South Wales Echo

The boys are back!

- Sky One, 9pm

IT’S sink or swim for Jamie Redknapp and Freddie Flintoff as a seaplane dumps them in the middle of Loch Ness.

As they swim to safety, a speedboat whizzes over to them and, emerging from a balaclava, is former marine commando Jason Fox.

The SAS hardman explains: “Your teammates are being held hostage in that castle. Your challenge is to go and rescue them.”

Beginning this comedy odyssey from Loch Ness to London, the buddies find their teammates Romesh Ranganatha­n and Jack Whitehall tied up and waiting at the legendary Urqhart Castle. The first leg is 80 miles as they are put through their paces by Fox and adventurer Aldo Kane.

Dressed up like a bunch of paramilita­ry Wombles, they try to camouflage themselves as they start their SAS Highlands Survival challenge, and we see who the sharpshoot­er of the team is in a sniper shoot-off.

As always with anything League of Their Own, everything very quickly descends into laddish chaos, as they all behave like a bunch of idiots.

Redknapp is forced by Flintoff to drink water from his disgusting sock and Jack worries about his contact lenses on a treacherou­s gorge walk, before they all break into a rendition of Waterfalls by TLC.

Fox isn’t impressed, calling them a haphazard bunch. “Jack is a buffoon and Romesh moves more like a slug than a human,” he says.

There’s a lot of blokey mocking, punishment press ups and not even Jack’s contraband hampers are going to help them.

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From left, Freddie Flintoff, Jack Whitehall, Romesh Ranganatha­n and Jamie Redknapp
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PICK OF THE DAY From left, Freddie Flintoff, Jack Whitehall, Romesh Ranganatha­n and Jamie Redknapp Jack hanging around
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