Ant Middleton is best known as the former Chief Instructor on the Channel 4 television series SAS: Who Dares Wins, a role he held from 2015 until 2021.
17 Facts About Ant Middleton
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Ant Middleton was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and brought up in France.
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Ant Middleton joined the army in 1998 at the age of 17 where he served in 9 Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers and served tours of duty in Northern Ireland in 1999 during Operation Banner, and in the Republic of Macedonia in 2001 during Operation Essential Harvest.
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Ant Middleton passed the 32 week commando course on 20 January 2006 with 898 troop, winning the King's Badge for best all-round recruit, and was posted to D Company, 40 Commando.
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Ant Middleton was the Chief Instructor on SAS: Who Dares Wins, a reality high-fitness training television programme produced by Minnow Films for Channel 4, which was first broadcast in 2015.
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In March 2021, Ant Middleton was dropped by Channel 4 over their objections to his personal conduct.
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Ant Middleton then repeated his SAS hosting position on the Australian version of the show for the Seven Network.
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In 2017, Ant Middleton co-authored his first book, SAS: Who Dares Wins: Leadership Secrets from the Special Forces, with his fellow TV presenters and Special Forces colleagues Jason Fox, Matthew "Ollie" Ollerton and Colin Maclachlan.
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On 14 May 2018, Ant Middleton reached the summit of Mount Everest with Ed Wardle, completing the ascent over a five and a half week period.
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In November 2019, Ant Middleton was appointed as Chief Cadet and Honorary Captain in the Royal Navy's Volunteer Cadet Corps.
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Ant Middleton left the position nine months later amidst controversy surrounding a comment he made on Twitter, which appeared to compare Black Lives Matter protesters with the English Defence League as extremists and "scum", though he clarified that he was not equating the two groups.
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In 2023, Ant Middleton climbed to the summit of K2, second highest in the world only to Mount Everest.
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On 20 September 2024, Ant Middleton gave his support to Reform UK and he spoke at the party's conference in Birmingham.
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On 20 January 2025, Ant Middleton was part of Reform UK's delegation to the second inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington, DC, in the United States, along with leader Nigel Farage and party treasurer Nick Candy.
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Ant Middleton was convicted of the unlawful wounding of a male police officer and the common assault of a female police officer in a nightclub in Chelmsford, Essex in 2013 the following year after leaving the Special Boat Service.
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Ant Middleton gave himself up to the police after a short initial search.
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Ant Middleton was sentenced to 14 months in prison, of which he served only four months due to good behaviour.