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SAS: Who Dares Wins' new star Melvyn Downes has revealed how he went from growing up on a Stoke-on-Trent council estate to watching his friends die in the battlefield.
The newest member of the Directing Staff, or 'DS' as they’re called on the brutal show, remains incredibly proud of his roots and describes himself as 'a normal bloke from Stoke'.