Retired rugby league star Sam Burgess is reportedly the highest paid celebrity recruit on SAS Australia, earning a whopping $200,000 pay cheque.
And it seems Channel Seven is keen to get its money's worth after spending so much money securing the former South Sydney Rabbitohs player.
Sam, 32, has been featured heavily on the military-style reality show, while the other contestants are completing the same challenges almost unnoticed.
As the show heads into its fourth episode, a production source has told Daily Mail Australia several of the recruits are 'frustrated' with their lack of airtime.
A handful of stars are unhappy their efforts have been left on the cutting room floor, saying SAS Australia's second season is 'basically the Sam Burgess show'.
It's not fair! SAS Australia recruits are reportedly livid that retired NRL player Sam Burgess, 32, (pictured) has unfairly been given a clean 'classic redemption story edit' to redeem himself
'The talk right now amongst recruits is they are doing their best to make Sam Burgess look good… doesn't take a genius to figure out why,' the source said.
'The best way to minimise any potential backlash was to make him likeable in the edit and to make everyone else look bad or like a tool.'
'It's blatantly obvious to the recruits the network is terrified given Sam has ongoing legal issues still pending,' they added.
Star of the show: But after almost four episodes in, a SAS Australia source told Daily Mail Australia that this year's recruits are fuming with their edits, while others are frustrated that their efforts have been left behind on the cutting room floor
The insider sensationally claimed producers were instructed by executives at Seven to 'start conditioning the audience to liking Sam'.
'The order came straight from the top... SAS is trying to pull the wool over audiences eyes,' they alleged.
Sam confessed on the show last week he'd been
