Kelso applied to be on the show when the American version aired last year.

After an audition in Sydney he was given the green light and spent two weeks filming in Argentina last October.

“I was the token country boy so I wore an Akubra and riding boots and a belt buckle,” Kelso said.

“I knew they’d be looking for something different so I used that.”

An episode is filmed in a week, however, Kelso was there for two as he was the back-up for an episode should anyone get injured.

With no injuries in the first week Kelso had to wait until the second week to finally get his turn at the course.

After a tour of the course and a run through the rules and safety, all the contestants went in a tent and one-by-one were called out to attempt the Wipeout course.

“We didn’t get to watch each other, so we didn’t know how everyone went. They only told us who the fastest were once we’d all finished,” he explained.

“I had to run across the stacked up donut tube things, then there was the sucker-punch wall. I was in the mud on that thing. Then there were the red balls. Then we had to do like a pole vault and land on a big red ball.”

Kelso said the course was a challenge but he enjoyed it.

“I was bad at everything but everyone was bad at everything,” he laughed.

“It just requires a lot of luck. You need a relative amount of fitness because you’re running and climbing things. I was absolutely knackered at the end of it.

It was heaps of fun but it went so fast.”