{"id":15406,"date":"2026-04-24T17:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15406"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:17:31","slug":"giants-leaving-gladiators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15406","title":{"rendered":"Giant&#8217;s leaving Gladiators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If people can save their shiny floor drama for a day when I&#8217;m not out and about in future that would be great, thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway Giant (Jamie Bigg) is leaving <strong>Gladiators<\/strong>, he did a post on Instagram suggesting basically he was asked to do something that didn&#8217;t align with his values so he&#8217;s off (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cpvx9yjk9ggo\">you can read the story on BBC News<\/a>). The first Gladiator to leave! It&#8217;s probably not <em>quite<\/em> Jet leaving, but he&#8217;s certainly one of the bigger (as it were) faces of the revival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two, well three things of interest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What was the thing he was asked to do he would not? On the Discord I joked <strong>American Gladiators<\/strong>, this got no reaction but probably would have got quite a big laugh on <strong>Have I Got News For You<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They didn&#8217;t have social media in the nineties, but now we&#8217;re going to have things play out through he said\/she said comments on social media for this sort of thing now aren&#8217;t we?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many of the Gladiators turn up on each other&#8217;s social videos in their non-Gladiator guises &#8211; he&#8217;s been in plenty of Legend&#8217;s (Matt Morsia) Mattdoesfitness videos, for example. Does this make this sort of thing politically difficult going forward? Is this going to set a number of dominos toppling? There were a lot of injuries last year, are we going to hear of many other Glads leaving in the next couple of weeks before filming?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The impression I got was that it was a bit of a difficult third album to film last year but they seemed to edit it together quite well. Is this where it begins to fall apart? I thought it would be three and out but the numbers have held a lot better than anticipated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15404\">If you&#8217;re looking for the Show Discussion post for <strong>The Neighbourhood<\/strong> which has been pushed down, it&#8217;s here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If people can save their shiny floor drama for a day when I&#8217;m not out and about in future that would be great, thanks. 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