The fourth season of Special Forces: World’s Closest Test he was stacked with former NFL and NBA players, but he was a former Olympic gymnast and influencer who triumphed.
Shawn Johnson East and Gia Giudice were two of the five contestants who went on to the season 4 finale, along with Sister Wives‘Kody Brown; Johnson East’s husband, former footballer Andrew East; and Giudice’s fellow influencer Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia.
The task at hand focused on the recruits’ ability to remain mentally strong.
The Direction Staff decided that Andrew East and Kody Brown had not done this, after bringing in professional interrogators to interrogate the celebrities, who had not slept for almost 24 hours during a simulation of being captured behind enemy lines. They had to stick to the prepared stories and never say they were with the military.
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During the questioning of Andrew East, about why he was where he was and who he was with, he told the interrogator that he thought there was a mistake, that it did not go well.
“No, no, no, no, no,” the East told them. “Let me tell you something. You made a mistake, son.”
As DS watched what was happening on a nearby monitor, Rudy Reyes said East had “no idea how to read the room or execute some of the basic training principles.” They also didn’t like that he failed to stand up for his fellow recruits during the task.
His band was pulled soon after, with DS citing that he “did not apply the tactics and training that was explained to you in this part of the course.”
Next was Brown, who the DS found did the same thing.
LaPaglia did it more, though. She voluntarily retired with, as the narrator said, only 10 more minutes left on the track. What stopped her was the last thing the recruits were asked to do: get into a coffin and experience a simulation of being buried alive.
“No, no, no. You can’t do it to me. Well, yes, I lied,” she said before blowing her cover. “I’m here with the Special Forces.”
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Shawn Johnson East and Gia Giudice completed Special Forces training
Moments later, Johnson East and Giudice were told that they had passed not only this phase of the course, but the entire experience.
“I can’t believe we did this,” Giudice said before hugging her co-star.
“Shawn and I are going to be bonded for life,” Giudice, who struggled early on in the show, said in a confessional. “We completed the selection. I really didn’t think I was going to be able to do it. I knew I had to persevere and push for myself and my family and also, most importantly, the DS, because they really believe in me.”
For Johnson East, it was also a big moment.
“They literally remove the core of people, and it’s a very humbling experience,” said the gymnast, who DS told her that she should be less robotic, a habit she picked up in gymnastics. “I learned that you can’t just turn on the world and do your job. You have to be able to balance both.”
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