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Channel 4 show Celebrity Hunted with Express.co.uk.The rugby star spoke candidly on the red carpet for Nordoff Robbins Legends of Rugby Dinner. Martin, 56, is no stranger to reality TV, having appeared on shows like Celebrity Come Dine With Me and even the first ever series of Strictly Come Dancing. When asked on the red carpet if he would be up for doing more shows in the future, he confirmed that he would. “Yes, I love doing reality TV!” he said. “I did Celebrity Hunted a while back and the series has just come back out again.”While Martin was positive about his experience of reality TV, the sports star admitted that it wasn’t all positive. “It was very stressful, the most stressful 11 days of my life!” the star said of the Channel 4 show. “When you’re being hunted by the hunters for the whole week, your body doesn’t realise what’s real and what’s not real. “You just realise you’re being chased,” he added ominously. Martin appeared on the 2019 series of Celebrity Hunted alongside fellow rugby legend Gavin Henson.The pair were also joined by the likes of Stanley Johnson and Georgia 'Toff' Toffolo, who appeared on the 2017 series of I'm a Celebrity.Celebrity chefs Aldo Zilli & Jean-Christophe Novelli were also in the mix, while former TOWIE stars and best friends Lucy Mecklenburgh and Lydia Bright completed the line-up.Martin was inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame in 2013 after an incredibly successful career in the sport.The athlete played for English league clubs Wigan, London Broncos, Widnes and Salford City Reds, while in Australia, he also played for Sydney's Eastern Suburbs and St.

Ugo Monye explained to Express.co.uk how he “didn’t realise” that he could connect to dance in such an emotional way until Rose Ayling-Ellis’ Strictly performance with her partner Giovanni Pernice left him in tears.The rugby star, 38, has teamed up with Boots UK for the second series of the health and wellbeing podcast Taboo Talk, where he discusses the topic of chronic pain with host Vogue Williams.Ugo, who was paired up with Oti Mabuse for the latest season of Strictly Come Dancing, has recalled the iconic moment that Rose, 27, and Giovanni, 31, performed a dance that allowed audiences to enter Rose’s world.Rose, who was the show’s first ever deaf contestant, chose to feature a moment of silence during their pair’s performance to Symphony by Clean Bandit and Zara Larsson.Speaking about how “exposing” it can be to reveal your emotions as both a man and an athlete, Ugo admitted that Strictly Come Dancing left a lasting impression on him emotionally.“I knew that doing Strictly could be really exposing - and I don't mean physically, where I had my top off in a couple of the dances and dressed like Pink Panther and stuff like that,” he began.“But I remember going to the final, where I was sitting with Oti, and when I watched Rose dance - she had that kind of stop-traffic moment, iconic dance - I was crying. “I was crying watching it live and I'd seen it before,” Ugo confirmed.“I remember saying to Oti at the time, and to a few of my friends, that I didn't realise that dance can have an impact in the way in which it did on me that night. “So what I took from it was: it's really important to try different things that you know might not be familiar or might be out of your comfort zone, because you just don't know how they'll

Strictly star, 38, has teamed up with Boots UK for the second series of the health and wellbeing podcast Taboo Talk, where he discusses the topic of chronic pain with host Vogue Williams. In an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, Ugo described the pain he feels on a daily basis, as well as addressing why pain is such a taboo subject in the sporting world.When quizzed on the subject of pain, Ugo began: “I think we have almost a slight strained relationship with it. “Playing a physical contact sport you become adapted to pain, don't you? But messages you get on the pitch… If you've been tackled hard in any sense, your competitive instinct is to get back up because you don't want to let anyone down. “You want to be able to do your best for the team and just contribute as much as you can, and I only ever spent 80 minutes on a pitch - but those behaviours become part of your day to day.”Ugo went on to reveal that he suffers from chronic back pain, a health issue that made his time on Strictly Come Dancing particularly difficult.“Now I've been retired for six years, dealing with chronic back pain has just become part of my norm,” Ugo admitted. He went on to share that he would be undergoing surgery to try and lessen the pain, which he had at the start of this week.“I'm actually having back surgery on Monday and my symptoms...” he began. “I mean, there's not a moment of the day where I'm not in pain.  “And because it's been a number of months now, you just become used to it,” Ugo explained. He went on to discuss how athletes, and particularly men, struggle to open up about the pain they are experiencing.“But then dealing with it: that's the next hurdle.

Springbok fullback Warrick Gelant is celebrating his 25th birthday today! To celebrate the rugby hero’s birthday we are sharing some fun facts about the man with you.

For R32-12 you can have the shirt off Siya Kolisi’s back, the boots off Bongi Mbonambi’s feet or have a personal Rugby World Cup trophy tour – to your home! This is part of a major new charity initiative that SA Rugby has launched. The Springbok 2019 Rugby World Cup winning squad has put up their cherished mementos in what promises to be SA Rugby’s biggest-ever raffle with all the proceeds going to hunger alleviation charities, Food Forward SA and Gift of the Givers.

Springbok prop Trevor Nyakane is celebrating his 31st birthday today. To celebrate the star rugby player’s day of birth we are sharing some fun facts about the man with you.

The Government has pledged £16m to the Rugby Football League in a bid to stop clubs from going bankrupt due to the coronavirus crisis.

Rugby World Cup winning Springbok scrum-half Herschel Jantjies is celebrating his 24th birthday today. To celebrate, we are sharing some fun facts with you, as well as videos showing some highlights of his Springbok rugby career so far.

Joe Marler could walk away from professional rugby aged just 29 following the incident that took place during England’s Six Nations win over Wales.

England ace Joe Marler stunned Welsh star Alun Wyn Jones as he appeared to grab his genitals during their Six Nations clash.

Director of Rugby, Rassie Erasmus, is all in with SA Rugby’s #StrongerTogether for R32-12 campaign, which is aimed at raising funds to feed those in need during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, while a unique new prize was added to the collection. SA Rugby has revealed that it has raised more than R500 000 in the first six days of the campaign, in which a raffle ticket for R32-12 puts you in line to win one of several unique prizes from members of the Springbok Rugby World Cup squad.