Glodiator Sabre claims she wants to inspire young girls by using her platform on the hit program.
The star, real name Sheli McCoy, 36, reveals her ambition stems from being teased about her athletic appearance at school. She says: “The main reason I joined was to inspire young girls. When they told me there would be a platform for a wider audience, I agreed to it.
” Throughout school I was called a man because I was athletic, I had a lower voice. I aspired to be a part of the group that helped women understand their own authority. That you can be fit, you can have a six-pack, you can have bigger shoulders than your boyfriend, and that’s OK.
“It’s important to me that women can be unapologetically athletic, they can still be feminine, they can still wear dresses, they can be pretty. Because I could also kill you, I do have a teddy bear, so I’m okay with that. Raised in Fife, she earned a master’s degree in health science from Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University. Before opening her own gym, she later won three different weight categories and was a champion in Scotland.
Sabre pressed Sabre to find out if the rebooted version of Gladiators would be different from the 90s during the interview process. She says: “I asked how women were going to be perceived. I did say, ‘ are women going to be equals in the show? ‘ They were, in some ways, in the previous show, but the entire objectification of women persisted.
” But it’s 2024… and the BBC have definitely given women space to show their power, stamina, agility]and] skill. Sabre returns to our screens as the second Gladiators series debuts this evening after being hurt last year in a game called The Edge. Six million people tuned in last year.
And the Gladiators have back-up as Irish powerlifter Cyclone, 23, and world rowing champion, Hammer, 32, from Nottingham, have joined. In the 1990s, the program was a huge hit. Hosted by Ulrika Jonsson and John Fashanu, Gladiators included former Olympic and Commonwealth swimming champion Sharron Davies, 62, who was known as Amazon and Diane Youdale-Gilbert, 54, who was Jet.
Diane recalled how managers had posed for the female Gladiators in uncomfortable poses last year. She stated on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour that they wanted to film a grab shot of the girls who were semi-draped over this jeep without putting our tracksuit bottoms on. I said, ‘ absolutely not'”.
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