Gladiators: Where are they now?
Seen as how I am only working 3 days a week at the Ooh Aah Daily Star, my life has become an endless whirl of Challenge TV on cable.
In the morning I get to step up to "the Ochee" with Jim Bowen in Bullseye and then challenge myself to beat a load of students with Holness in Blockbuster.
But my absoloute favourite has got to be Gladiators.
I don't know about other readers, but when I was a kid me and all my mates thought the gladiator's were gods.You can guarantee that every Saturday night come 6:00, I would be sat on my sofa ready to sing along to the Queen songs and wave an imaginary foam hand.
I never got to go and watch the programme, which I believe was filmed in Birmingham NEC, but I had a mate who did. I did however get to meet my two favourite Gladiators: Lightning and Cobra, when they turned the Christmas lights on in my home town of Warrington. I remember being so excited.
You may recall it is also the programme which really shot everyone's favourite Swedish shagger (after Sven of course); Ulrika Johnson to real TV fame. It also gave us the catch phrases: "Ah Wuga" and "Contenders are you ready? Gladiator's are you ready? 3, 2, 1...beep."
The show finished after it had done an international series I seem to recall. Some dyke-ish looking ginger Northerner called Eunice became the world champion...God love her.
But I wonder what happened to the other Gladiators? Nightshade, Scorpio, Falcon, Zodiac, Lightning, Panther, Jet, Cobra, Hunter, Warrior, Wolf, Trojan, Saracen, Shadow...
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You're back! How excellent!
I met Rhino, a gladiator of such minor celebrity that you haven't even listed him on your blog entry. He was a nice bloke; admired my Manics T-shirt and all. And I saw Shadow outside the Tesco Metro in Covent Garden one afternoon, too.
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Rhino...I remember him. A black guy with the bluest eyes I have ever seen. He was by far the fittest gladiator actually. Hunter was pretty fit as well but he was rattling Ulrika-ka-ka, I seem to remember.
Shadow...he was a complete psycho! I remember he was in the tabs a while ago for being a total druggie.
My arse was firmly planted in front of the screen come 6 on a Saturday where I would proceed to drool over Hunter's muscled torso. What was I thinking? So you're working for the Ooh Aah - fantastic. I just had a quick look at the website and they're offering £200 for a photo of a celeb. I've got a photo in my phone of the back of Tim from the office walking around Soho with his baby? What you reckon?
I was also a big Gladiators fan and remember Eunice's triumph. Didn't they make her a gladiator? I also knew the guy that became Rhino as a teenager when he was a 9st skinny-ass breakdancer. Blue or green eyes on a black/mixed race guy = much more pussy! But I think he took the body building a bit too far!
Didn't Wolf turn up as one of the spoofed "celebrities" in a Brass Eye episode, maybe the paedophile one?
The dad of one of my former best friends in the dim-distant days of school was the costume designer for Gladiators. And Cilla Black. And Dame Edna Everage.A mighty CV indeed.
How're you enjoying the Star so far? A girl I know moved there about a year ago - once excused herself from further chat one afternoon, because she had to get back to talking to saucy young female soap stars about their underwear.
It was about then that I really started to angrily question my own career choices in life...
a.c.t: Nice try...but I don't think even the Star would stoop to that level of celeb mediocrity. Nice spot though.
Butterfly: They made Eunice a gladiator? Really?! Yeah blue eyes on a black or mixed race guy does look very striking. Were his real or contacts?
akr: Yeah the Star is all good. More of the same as I was doing at previous paper's...with nobs on.
Correct. Wolf did turn up in Brasseye. But it wasn't the peads one, it was the animals one. Where Karla the elephant had stuck her trunk up her own anus because of a depressive disorder. Paul Daniels was on it as well. I sometimes question my career as well. What about "news?"
I am also a hardcore gladiators fan. A few weeks back I found myself a Panther pin badge! Awesome.
You've missed off one of the best. Fashnu. His waistcoats are the stuff of legend.
even though were 300 miles away, that silver string is still intact!
I too have found myself watching the Gladiators of a morning- I have to do something inbetween cleaning pooy nappies and being puked on!
Eunice Huthar (or however you spel it) went on to become a stunt woman and was doing summat on a James Bond film I remember watching it on newsround or summat ages ago.
Did I tell you my Warrior story?
One thing left to say- Have you got 2 2's and a 1?
I knew it was you when I saw that name! Pure genius!
They've done more bird than Bill Oddie!!!
What's your Warrior story?
Yes, I have got 2 2's and a 1. I shall give them to you on your birthday tomorrow!
So, Warrior is in prison, and being unlocked one morning when an officer shouts 'Gladiator Ready?', 'Inmates Ready?', then half the wing would shout 'yeah'!
This is true!
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