John Barrowman: Doctor Who star quits Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins after 32 minutes, saying 'I'm out'

John Barrowman has quit reality show Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins after just 32 minutes, telling an instructor he was “done”.

Doctor Who The star could be seen vomiting shortly after the contestants completed the first challenge during Sunday’s opening episode of the Channel 4 show.

The celebrities had been assigned to missions based on the SAS’s winter warfare training in the Southern Isles. New Zealand.

As they put on their uniforms and prepared to see their accommodation, Barrowmanwho also had a number of major roles in West End musicals, began to feel ill and told the group “I’m out”.

Asked by former SAS Sergeant Major Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham whether he wanted to see a doctor, Barrowman, 57, replied: “No… I’m done,” before adding: “It’s just… it’s not for me, I know who I am and what I do, it’s not for me.”

The show’s narrator said: “After just 32 minutes on base, Number 13 John is the first recruit to leave the course.”

Barrowman has been accused of flashing during the production of Doctor Who and its spin-off show Torchwood, in which he appeared from 2005 to 2011, which he has dismissed as “Rude behavior, stupid behavior.”

His early departure leaves 14 celebrities in the running for top spot in the quasi-military training challenge series, won last year by singer Gareth Gates.

They include Rachel Johnson, sister of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, reality TV star Pete Wicks, former Olympic gymnast Ellie Downie, comedian Tez Ilyas, professional basketball player and Love Island star Ovie Soko and world heavyweight boxing champion Lani Daniels.

Reality TV star Bianca Gascoigne, former England rugby captain Chris Robshaw, TV presenter Cherry Healey, former professional boxer Anthony Ogogo, comedian Shazia Mirza, Love Island contestant Georgia Harrison, reality TV star Bobby Norris and former Geordie Shore star Marnie Simpson complete the line-up.

The first instalment of the sixth season of the celebrity spin-off series also saw The Only Way Is Essex star Norris, 38, discuss his desire to overcome his fears and phobias and detail the online abuse he has faced.

He said many people were victims of online abuse “and trolls and stuff”, but called some of the videos of him “disturbing” and “dark”.

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His response, he says, was to “fill my face with Botox, because it was basically like a mask. One day, I didn’t feel like it suited me anymore. I just wanted to be happy in my own skin, being myself.”