Home Advent Calendar 2018 Day 15: Battle Of The Gladiators Celebrity Special, 1993

John Fashanu says "awooga!" twice before Ulrika can actually introduce the programme, which is a fitting start to a special that went out right before the second series' final, enough time for Jet to become a national obsession and 'oversized cotton buds' to become the show's shorthand. Playing for charity in a line-up that features a distinct lack of women are the inevitable Vinnie Jones, Fashanu himself at one stage clearly pretending to have lost his male dignity, boxers Denis Andries (who is sweating buckets in the introductory interview) and Gary Mason, gymnast Neil Adams and showjumper Oliver Skeete, who as a black horseman was all over the media for a short time while never actually achieving anything of worth in the sport.