LET’S WORK IT OUT: TV fitness gurus

Launching his new series tonight, Joe Wicks (7.10pm, Ch4) is the latest trainer promising lean bodies for his devotees. Here are a few of our favourite TV fitness stars from over the years… Jane Fonda Now 78 and looking great, Jane pretty much started it all. She had previously used ballet to keep fit, but an injury led to her taking up aerobics. Finding that gyms were mostly for men, she opened a studio, wrote a bestselling book and launched a life-changing side career as a fitness guru. She made her first exercise video in 1982, when she was in her 40s, bringing her routines to millions. There were 22 videos by 1995, selling 17 million copies in all – re-released on DVD last year – and in 2010, she began to make fitness DVDs for older people. Diana Moran Britain’s answer to Jane Fonda in the 1980s was Diana Moran. Nicknamed the Green Goddess because of her striking green leotard, she took viewers at home through a series of exercises every morning on BBC1’s Breakfast Time, from 1983 to 1987. Rosemary Conley Rosemary founded her own slimming club, combining healthy eating with aerobic workouts. As well as TV appearances, she released a series of bestselling books and videos, and took part in Dancing On Ice in 2012. Derrick Evans, aka Mr Motivator, bounced his way through the 1990s in colourful spandex outfits, and got the nation moving in the morning on GMTV. He’s still moving and motivating with new get-fit programmes and public appearances – and who could forget his 2012 single, In Da House?