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BBC reveals future of Gladiators reboot - and confirms brand new spin-off series that fans will LOVE

BBC reveals future of Gladiators reboot - and confirms brand new spin-off series that fans will LOVE

Daily Mail​11 hours ago

The future of Gladiators has been revealed as a brand new spin-off is confirmed that fans will love.
Presented by Bradley and Barney Walsh, the BBC competition show sees players attempt to take on super-humans.
Series two aired earlier this year and now, a third is set to hit screens in 2026, as well as a celebrity special.
Much loved superheroes Apollo, Athena, Bionic, Comet, Cyclone, Diamond, Dynamite, Electro, Fire, Fury, Giant, Hammer, Legend, Nitro, Phantom, Sabre, Steel, and Viper are all set to return with their impressive strength and agility.
The competition will be packed with brand new events as well as four brave celebrities who will enter the arena.
BBC boss Kalpna Patel-Knight promised fans 'even more epic battles' with the upcoming series and spin-off.
She said: 'Audiences have loved getting together to watch our mighty Gladiators take on contenders from all across the UK with younger fans especially excited to cheer on their Saturday night superheroes.
'With this brand-new series and another Celebrity Special confirmed there will be even more epic battles, more high-octane action and of course even more foam fingers than ever before for everyone to look forward to!'
Gladiators hit 5.3million viewers on average and became the most watched Saturday night series on BBC iPlayer.
Dan Baldwin, Managing Director of Hungry Bear Media, a production company behind the show, added: 'We have been absolutely blown away by the reception Gladiators has received from families up and down the country.
'It has become a HUGE part of Saturday night viewing on the BBC. We are extremely excited to deliver another series, so expect even more spandex, hairspray, protein shakes and fake tan this summer in Sheffield!'
The new series will consist of 11 instalments, while the celebrity special will be just one 60-minute episode.
It comes after a Gladiators star has signed up for this year's Strictly Come Dancing, after 'impressing' BBC producers on the Christmas special.
The superhuman, 36, took part in last year's festive edition and was paired with professional dancer Nancy Xu.
Nitro, whose real name is Harry Aikines Aryeetey, has reportedly agreed to appear on the regular series this autumn.
A show insider told The Sun how the ex-Olympian had been on bosses' wish list for some time now.
The said: 'Bosses have been desperate to get Nitro on the series for a while.
'They were in talks last year but couldn't get the timings to marry up with his work.
'He was a huge hit at Christmas prancing around in lycra and showing off his biceps. Producers were also impressed with his dancing.
'The Gladiators' fanbase is growing and kids love them so he'll be a hit with younger viewers, too.'

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Hercules theatre review: Musical lacks a punch in new take of Disney classic, writes PATRICK MARMION

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Love Island fans call for Megan to be sent home as they brand her a 'gaslighter' and 'the biggest villain in the villa' as she secretly kisses Conor after leaving Tommy in tears
Love Island fans call for Megan to be sent home as they brand her a 'gaslighter' and 'the biggest villain in the villa' as she secretly kisses Conor after leaving Tommy in tears

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Love Island fans call for Megan to be sent home as they brand her a 'gaslighter' and 'the biggest villain in the villa' as she secretly kisses Conor after leaving Tommy in tears

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Don't say garden party — how to ‘outdoor host'
Don't say garden party — how to ‘outdoor host'

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Don't say garden party — how to ‘outdoor host'

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Habitat's £600 version comes with glowing customer reviews ( Don't feel the need to fix everybody a drink as they arrive. Instead, take your lead from 2025's viral self-help tome, The Let Them Theory: set up a self-serve bar with ice, glasses and bottles in coolers for guests to pick and pour from, then leave them to it. This isn't the recipe for disaster it might once have been because … Recent market research (Saturday night at a friend's 40th) indicates that so many people are now sober or 'on the pen', ordering the amount everybody used to consume will leave you with gallons spare. My sources report that rosé was the least consumed and advise serving beers — normal, alcohol-free or perhaps functional mushroom-laced Colliders ( — alongside cocktails that can be made either virgin or not. The fashion crowd have moved on from the Hugo spritz now that the Ocado classes are clamouring for its main elderflower ingredient. Instead, the Select spritz, made with the traditional Venetian liqueur almost certainly being served at the Bezos wedding, is a good halfway house between ubiquitous Aperol and challenging Campari. Plus, way fewer people have heard of it. Tequila, grapefruit and soda palomas are still just edgy enough; Crodinos and Botivo for those on the wagon. • Meghan to release rosé wine under As Ever brand Do yourself a favour and elevate picky bits rather than making a meal the main event. 'Serve crudités and berries in massive bowls on ice,' Jackson says. 'Or set out baguettes, cheese and ham — big piles of one thing always look beautiful and are easy to do.' Another trend is the EBYGH invite (eat before you get here), which comes in response to most dinner parties only really getting going at the moment it is time for everybody to leave. Cubes of feta arranged with cubes of pink grapefruit, watermelon, cantaloupe or nestling Nocellara olives, then herbs, chilli or black sesame seeds sprinkled on top: TikTok's top summer snack. • Can you freeze cheese? 34 cheese questions answered by an expert 'Drizzle it on vanilla ice cream,' says Sarah Vachon, sommelier at the UK's first olive oil cocktail bar in Notting Hill. She recommends Citizens of Soil's Sicilian small-batch (£35, In influencer circles there are those who mould it, using silicone trays, into leaves and seashells, and others who add a bit of water or milk to whip it into gargantuan mounds that act partly as a tablescape feature, surrounded by a generous heap of fashionably leafy radishes. This is part of a trend for … At Copenhagen Design Week placement cards for dinner were slotted into asparagus stems, broad beans and mini aubergines — a great solution for all those unwanted courgettes in the veg box too. Fruit also works: the cookery writer Skye McAlpine dots a summer table with bunches of grapes, while fashion industry dinners are using oranges and grapefruits as everything from ice cream dishes to candle-holders (just shove them in the top). John Lewis's £10 ceramic lemon version and tangerine salt and pepper shakers will do the trick too (£12, Also seen in Copenhagen. You will need: a recycling bin's worth of different-sized glass bottles, each with just one flower in — ranunculus was the preference — then arranged on an oversized linen tablecloth, such as Secret Linen Store's vibrant lime green (£149, 'Let it drape naturally rather than aiming for crisp and traditional,' says Gem Boner, ex of Soho House and proprietor of the beau monde's favourite farm-stay venue, Restaries in Suffolk. Other must-have tabletoppers include H&M's Palm Heights sandstone candle-holders (£24.99, and retro-looking silver steel serving platters. 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