Squid Game-inspired show blasted as dangerous after 3 contestants hospitalized in insane stunt

A contestant on the UK’s ITV’s Squid Game-inspired game show has branded it “dangerous” — after three people ended up in hospital during filming.Amir Jardan, 38, says he was left “struggling to breathe” while taking part in a challenge which saw contestants jump into a “mountain” of hay that “exploded with dust”. Several people, including Amir, were left to seek medical attention — with one man “needing urgent hospital care after developing an allergic reaction”. The eight-part series that will air on ITV1 in early 2025, sees 100 contestants competing in a series of games — similar to the hit Netflix show Squid Game — with the last person standing winning a cash prize.Amir — who has three children with fiancé Ruth Moore, 27 — said he joined the show “as an exciting challenge” but “never in a million years” did he expect to ‘nearly lose his life’. Over the course of a week, Amir and the 99 other contestants took part in over 13 challenges, however on the second day of filming in July 2024, things took a turn for the worst. In a game named ‘needle in a haystack,’ Amir claims contestants had to jump from a “considerable height” into a stack of hay to retrieve a pair of chopsticks in order to escape elimination. However, a “cloud of dust” left several people needing medical help, and an ambulance was called — with three people being taken to Reading Hospital in Berkshire, Amir said.Speaking ahead of the program’s debut, Amir, a fire alarm engineer, from Dorchester, Dorset, said: “I was so excited to be taking part in a fun TV show. “It’s a dangerous show and it caused my fiancé — who was heavily pregnant at the time — additional stress.“When we had to jump into this massive stack of hay.A cloud of dust engulfed us.“Somehow, I managed to escape but I couldn’t breathe because I could feel my throat closing up. “After that, the whole thing was a blur, but I remember I was put into t...