{"id":929833,"date":"2026-10-16T04:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929833\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T04:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:02:08","slug":"special-forces-injured-mauricio-umansky-quits-during-episode-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929833\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Forces: Injured Mauricio Umansky Quits During Episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Mauricio Umansky Gets Honest About Kyle Richards, Their Separation &amp; Moving Forward | E! Hot Goss<\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Umansky is down for the count.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/special_forces_worlds_toughest_test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Special Forces: World&#8217;s Toughest Test<\/a> star reached his breaking point during the Fox reality competition series&#8217; Oct. 15 episode, ultimately quitting season five due to a painful rib injury.<\/p>\n<p>As day five kicked off in Malaysia, the directing staff informed the 11 remaining celebrities they&#8217;d be participating in a brutal chemical warfare simulation that would cause extreme discomfort and physical pain. But after Mauricio had trouble simply walking to the challenge due to a suspected sprain, the luxury realtor feared he couldn&#8217;t handle the taxing test of stamina.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Staff, I am going to have to VW,&#8221; the 56-year-old announced upon his decision to voluntarily withdraw. &#8220;I physically no longer can continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Staff member Jovon &#8220;Q&#8221; Quarles looked confused by Mauricio&#8217;s proclamation. However, the father of four explained, &#8220;My rib is just hurting and if I&#8217;m going to be coughing and not able to breathe, I feel like it&#8217;s gonna break further.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mauricio Umansky Gets Honest About Kyle Richards, Their Separation &amp; Moving Forward | E! Hot Goss Mauricio Umansky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-929833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}