Pauline Hanson will be competing on a popular reality show

Pauline Hanson has reportedly signed on to compete in the upcoming season of the reality TV show SAS Australia.

A network insider told Daily Mail Australia that the politician agreed to join the show because she wants to “challenge herself” and that producers ‘couldn’t be more thrilled’, that she’s confirmed for the show.

“The new season will be filmed in the Middle East, so it will defiantly take Pauline out of her comfort zone,” they added.

SAS Australia is a reality TV show where Australian celebrities are put through physical and psychological tests from the real military selection process.

While Hanson became famous for being the One Nation leader, she has starred on several reality TV shows including Dancing With The Stars, Enough Rope, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, This is Your Life and Celebrity Apprentice Australia.

She’s widely considered a controversial politician, largely because her political party, One Nation, railed against government immigration and multicultural policies.

Hanson drew criticism back in 2019 when she compared stopping the Uluru climb to “closing down Bondi Beach.”

The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Bark Board came to the decision in 2017 to close Uluru to climbers and the ban was implemented in 2019. Uluru is considered a sacred and holy landmark by the traditional owners of the land, the Anangu Aboriginal people. Since Uluru was returned to the original custodians in 1985, visitors have been implored not to step foot on the site.

However, Hanson wasn’t impressed with the climbing ban.

“The fact is, it’s money-making,” she told Today at the time. “It’s giving jobs to the Indigenous community, you’ve got over 4-500,000 tourists a year that want to go there and climb the rock.

“It’s no different to saying we’re going to close down Bondi Beach because there are some people there that have drowned. How ridiculous is that! This is an iconic site for all Australians.”

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