Cassie Sainsbury has joined the cast of the brutal reality show, SAS Australia.
The doomed drug mule, who has been nicknamed ‘Cocaine Cassie’, will star alongside Craig McLachlan and boxing champion Anthony Mundine.
He will also compete against Olympians Stephanie Rice, Peter Bol and Matthew Mitcham, as well as Balinese princess Lindy Klim, Thai cave rescue hero Dr. Craig Challen and Brownlow medalist Jason Akermanis.
For the first time at SAS Australia, these men and women will travel the high seas to a secret base in the Middle East.
They will eat, sleep, and train together in hot, arid conditions, with no concessions or exceptions for their celebrity status or gender.
Cassie Sainsbury (pictured) has joined the cast of the brutal reality show, SAS Australia
Celebrities will be pushed beyond their limits like never before, as they are subjected to extreme physical resistance, sleep deprivation, interrogations and psychological tests on dramatic and unforgiving terrain.
Some will reach breaking point and drop out, the show’s press release promises.
In September, Sainsbury returned to Australia for the first time in five years with his new wife Tatiana, 34, by his side after being locked up halfway around the world.
Sainsbury, 27, will live between Australia and Colombia, where she spent 27 months in jail after she was caught trying to smuggle 5.8kg of cocaine out of the South American country in April 2017.
The doomed drug mule, nicknamed ‘Cocaine Cassie,’ will star alongside Craig McLachlan and boxing champion Anthony Mundine, among other stars.
She was sentenced to six years in prison, but in April 2020 she was released early from the notoriously harsh El Buen Pastor prison in Bogotá.
Sainsbury was forced to remain in Colombia as part of her bail conditions, but last year, more than five years after her arrest, she finally landed on her home soil.
Although she is eager to return to her small hometown of Yorketown, 90km from Adelaide, the former inmate previously told Daily Mail Australia that married life would likely mean living between Australia and Colombia.
‘[Tatiana has] I’ve never been to Australia,’ Sainsbury said.
“We’ll probably end up between Australia and Colombia because obviously his family is here, so it’s going to be like, some time here, some time there.”
Sainsbury said his whirlwind romance with Tatiana, which began in 2021, was completely unexpected.
Sainsbury will live between Australia and Colombia, where she spent 27 months in jail after she was caught trying to smuggle 5.8kg of cocaine out of the South American country in April 2017. She is pictured above at the time of her arrest in Colombia. in April 2017
“We had shared a group of friends and one night we went out for a birthday and we literally hit it off,” she said.
The couple quickly took their relationship to the next level with Tatiana getting down on one knee during a romantic oceanfront dinner in Cartagena, Colombia in November.
At the time, Sainsbury showed off her dazzling engagement ring on social media, posting that she was nervous about trying to choose a wedding dress.
‘I feel like I’m happier than ever. It’s nice to feel like I can be myself without being judged by someone who is always there for me.
Sainsbury confirmed that he had exchanged vows with Tatiana in an Instagram post to his followers in March 2022.
Before her arrest, Sainsbury was a waitress and later took up personal training.
Her life took a dramatic turn in 2017 when she was caught trying to smuggle cocaine inside 18 boxes of earphones.
After her release, she tearfully revealed how her life had hit one low point after another.
In September, Sainsbury returned to Australia for the first time in five years with his new wife Tatiana by his side, after she was locked up halfway around the world. In the photo together