Alexia Umansky, Candace Cameron Bure and Collin Gosselin made it through the final test on Special Forces Season 5 and were crowned winners when the season ended Thursday, November 12. The finale closed with three celebrities still standing after the last selection, turning a brutal run of military-style challenges into a shared finish line.
That is why viewers looking up who won Special Forces are finding a clear answer now: the season’s end did not leave a single survivor, but three. Special Forces premiered in 2023 and has put celebrities through harsh training based on actual military selection processes, with the cast facing intense physical and mental challenges meant to push them to their limits. On the finale, the pressure finally resolved into a result.
Umansky said the moment hit her only after she was out and scanning for the first person holding a cell phone so she could reach her family. She said, “Please let me call my family. Let me call somebody,” then added, “I won,” before saying everyone started crying. She had gone into the season expecting far less, saying she thought she would “just make it to day four,” and that if she made it halfway, she would be proud of herself. She also said she had written in her journal, “By day four, I think I can make it to the end.”
Her reaction carried the weight of how hard the season had been. Umansky said she was sad when Mauricio Umansky left, and she described sobbing in the swamp because she thought she might collapse and pass out face first into the mud. She said she believed production might have to medically withdraw her because she had been pushed to her mental and physical end. That makes the finale result feel less like a routine TV ending than the payoff for endurance the show spent the season demanding.
But the final moment was not instantly clear to everyone. Candace Cameron Bure said she was shocked when she passed and could not believe the others were not there. She said she genuinely thought the other people had been separated and that it was still part of the day, adding that she did not know they were at the final selection. Once it sank in, she said it became a big sigh of relief and that the group was thinking, “What’s going on?” before realizing, “Wow, it’s over. We did it. This is incredible.”
The result leaves Special Forces Season 5 with a clean finish and three winners, not one. Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test is streaming now on Hulu, and the finale now stands as the season’s final answer: Alexia Umansky, Candace Cameron Bure and Collin Gosselin were the last ones through.
