Well things are looking up for Jussie Smollett, who is making a massive return to Fox, stepping into the intense world of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test for its upcoming fourth season. The actor and singer will be one of 18 celebrity recruits taking on grueling military-style challenges when the show premieres this September.
This season heads to Morocco, where the recruits will face the same kinds of physically and mentally demanding situations real-life special forces endure.
The network’s official description says:
This time around, the recruits will be training in Morocco and will endure the extreme circumstances of urban warfare. New this season, some recruits will arrive in pairs consisting of spouses and family members, but will compete individually. All recruits must learn the art of getting comfortable with being uncomfortable as they are faced with training challenges across the country’s expansive desert terrain, including a supply search in an abandoned village where they must race to extraction, a treacherous rat-run through dark and narrow tunnels, a plane shell dunk drill where pairs of recruits will be submerged underwater and must escape, a death-defying urban ladder crossing between buildings 50 ft above the urban streets, and much more. In this experiment, there are no votes and no eliminations – just survival. These celebrities, who are so used to being in the spotlight, will quickly learn the meaning of “no guts, no glory” – and no glam.
Smollett joins a lineup that features Sister Wives star Kody Brown, reality TV personalities Brittany Cartwright, Gia Giudice, and Teresa Giudice, NFL pro bowler Randall Cobb, former NFL players Eric Decker and Andrew East, Heisman Trophy winner and ex-NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel, country singer Jessie James Decker, Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Shawn Johnson East, online personalities Mark Estes and Brianna LaPaglia, supermodel Chanel Iman, actress and model Eva Marcille, actor Ravi V. Patel, soccer legend Christie Pearce Rampone, and NBA champion Nick Young.
Guiding the celebrity recruits through the punishing tasks will be the Directing Staff, an elite team of ex-special forces operatives: Rudy Reyes, Mark “Billy” Billingham, Jason “Foxy” Fox, and Jovon “Q” Quarles.