Sunday April 20
6.30pm

It’s a battle of the gymnasts on GLADIATORS this week. But will their flexibility and agility help them to evade defeat against the powering Gladiators?

Aerial acrobat Rony, 26, from Queensland and gymnast Ashleigh, 21, from Victoria should have an advantage in the aerial games of Hang Tough and Pendulum. But the female Gladiators will be out to bring them back down to earth.

Will age prove to be an issue for the men when science teacher Phillip, 24, from Queensland takes on 34-year-old business manager Shane from NSW? Both the men have football backgrounds, so will it help them against the hard hits of the Gladiators in the Gauntlet or the big tackles of Powerball.

Between them the might of the Gladiators towers 25.6 metres and weigh in at a formidable 1.19 tonnes. Working together as a powerful and commanding team, the Gladiators are more than strong opponents, they’re skilful combatants and the Challengers will have to outwit as well as outplay to gain valuable victories.

Will the Challengers gain any valuable points before squaring off against one another in the Eliminator?

The winners will proceed to the quarter finals, with the two overall winners of the series (one male and one female) sharing in $100,000 and two All Wheel Drive Subaru Foresters.

GLADIATORS is hosted by TOM WILLIAMS and ZOE NAYLOR with referee BILL HARRIGAN.