JOHN Fashanu has launched a bid to bring back Gladiators — and wants to return with co-host Ulrika Jonsson. The series was massive in the Nineties, attracting audiences of up to 14million at its peak.
And the former Wimbledon footballer believes a new generation of fitness-obsessed youngsters would lap up a modern day version of the sports-based game show with a whole new set of Gladiators.
In an exclusive chat, he said: “The health and well-being market is played out all over Instagram, with fit men and women pushing us to believe in ourselves and be kind to our minds and bodies. “So there is the next generation of Gladiators right there ready to inspire us — and a new audience ready to absorb it. “I think it would be a hit — TV bosses are.
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