Former Gladiators star Sharron Davies, who played Amazon in the 1990s, is known for her campaigning on women’s sports
Gladiators made its comeback on the BBC in 2024 and the triumphant reboot is now in its third series, which is scheduled to broadcast in January 2026. In April 2025, it was revealed the programme would launch a new live arena tour.
Given the show’s popularity, viewers have been reminiscing about the original lineup, with Sharron Davies joining as Amazon in 1995.
With sport and fitness being her primary focus, she established an online fitness platform, Sharron Davies Training, in January 2022.
Now aged 63, the former competitive swimmer has spoken candidly about missing out on a gold medal in Moscow in 1980. She has also featured on Question Time sharing her perspective on transgender rights and has opened up about financial difficulties.
She came second to an East German rival, Petra Schneider, whose triumph was performance-enhanced through drugs, and she has restated her firm stance on ‘doping’, reports the Express.
Unfair Play: The Battle For Women’s Sport is the name of her 2023 publication which outlines her beliefs on how women in sport remain disadvantaged.
Apart from releasing her book, the celebrity has voiced her opinions regarding the involvement of trans women in female sporting events.
Earlier in 2025, she featured on Good Morning Britain, revealing she and sailor Tracy Edwards had established a “women’s sports union” aimed at maintaining the separation of transgender athletes from female sports at grassroots and youth levels. She’s also recognised for her political activism, having publicly endorsed Conservative Party politician Kemi Badenoch in 2022.
Now the party leader, Badenoch nominated Davies for a peerage in honour of her sporting accomplishments and advocacy for women’s rights.
In terms of her personal life, she has been married thrice between 1987 and 2009. Her first marriage was to gym manager John Crisp, but they divorced four years later in 1991.
The subsequent year, she met Olympic athlete Derek Redmond, and they tied the knot in 1994, welcoming two children together.
Her third marriage was to Tony Kingston, a British Airways pilot, in 2002. The couple had been trying to conceive for four years and had undergone eight rounds of IVF treatment before successfully conceiving.
During a Sport Relief event in Devon, she shared: “We’re very optimistic and happy but we’re cautious, too, because of what we have been through.
“Giving birth at 44 doesn’t worry me. So many women go through this as they leave it later to have babies.”
Her third child was born in January 2007, and she separated from her husband after seven years of wedded bliss in 2009.
Source: Mirror
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