Following erroneous reports of Ant Middleton confirming his return to the Channel Seven show, Merrick Watts has revealed he will not be appearing in SAS Australia.
Speaking on The Fox’s Fifi, February & Nick on Tuesday, the 50-year-old comedian set the record straight. sun herald It was reported that he will play the role of a member of the DS team.
“Some people have asked me, but this is the first time I’ve talked to the media about this because the media haven’t bothered to ask me about it,” he said on radio.
‘He just wrote it, I read it and thought, ‘That’s interesting, I didn’t know that.’ So this is news to me.
-So, look, I mean, I’m just waiting for the call from Channel Seven to tell me I got the job. But apart from this I don’t have any job. This is not true.
Co-host Fifi Fields asked Watts if the term ‘period is also a choice’, to which she replied: ‘No. Not only did he not talk to me about it, but no one talked to me about it. He never came forward.
‘I don’t know how this happened. “Apparently someone had a little laugh,” he added.
‘This is baseless, a lie. I will not return to SAS Australia.
Merrick Watts (pictured) has revealed he will not be appearing in SAS Australia after erroneous reports from Ant Middleton confirmed his return to the Channel Seven show.
The role of the DS is to guide the competitors through the course before reporting to head coach Middleton on their progress and ability.
On Friday, former UK Special Forces soldier Ant Middleton told publication NewsCorp that Watts would be part of the directing team, making him the first Australian DS member on the show.
‘Merrick Watts, he’s coming as a DS, one of the steering team, he’ll be with me in the next SAS,’ he said.
‘I think the cat is out of the bag now. We have to keep developing (the present), keep updating.
Watts successfully passed the rigorous selection course during the first season of SAS Australia in 2020.
Following her stint on the show, the radio presenter revealed how signing up for the Channel Seven show helped her get through her darkest moments.
Watts successfully passed the rigorous selection course during the first season of SAS Australia in 2020
On Friday, Ant Middleton (pictured) told Herald Solar that Watts would be part of the directing team, making him the first Australian DS member on the show.
The father of two said he was in the “worst psychological state” before agreeing to take part in the programme.
After talking to his doctor, he saw a psychologist and even took a 10-week mediation course, but “nothing” was working.
“I felt like I was being ruined,” Watts said during an interview with Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa at the time.
‘I did everything right, I spoke to a psychologist, I spoke to my doctor, I did a 10-week meditation course. Nothing was working. I know I needed to rebuild my confidence.
Watts said he knew that joining SAS Australia would help him ‘rebuild his confidence’.
‘When I’m confident, I’m very, very capable. When I’m not confident, I go back within myself… I knew that the preparation process for SAS Australia alone would be enough to rebuild my confidence and I was right”, he explained.
‘I look back at myself a year ago and when I signed up for this giveaway I was in the worst mental state I’ve ever been in. I look at myself after a year and I am in the best physical and mental shape I have ever been in. ‘I’ve been living all my life.’
He concluded: ‘It has been exceptionally good for my mind and body.’
During his appearance on SAS Australia, Watts admitted that his confidence had waned after losing his radio career ‘about three years ago’.
‘I worked in radio for 20 years and had unprecedented success. I had a number one radio show, it got huge ratings and made a lot of money. It was a very, very good moment. And it’s over’, he reflected during a debriefing with SAS management.
‘You have been doing something like radio continuously for 20 years. You get used to a certain way of doing things, and then when you get out of it for a while, it’s exciting and then it’s cool and it’s relieving.
‘But then suddenly there came a period when I did not have much work. There came a time when I thought, “What’s next for me? Who am I? What am I going to do?”
‘I lost my confidence and I lost my strength and myself. This gradually began to manifest into anxiety and depression.
Watts admitted that her struggles with anxiety and depression led her to sign up for the program.
‘I am doing this course to completely change who I was. Everyone knows me as a happy-go-lucky guy…’ he explained.
“But it’s been a long time since I felt like this. And I want to feel like that again.
