CONTENDERS READY!
It starts next month on sky one! Yes Gladiators is back hosted by Ian Wright and the lovely Kirsty Gallacher
Here are the new Gladiators
L-R: Top: Oblivion, Battleaxe, Atlas, Enigma, Panther.
Bottom: Tempest, Tornado, Ice, Predator, Inferno, Spartan, Destroyer.
It starts next month on sky one! Yes Gladiators is back hosted by Ian Wright and the lovely Kirsty Gallacher
Here are the new Gladiators
L-R: Top: Oblivion, Battleaxe, Atlas, Enigma, Panther.
Bottom: Tempest, Tornado, Ice, Predator, Inferno, Spartan, Destroyer.
The six men and six women, who will become the stars of Gladiators when it launches next month, will be known by a variety of butch names such as Battleaxe, Spartan and Inferno. They include former athlete Du'aine Ladejo, who won a silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and who also took part in ITV reality show Celebrity Love Island. The oldest is 38-year-old Damar Martin from Croydon, who from now on will be known as Destroyer, while the youngest is 19-year-old Lucy Boggis, who will become Tempest. One name is also repeated from the original ITV series - Panther. Sky has gone into hype overdrive, describing the 12 spandex-clad gladiators as "modern day heroes" who are "bigger, badder and better than ever before". And here they are, along with Sky's frankly hilarious descriptions: ATLAS - Sam Bond, 24, Bournemouth - "As strong as He-Man, fights hard and with dignity". BATTLEAXE - Shirley Webb, 26, Edinburgh - "A weapon of war, domineering, aggressive and indomitable. Battleaxe is a warrior queen". DESTROYER - Damar Martin, 38, Croydon - "Determined and strong, angry and unstoppable - nothing gets in his way". ENIGMA - Jenny Pacey, 25, Borehamwood - "Mysterious and beautiful, contradictory and unpredictable, impossible to capture". ICE - Caroline Pearce, 27, Cambridge - "Cold, steely, frosty and beautiful". INFERNO - Jemma Palmer, 24, Tamworth - "Hot, fiery, dangerous and destructive". OBLIVION - Nicholas Aldis, 21, Norwich - "Leaves nothing in his path - extinguishes his opposition". PANTHER - Kara Nwidobie, 26, Morecambe - "Beautiful, sleek, aggressive and powerful. Panther is the strongest and fiercest of the wild cats". PREDATOR - Du'aine Ledejo, 36, Newark - "Volatile, quick and poisonous, hunts down prey and takes no prisoners." SPARTAN - Roderick Bradley, 24, Grantham- "Handsome, disciplined and brave. Will take on any army - the perfect warrior". TEMPEST - Lucy Boggis, 19, Quintin, Wiltshire - "Naturally beautiful, a force of nature bringing furious agitation and commotion". TORNADO - David McIntosh, 22, Altrincham - "Violently destructive windstorm full of unstoppable energy - leaves you in a spin". Ian Wright and Kirsty Gallacher will preside over the con-*test*-('") with 32 contenders, whittled down from 20,000 applicants, who will battle the gladiators in classic events such as Duel, Powerball, Hang Tough and, of course, The Eliminator in a bid to try and win the £50,000 prize. Original referee John Anderson will also return to the show, which will be filmed on two giant sound stages at Shepperton Studios - the biggest studio sets in the UK. It is eight years since Gladiators last appeared on UK screens, when it was a staple of ITV's Saturday teatime schedule, although it was eventually dumped after ratings dropped. The recent success of the revamped American Gladiators series on NBC in the US saw Sky One snap up the rights. Richard Woolfe, the director of programming for Sky One, Two and Three, says: "The games are bigger, the contenders are stronger and the Gladiators are even more unbelievable... we've found extraordinary characters. "It's a colossus of a programme and it's going to blow people's socks off."Can't wait! :cool:
