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Zoe Delaney

Liz Truss 'moonlights on Celeb SAS: Who Dares Wins' as PM lookalike appears on show

Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins viewers did a double-take during this evening's final [October 16], as a Liz Truss lookalike made a cameo.

The Channel 4 series wrapped things up for another year earlier this evening, with Maisie Smith, AJ Pritchard, Calum Best, Ferne McCann, Ashley Cain, Jade Jones and Shannon Courtenay taking on the dreaded interrogation challenge and hoping to do enough to pass the condensed SAS selection course.

As the the seven celebrities were subjected to intense interrogation, with Ferne's appearance picked apart and Calum taunted over his famous father George Best, many viewers tuning in were distracted by one of the integrators bearing an uncanny resemblance to the UK's Prime Minister.

"What’s Liz Truss doing on Celebrity SAS," one asked on Twitter, as another joked: "What was liz truss doing in Jordan interrogating celebrities, was this a side line when she was foreign secretary..."

The Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins star has a famous political lookalike (ITV)

"Liz Truss on Celebrity SAS tonight. She is a much better interrogator than she is Prime Minister," a third quipped, with another adding: "Liz Truss doing a bit of moonlighting as an interrogator on Celeb SAS?"

Yet another light-hearted tweet read: "Why is Liz Truss one of the interrogators, thought she’d be busy enough as it is!"

On the dramatic final of the Channel 4 show, Rudy announced Maisie, AJ, Calum and Ferne had all successfully completed the intense selection course, with the four emotional celebrities going on to reveal just what being part of the course meant to them in their exit interviews.

The real Liz Truss, currently Britain's Prime Minister (POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

AJ, Ferne and Calum all made it to the top of the summit during the final task, with Maisie cutting it fine with only 20 seconds left on the clock by the time she made it to join the others.

Thankfully for the former EastEnders actress, the instructors decided all four of the celebrities had done enough to pass the tough course.

Maisie - whose boyfriend Max George recently showed off his cardboard cut-out of the actress - admitted she was "over the moon" with her achievement, explaining: "I came in here with so much confidence. And then when I met everyone, I thought, I don't have a chance, but, you know, I gave 110% every day."

Maisie was proud of her achievements on the Channel 4 show (PA)

The star went on to reveal her most embarrassing moment was her "catastrophic belly flop into the 20 foot sea" and admitted her "darkest moment was the marksman task because I think I was out of my comfort zone. I didn't do a very good job, and I just felt very weak at that point".

Former TOWIE star Ferne was in "a state of shock" when she heard she had passed the course, admitting: "I've accomplished something like throughout my whole life, I've never felt that I've done anything credible, apart from give birth. I'm actually going to cry now."

The mum-of-one - who recently fell-out with childhood pal Sam Faiers - went on to recall how hard it had been to spend so much time away from her young daughter Sunday, saying: "That's what's been so hard. It being so all consuming, missing my daughter so much and just thinking, I've just got a push through and when she watches this one day, I think she'll say, 'my mum is an absolute queen.'

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