{"id":211925,"date":"2025-12-26T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211925\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:54:10","slug":"vogue-williams-and-joe-wicks-win-gladiators-celebrity-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211925\/","title":{"rendered":"Vogue Williams and Joe Wicks win Gladiators: Celebrity Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hosted by father-son duo Bradley and Barney Walsh, the BBC game show sees two male and two female contenders compete in a series of physical challenges against the show\u2019s elite athletes, known as the Gladiators, who each have a fictional character name.<\/p>\n

Following a nail-biting finale on Christmas Day, Wicks and Williams were crowned the champions of the festive celebrity instalment after defeating presenter Sam Thompson and boxing star Nicola Adams.<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/p>\n

Joe Wicks on Gladiators: (BBC\/Hungry Bear Media Ltd\/Graeme Hunter\/PA)<\/p>\n

Wicks said: \u201cEven though I had a bit of a breather, I still found that travelator hard. It\u2019s much harder doing it in real life than watching it on TV.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really chuffed that I won but I have to say Sam has been an amazing partner.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fitness coach, 40, is best known for his online PE workouts, which became popular during the Covid-19 lockdowns, and for authoring a number of cookbooks.<\/p>\n

Despite his defeat, Made In Chelsea star Thompson was in high spirits and, referring to himself with his self-appointed Gladiator name, told the Utilita Arena in Sheffield: \u201cEl Cockroacho, baby \u2013 you can\u2019t stamp him out!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Vogue<\/p>\n

Vogue Williams on Gladiators: (BBC\/Hungry Bear Media Ltd\/Graeme Hunter\/PA)<\/p>\n

In the other eliminator, Williams, who was two-hundredths of a second ahead of Adams in completing the course, said: \u201cI honestly cannot believe it, I\u2019ve had the best day ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe crowd when I was doing so badly were so nice to me so thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her win comes after her stint in the Australian jungle as a contestant on ITV\u2019s I\u2019m A Celebrity\u2026 Get Me Out Of Here!<\/p>\n

Olympic gold medallist and former boxer Adams said: \u201cI came down on the zipline and landed funny on my ankle and I just couldn\u2019t get it going again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first silver medal I\u2019ve had!\u201d she joked.<\/p>\n

\"Gladiators.<\/p>\n

Gladiators. Picture: BBC\/Hungry Bear Media Ltd\/Graeme Hunter<\/p>\n

Adams became the first woman to win Olympic gold in her sport when she took the flyweight title at London 2012, and successfully defended her crown in Rio four years later.<\/p>\n

In 2020, she appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with professional dancer Katya Jones as the show\u2019s first same-sex couple.<\/p>\n

Gladiators: Celebrity Special is available to stream on BBC iPlayer with the new series of Gladiators airing on BBC One and iPlayer early in the new year.<\/p>\n

\"Vogue<\/p>\n

Vogue Williams on Gladiators: Celebrity Special (BBC\/Hungry Bear Media\/Graeme Hunter\/PA)<\/p>\n

Today’s News in 90 Seconds – Friday, December 26th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hosted by father-son duo Bradley and Barney Walsh, the BBC game show sees two male and two female…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,12460],"class_list":["post-211925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-vogue-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}