a boat dunk drill and a surf immersion that will take them to the brink of drowning.

Teaching them the meaning of “no guts, no glory,” the only way for the recruits to leave is to give up, through failure or potential injury, or by force from the DS.

Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test is produced by Minnow Films. Becky Clarke, Liam Humphreys and Alicia Kerr serve as executive producers.

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