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Inside the lives of the Gladiators that went wayward: Cocaine, blackmail, and a plot to bail out an international drug lord
Controversies were a feature of the Gladiators' original cast, both on and off-screen. Find out about all the Gladiators whose lives went astray here.
In 2018 the shamed former Gladiator Mike Ahearne, aka Warrior, hit the headlines as a court heard that he was caught by police with shopping bags full of steroids and CS spray canisters He is the brother-in-law of Liverpool drugs baron Curtis Warren, who tried to foil the investigation by paying corrupt officer Detective Chief Inspector Elmore 'Elly' Davies £10,000 to pass on details of what the police knew about the incident, when a doorman was also shot. Following a trial at Nottingham Crown Court in 1998, at which Ahearne decided not to give evidence, the TV star was convicted of an act with tendency to pervert the course of justice and jailed for 15 months.
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