{"id":701438,"date":"2026-01-17T05:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/701438\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T05:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:25:23","slug":"gladiators-contender-revealed-as-glasgow-fitness-coach-ahead-of-series-launch-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/701438\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladiators contender revealed as Glasgow fitness coach ahead of series launch TOMORROW"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A SCOTS personal trainer will be one of the first hopefuls to star on the new series of Gladiators.<\/p>\n

Fitness fanatic Josh McDonald, 27, will compete to earn the huge trophy on offer when he goes up against the likes of Legend and Apollo. <\/p>\n

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\"NINTCHDBPICT001051930680\"Glasgow Man Josh McDonald is to feature as a contender in Gladiators<\/p>\n

\"NINTCHDBPICT001051930675\"The PT will fancy his chances<\/p>\n

The Glaswegian, head coach at Unleashed Performance, was announced alongside Finn, 23, from the Lake District, Naomi, 40, from Birmingham, and Rachael, 39, from Darlington.<\/p>\n

Taking to Instagram, he said: \u201cI am on the next season of Gladiators.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s big announcement I\u2019ve been sitting on for a while. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m super excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

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BBC frontrunner for Strictly job rules themself OUT of top job for bizarre reason<\/p>\n

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IT’S GENE A WHILE<\/p>\n

Inside Life on Mars’ EPIC return for third series after 20 years<\/p>\n

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Viewers can expect bruising encounters and flying insults as the superhuman muscle machines take on explosive new challenge,\u00a0Destruction<\/a>, along with favourites The Eliminator, The Wall, and Powerball.<\/p>\n

In Destruction, each player charges down their lane, facing four 8ft barriers.<\/p>\n

They must use sheer body power, a battering ram and climbing agility.<\/p>\n

The first to smash through and slam the button wins.<\/p>\n

Hosts Bradley and\u00a0Barney Walsh<\/a>\u00a0are back, as are Gladiators Apollo, Athena, Bionic, Comet, Cyclone, Diamond, Giant, Dynamite, Electro, Fire, Hammer, Legend, Nitro, Phantom, Sabre, Steel and Viper.<\/p>\n

Sabre recently launched into a controversial Christmas rant\u00a0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The athlete, real name Sheli McCoy, from Dundee, shared a list of the \u201cfive things you should know about me in case you want to unfollow me before 2026\u201d on\u00a0Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One said: \u201cI think men in family matching two piece pyjama sets should be sent to the army to toughen up or stand up to their wives \u2013 there I said it.\u201d<\/p>\n

After getting flak, she added: \u201cThe amount of you that are upset at the\u00a0Christmas<\/a>\u00a0pyjama thing \u2013 I\u2019m not sorry.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you think it\u2019s targeting you, it is. Your husband, the provider (maybe not, but) the rugged, manly, masculine\u00a0energy\u00a0male in your household in his soft, cotton pyjamas on Instagram with the little cuffs that are always green at the top and bottom, you\u2019ve done that to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you\u2019ve posted it on Instagram in front of all your friends. Now he\u2019s not manly, rugged and hot anymore. Now he\u2019s Dave, dressed like an elf on Instagram. You did that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll make an allowance .. a matching jumper, yes. Even a hoodie, I\u2019ll allow it. A full blown onesie or a two-piece you\u2019ve had it. You are dead to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: BBC A SCOTS personal trainer will be one of the first hopefuls to star on the new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[192,193,748,444,918,4884,459,451,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-701438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-bbc-one","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-fitness-and-exercise","12":"tag-glasgow","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-instagram","15":"tag-netflix","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115908780256210644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}