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Gladiators goes woke! BBC reboot axes cheerleaders and skimpiest outfits as classic Nineties show returns to screens after 30 years


In its heyday Gladiators was a groundbreaking production with more than 14million viewers.

The female costumes were so tiny that Suzanne Cox, also known as Vogue in the series, later admitted that she had to use bum glue to stop her outfit from shifting out of place. Left to right: Jet (Diane Youdale), Flame (Kimbra Standish) and Phoenix (Sandy Young) with Wolf (Michael Van Wijk) in the 1992 series of Gladiators GB athlete Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, fitness influencer Matt Morsia and Sheli McCoy, who has competed in five British weightlifting and CrossFit championships worldwide, will all appear throughout the series.

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