Race Across the World's Sioned has a famous relative and amazing Gladiators connection

Wales Online

24-04-2025

Race Across the World's Sioned has a famous relative and amazing Gladiators connection
Race Across the World's Sioned and Fin appeared on S4C's Heno where they revealed her famous Welsh relative.
The pair appeared on the Welsh language programme Heno to discuss their time on Race Across the World
(Image: Heno/Tinopolis/S4C )
A young Welsh couple from Carmarthenshire has already made a mark on Race Across the World fans after the first episode of the new season. Fin and Sioned, who were 18 and 19 at the time of recording, appeared on S4C's evening magazine programme, Heno, to discuss their time on the series.
During the interview with presenters Angharad Mair and former Welsh football player Owain Tudur Jones, they revealed Sioned's famous Welsh relative and her family connection to the series Gladiators.
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The famous Welsh presenter and BAFTA Cymru chair Angharad explained that Sioned was actually her niece by marriage. For the latest TV and showbiz gossip sign up to our newsletter .
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Angharad has been a huge TV personality in Wales since the early 90s and has even been described as "the true princess of Wales" by the popular Instagram page Huns Cymru. The TV host also competed as a runner in the 19990s, entering trials for the GB athletics squad for the 1997 World Championships in Athens. Her husband, Jonathon Cray's brother is the father of Sioned.
This means that she's also the cousin of Angharad's daughter, Tanwen Cray, who is a BBC and S4C weather presenter and star of S4C's series Tanwen and Ollie with her partner Swansea City and Welsh football player Ollie Cooper.
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Sioned and Fin, have swapped their small-town Welsh life for a 14,000km adventure across Asia. They started on The Great Wall of China as they race the other four teams across China, Nepal and India, before ending in Kanniyakumari, which is the southernmost tip of India.
They've recently been dubbed as "the cutest" by fans after appearing on the first episode of the series. They finished second in the first section of the race, although along the way they had a few hurdles including Fin's health. Read more here.
During the second part of the programme, Angharad revealed that Sioned has a weird connection to the show Gladiators. Before Sioned was born a woman from a rural town in South West Wales appeared on the competition show, that woman was her mother, Meleri Davies.
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Sioned's mother once appeared on Gladiators it was revealed on S4C's Heno.
(Image: Heno/Tinopolis/S4C )
The presenters showed the pair the clip of her mother on Gladiators back in the 1990s when it aired on ITV and was hosted by John Fashnu and Ulrika Johnson. In the showreel, we saw her being interviewed as the camera later panned to an audience full of Welsh flags and signs saying "Pob Lwc Meleri."
She told the presenter: "They've travelled a really long way to support me, so I'm going to give it my all."
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Sioned told the presenters that it was still funny seeing that clip despite having seen it before. She explained that her mother lost in the end and that she is still gutted about it.
Fin and Sioned will appear on Race Across the World on BBC One and BBC iPlayer every Wednesday at 9pm.