Tornado on Gladiators – The anti-Harry?

19 May 2008 Rob Buckley UK TV Post a comment

Tornado from Gladiators

According to this week’s Heat, Tornado from Gladiators (real name: David) is a "Royal Marines commando and an army boxing champion. After filming, he expects to return to serve in Afghanistan."

Do you reckon he’s like the anti-Prince Harry?

‘A Taliban spokesman said: "We’d been taking it a bit easy for a while. Then we heard off Chris Moyles on Radio 1 that Prince Harry was on the front line and we thought to ourselves, "You know what? Although the might of the allied forces has been trained on us for ages and we’ve been doing our level best to kill them, we now have added motivation to attack those troops in the vain chance we might stand a chance of finding one particular Royal soldier for a potential PR coup."

‘But then we were watching Gladiators on Sky One and we thought to ourselves, "That Tornado’s coming back soon? Well, we’re not having not none of that. He’ll open a mighty big can of whoop ass on us. Let’s back off."’

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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