"Candid and brutally honest - this is Ross Kemp's very personal account of British soldiers at war! Ross endures the stifling heat, constant threat of snipers, RPG attacks and land mines; discovering first hand what it's like to fight on Britain's front line!How will he cope, faced with the harsh conditions experienced on a daily basis by the highly-trained soldiers of the British Army?"
Whether you think of him as EastEnders hard man Grant Mitchell or as a Bafta award-winning infiltrator of real-life gangs for Sky One, few would associate Ross Kemp with subtlety. Yet when he’s speaking of his recent trip to Afghanistan with the British Army, he’s surprisingly understated: it was, he says, ‘an unhealthy environment in many ways’.
That doesn’t quite cover what Kemp went through during the year he spent making Ross Kemp in Afghanistan, which starts on Sky One on Monday. He trained with the First Battalion the Royal Anglians, met soldiers and their families while still in England, and – with Ministry of Defence approval – was sent with them to Camp Bastion in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.
‘I’ve got many friends who are in the services,’ he says, ‘but you never really hear a squaddie giving his point of view. I’d never heard one talk publicly and I wanted to hear that voice.’
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