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In 2015, a few of us got to know Jussie Smollett on Fox’s Empire. However, in 2019, he became a household name, but not in a good way.
The actor claimed he was beaten in a hate crime. But reports said that he hired two men to do it. He was charged with the crime, but in 2024, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed the conviction.
Since 2019, he has not been seen on any television shows. That is going to change on September 25th. Fox announced today that he will be competing on season 4 of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.
You know your star has fallen when even Dancing with the Stars doesn’t ask you to be on the show.
Do you think that Fox made the right choice in allowing him back on our televisions, or has enough time gone by and all is forgiven and forgotten?
To see the 17 other celebrities who are competing, then
TV Personality – Sister Wives
Kody Brown
TV Personality
Brittany Cartwright
NFL Pro Bowler
Randall Cobb
Former NFL Player
Eric Decker
Country Music Artist
Jessie James Decker
Former NFL player
Andrew East
Olympic Gymnastics Gold Medalist
Shawn Johnson East
Internet Personality
Mark Estes
TV Personality
Gia Giudice
TV Personality
Teresa Giudice
Supermodel
Chanel Iman
Internet Personality
Brianna LaPaglia
Heisman Winner and Former NFL Quarterback
Johnny Manziel
Actress & Model
Eva Marcille
Actor
Ravi V. Patel
World Cup and Olympic Soccer Champion
Christie Pearce Rampone
NBA Champion
Nick Young
This time around, the recruits will be training in Morocco and will endure the extreme circumstances of urban warfare. New this season, some recruits will arrive in pairs consisting of spouses and family members, but will compete individually. All recruits must learn the art of getting comfortable with being uncomfortable as they are faced with training challenges across the country’s expansive desert terrain, including a supply search in an abandoned village where they must race to extraction, a treacherous rat-run through dark and narrow tunnels, a plane shell dunk drill where pairs of recruits will be submerged underwater and must escape, a death-defying urban ladder crossing between buildings 50 ft above the urban streets, and much more. In this experiment, there are no votes and no eliminations – just survival. These celebrities, who are so used to being in the spotlight, will quickly learn the meaning of “no guts, no glory” – and no glam.
