Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test: Denise Richards, Trista Sutter and a Baldwin Brother Among Season 3 Recruits — Get Premiere Date

Fox has unveiled the 16 celebrity recruits enlisted to participate in Season 3 of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.

When the reality competition returns to Fox on Wednesday, Jan. 8 (at 8/7c), competitors will include actors Stephen Baldwin (The Usual Suspects), Kyla Pratt (Call Me Kat), Denise Richards (Wild Things) and Christy Carlson Romano (Even Stevens); former Bachelorettes Trista Sutter (the OG!) and Ali Manno (Fedotowsky); fellow reality-TV personality Brody Jenner; model/influencer Kayla Nicole; NFL Pro-Bowler Cam Newton; Super Bowl champion Golden Tate; Olympic swimming gold medalist Nathan Adrian; pro-surfer/model Alana Blanchard; pro-soccer player Landon Donovan; motocross champ Carey Hart; Olympic track-and-field star Marion Jones; and Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Jordyn Wieber.

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Season 3 of Special Forces will air two-hour, “super-charged” episodes over five consecutive Wednesdays. This time around, “the recruits will be training in Wales, the home of British Special Forces Selection, and will endure the harsh reality of ocean warfare,” according to Fox. “The recruits must learn the art of getting comfortable with being uncomfortable as they are faced with training challenges across the country’s vast terrain of both land and sea — including a high pressure hostage rescue, a treacherous ladder crossing between steep cliffs nearly 100 feet above the sea, a boat dunk drill where they will be submerged into the frigid ocean and tasked with performing essential survival duties, a surf immersion where they will have to control their panic in an exercise that takes them to the brink of drowning, and much more, while training exercises will be 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.

Special Forces is one of several shows Fox has on tap for midseason, including fellow returning series Alert: Missing Persons Unit, Animal Control, The Cleaning Lady, Family Guy, The Great North, Grimsburg, LEGO Masters and Next Level Chef. TVLine will keep you posted once the network reveals its complete winter/spring 2025 schedule.

Watch a trailer for Special Forces above, then hit the comments with your reactions to this year’s cast.

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