{"id":213491,"date":"2025-10-10T05:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/213491\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:04:09","slug":"jussie-smollett-exits-special-forces-over-medical-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/213491\/","title":{"rendered":"Jussie Smollett Exits Special Forces\u00a0Over Medical Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Teresa Giudice Quits \u2018Special Forces: World&#8217;s Toughest Test\u2019 Over Daughter Gia Giudice<\/p>\n<p>Another recruit has bit the dust\u2014quit literally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jussie_smollett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jussie Smollett<\/a> became the fourth celebrity to drop out of season four of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1423275\/teresa-giudice-quits-special-forces-worlds-toughest-test?query=eresa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Special Forces: World&#8217;s Toughest Test<\/a> during the Fox reality competition series&#8217; Oct. 9 episode.<\/p>\n<p>For their day three challenge, the stars were dropped into a simulated war zone and tasked with locating and extracting &#8220;fallen comrades&#8221; while navigating tough terrain, obstacles and fake explosions in the brutal heat of the Moroccan desert.<\/p>\n<p>The physically demanding exercise left many of the season four hopefuls\u2014which include Gia Giudice, Kody Brown, Shawn Johnson and husband Andrew East, among others\u2014completely exhausted and weakened after exerting so much effort in the strenuous obstacle course. However, Jussie was determined to power through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My older sister told me, &#8216;Jussie, you do not have to prove anything,'&#8221; the Empire alum reflected in a confessional. &#8220;But I do. I want to show myself that I can do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to nearly throwing up mid-exercise, Jussie developed a nasty cough that became worse and constant even afterwards when the group returned to their base camp. And Jussie&#8217;s costars took notice of his new breathing issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teresa Giudice Quits \u2018Special Forces: World&#8217;s Toughest Test\u2019 Over Daughter Gia Giudice Another recruit has bit the dust\u2014quit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-213491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}