How the SAS Australia stars beat bad body odour WITHOUT deodorant after hours of gruelling challenges By Jade Watkins for Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:16 BST, 20 September 2021 | Updated: 05:06 BST, 20 September 2021 Viewcomments They may have had to fall 100 feet into a river or carry heavy sandbags and ammunition containers along a gruelling 4km course. But for the celebrities on SAS Australia, the real challenge was how to beat body odour without deodorant, and don’t turn your nose up at the novel solution. The stars of the show raided the medical kit to find a solution to bad B.O - and found one in bottles of bug repellent, normally designed to keep the creepy crawlies at bay. Genius! The stars of SAS Australia kept their body odour in check with bug spray after deodorant was banned 'How do you beat B.O and keep the bugs at baby at the same time? Bug repellent,' said one celebrity contestant. SAS Australia is a remake of the hit British TV show SAS: Who Dares Wins and puts stars through their paces as they attempt to pass the selection process to join the Australian Army's elite Special Air Service. A production source said for the celebrity contestants one of the big issues was how to maintain the most basic standards of hygiene in an environment where things like deodorant and after shave were banned products. In a sweat: A production source said for the celebrity contestants one of the big issues was how to maintain the most basic standards of hygiene in an environment where things like deodorant and after shave were banned products. Clever: The stars of the show raided the medical kit to find a solution to bad B.O - and found one in bottles of bug repellent, normally designed to keep the creepy crawlies at bay 'This is where the contestants used their ingenuity and used bug repellent as a way to sort out their underarm issues,' said a production source. 'The problem was pretty noticeable. You have to remember these celebrities are engaged in all sorts of physical activity and are sweating like crazy, so they are going to smell.... right. 'Bug repellent doesn’t just ward off bugs. It keeps B.O at bay too. 'The girls were mostly using it. The guys didn’t seem to care as much. They were all smelling as bad as one another so they probably didn’t care too much.' Meanwhile, in other SAS Australia news, Sam Burgess is reportedly the highest paid celebrity on the show this year, earning a whopping $200,000 pay cheque. And it seems Channel Seven is keen to get its money's worth after spending so much to secure 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 program heads into its fourth episode, a production source has told Daily Mail Australia several of the recruits are feeling 'frustrated' with their lack of airtime. The stars are unhappy their efforts have been left on the cutting room floor, with the insider saying SAS Australia's second season is 'basically the Sam Burgess show'. 'The talk right now amongst recruits is [the producers] 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.' 'It's blatantly obvious to the recruits the network is terrified given Sam has ongoing legal issues still pending,' they added. The insider sensationally claimed producers were instructed by executives at Seven to 'start conditioning the audience to like 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 unfaithful during his four-year marriage to ex-wife Phoebe while being interrogated by the directing staff. Tough: SAS Australia is a remake of the hit British TV show SAS: Who Dares Wins and puts stars through their paces as they attempt to pass the selection process to join the Australian Army's elite Special Air Service Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility