Fox has revealed the Special Forces: Season 5 cast, and Candace Cameron Bure is one of 15 celebrities headed into the jungle. The lineup turns the new season into a clear comparison of backgrounds, with reality TV, sports, acting, and comedy all in the same training pool.
The season premieres on Thursday, September 24 at 9 p.m. ET on Fox, with episodes streaming the next day on Hulu. That schedule gives viewers a quick handoff from broadcast to streaming, and it puts the cast announcement in front of a wider audience before the first episode airs.
15 names, one selection process
Matt Barnes, Alycia Baumgardner, Candace Cameron Bure, David Charvet, Brandi Glanville, Collin Gosselin, Oliver Hudson, LaSean McCoy, Maxim Naumov, Ruby Rose, George Santos, Hannah Stocking, Breana Tiesi, Alexia Umansky, and Mauricio Umansky make up the Season 5 roster. The group mixes an NBA champion and podcaster, a world champion boxer, an NFL Super Bowl champion, and an Olympic figure skater with actors and reality TV figures, which gives this run a broader occupational spread than a single-franchise cast.
Special Forces: World's Toughest Test is built around challenges from the actual Special Forces selection process, and this group will be deployed in Malaysia. The recruits will live in the jungle, which keeps the season anchored to the physical and mental demands that define the format instead of turning it into a standard celebrity competition.
Collin Gosselin and George Santos
Collin Gosselin enters as a former TV personality, a familiar name returning to unscripted TV through a format built on endurance rather than confessionals. George Santos adds a different kind of complication: he is listed as an expelled U.S. Congressman, making him the cast member most likely to pull attention away from the physical competition and toward the politics around the booking.
Brandi Glanville, Breana Tiesi, Alexia Umansky, and Mauricio Umansky extend the reality-TV thread through The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Selling Sunset, and Buying Beverly Hills. Candace Cameron Bure, David Charvet, Oliver Hudson, Ruby Rose, and Hannah Stocking push the cast toward a wider TV and comedy audience, while Rudy Reyes, Billy Billingham, Jason “Foxy” Fox, and Jovon “Q” Quarles remain the Directing Staff guiding the season’s structure.
September 24 on Fox
Thursday, September 24 at 9 p.m. ET is the date to watch, because that is when the cast stops being a reveal and becomes a live test of who can handle the format. The next-day Hulu rollout should keep the season discoverable after the premiere, but the real draw is whether a 15-person cast can stay coherent once the jungle starts stripping away the usual reality-TV comfort zone.
The cast reveal does the important job already: it gives viewers a lineup with enough range to make the season feel less like a standard celebrity booking and more like a pressure test. The one thing Fox has not laid out is how the 15 cast members were selected, and that leaves the casting process itself as the last unexplained piece around a season built on selection.
