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I was in the Gladiators audience - filming took so long we left before the Eliminator and you can even see the mass walkouts on the show


The physically challenging game-show was resurrected by the broadcasting giant in January, 32-years after its original ITV launch and 16-years after Sky One scrapped an earlier revival.

The sizeable audience share turned it into the most successful launch for an entertainment show on the BBC in seven years, with an average 8.3million viewers watching across the entire eleven episodes. 'I can reveal we are going to do a celebrity special,' Executive Producer and Hungry Bear Media Managing Director Dan Baldwin, husband of TV presenter Holly Willoughby , told Radio 4. He said: 'Of course, it means that we will, despite budget pressures, prioritise big national occasions – from the Coronation, Eurovision, the Proms and Glastonbury, to the Olympics and the Euros, or Strictly or Gladiators, Children in Need or even that great drama: Election Night.'

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