Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test season 5 cast features Candace Cameron Bure, Collin Gosseli...

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Other contestants include Breana Tiesi, Brandi Glanville, George Santos, and Alexia and Mauricio Umansky.

Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test season 5 cast features Candace Cameron Bure, Collin Gosselin, Ruby Rose, and Oliver Hudson

Other contestants include Breana Tiesi, Brandi Glanville, George Santos, and Alexia and Mauricio Umansky.

By Leigh Blickley

July 15, 2026 4:51 p.m. ET

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(L-R) Collin Gosselin, Candace Cameron Bure, and Ruby Rose. Credit:

- Season 5 of *Special Forces* will feature a new cast of celebrity recruits.

- Reality stars Brandi Glanville, Collin Gosselin, and Mauricio Umansky join actors Candace Cameron Bure, Oliver Hudson, and Ruby Rose as they take on grueling challenges.

- The cast also features athletes, a comedian, and a former politician.

A new celebrity cast of characters is up for the challenge of *Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test*.

The season 5 contestants of the competition show were revealed by FOX on Wednesday, and they include everyone from sitcom actors to reality TV stars and A-list athletes.

The 15 trainees who’ve agreed to endure some of the harshest, most grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual special forces selection process include Candace Cameron Bure (*Full House*), David Charvet (*Baywatch*), Brandi Glanville (*Real Housewives of Beverly Hills*), Collin Gosselin (*Jon & Kate Plus 8*), and Oliver Hudson (*Rules of Engagement*).

This season, the celebrity recruits will be deployed in Malaysia to take on intense challenges in “the most hostile environment a soldier could operate in... the jungle,” according to FOX’s press release.

Recruits will “adapt to uncomfortable conditions, unpredictable terrain and harsh jungle warfare tasks” as they endure challenges such as a claustrophobic, high-pressure search of an underground bunker to find crucial military weapons, a supply load retrieval while suspended 300 feet above the jungle floor, and a chemical gassing while finding coordinates of an enemy vessel.

In this experiment, the celebrities try to survive demanding training exercises led by the Directing Staff (DS) Rudy Reyes, Billy Billingham, Jason “Foxy” Fox, and Jovon “Q” Quarles, an elite team of ex-special forces operatives.

They will guide the recruits while testing them to see who has the guts and glory to make it to the end.

Season 5 premieres Thursday, Sept. 24 at 9 p.m. ET.

Below, meet the 15 celebrities taking on the *Special Forces* challenge in season 5:

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