Ollie Ollerton

Matthew ‘Ollie’ Ollerton is a former Special Forces soldier and a member of the Directing Staff in Channel 4’s hit show SAS: Who Dares Wins, alongside Ant Middleton and Jason Fox. Ollie’s military career began at the age of 18 when he joined the Royal Marine Commandos and toured operationally in Northern Ireland and Operation Desert Storm in Iraq. After completing the gruelling 6-month-long SAS selection process, Ollie joined the Special Boat Service. During his six years in the SBS Ollie’s missions included hostage rescue, counter narcotics, counter terrorism, homeland security, counter insurgency operations and humanitarian efforts. Upon leaving the Special Forces, Ollie worked in Iraq as a private security contractor for American TV crews, which saw him saving 12 members of his vehicle convoy from armed attack whilst driving at 140 kilometres-per-hour en-route to Baghdad. Ollie then headed to South East Asia, using his incredible military training to benefit the lives of those less fortunate while working for a charity. He was lead command of a three-man team bravely infiltrating child trafficking rings. One such mission saw 22 children destined for the sex trade and sweatshop labour rescued and taken to safe houses to be educated and live happy lives in a caring environment.