CELEBRITY SAS Who Dares Wins star Maisie Smith revealed her hair fell out in clumps while filming the gruelling reality show.
The former EastEnders star, 21, pushed her body to the limit on the show, jumping from helicopters, fighting co-stars and battling mental demons.
And her harsh styling didn't help either.
Maisie explained: "At the start, I was trying to look in the coffee cups just to see if I had spots – and my hair fell out!
"For a good few showers, clump after clump. I think it was from just having it in that tight bun and all the mud and sand stuck in it. But as the days went on, you tend to stop caring at all."
The former child star recently told us she came out of the programme as “a completely different person.”
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In an exclusive interview, Maisie said: “Strictly and SAS are two completely different shows. I came out of both of them feeling incredible.
“They changed me in different ways. Strictly very much helped me with any worries, like appearance issues. I’ve always been quite insecure of my body.
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“I grew up feeling very self-conscious of my appearance. I would wear trousers because I was too afraid to wear dresses.
“The moment I did Strictly, it made me feel like I felt beautiful all the time. The way it made me feel when I was dancing, it made me feel so pretty inside and out.
“SAS, it really boosted my confidence of not thinking I was good enough or strong enough.
New woman
“I came out of SAS like a completely different person, like a whole new woman. They’re the two best things I’ve ever done.
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“Strictly made me feel beautiful, SAS made me feel like Wonder Woman. What a combination!”
Maisie’s new-found confidence clearly proved attractive to her new love interest Max George and she admitted her fellow contestant Ferne McCann, 32, was trying to get the low-down on her relationship while they were filming in Jordan.
Speaking about the former Towie star, Maisie explained: “No matter how tired we all were, or we would be absolutely battered and past the point of exhaustion and she’d be asking about holidays and families.
“She was like, ‘So, tell me about your relationship.’ That’s what I loved about her, is that no matter what was happening, she was always happy. That was nice.”
While she hit it off with her co-stars, Maisie’s feisty temperament earned her a nickname with the DS.
She confessed: “They called me Tiny Temper and I loved that. I was like the little strong one.
“I think they gave me that nickname because I was showing a bit of grit and anger in the tasks.”
That was no more apparent than one scene in which she had to scrap with Ferne.
Maisie recalled: “They went, ‘Go,’ and I wasn’t expecting her to just go crazy. But she literally just went, ‘Agh,’ and just screamed. I think she shut her eyes, screamed and just went crazy.
“I thought, ‘OK. I need to step up my game’. I was going for a solid minute with just screaming and punching, like a proper cat fight.
Black eye
“I got a couple of good punches in. It wasn’t like a normal boxing ring. It was nonstop.
“I think neither of us wanted to do it. We just closed our eyes, pictured someone we hated and absolutely went crazy on each other!
“After I’d done it, one of the DS (Directing Staff) was like, ‘Well done. You actually smashed it, Tiny Temper’. That was it. After that, the name was stuck.”
The show is known for horrifying tasks and one involved jumping out of a helicopter, which resulted in Maisie being rushed away for medical attention.
She said: “I literally got black eyes from where I fell in the water on my face. For the whole show I had two black eyes.
“Literally when I came out of the show my thighs were still dark purple for two weeks, they were still dark purple just from falling onto water from a height.
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“I hit it so hard that the medic had to check I hadn’t broken my eye sockets.
“I was absolutely battered, but luckily nothing was broken. I was fine.”
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