The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - The Telegraph Magazine
January 2019
After flexing his oddly pumped body on I’ma
Celebrity, Edmonds launches his Youtube over-40s exercise channel, Are You Fitter Than a 69-Year-old?, in time for the glum January joggers trying to shift Christmas from their hips. ‘Hands up who feels like Mr Blobby!’ he announces, before dropping to the floor to do press-ups with Maggie Philbin in the lotus position on his back. The reference to Multi-coloured
Swap Shop backfires when Chris Tarrant becomes a viral hit with rival Gymwas, in which he, Lenny Henry and Sally James trash a different branch of Fitness First with shaving foam each week.