This workout DVD was brought out in 2005, the year after she appeared on ‘I’m a celebrity get me out of here’ where she hooked up with 90s pop star Peter Andre. Not that she's pretended otherwise, to be fair Jordan makes money out of her selling herself. And is there any adjective damning with more faint praise than ‘occasional’ singer? All we’re left with really is “personality” and ‘businesswoman”. The glamour modelling with which she first came to the public’s attention is now just a ‘former’ occupation. It’s a pretty underwhelming set of achievements, really.Īs an author, every one of her 38 books has been written by someone else. Wikipedia lists Katie’s Prices career achievements as: media personality, author, former glamour model, occasional singer and businesswoman. Maybe replace it with “Would I recommend this to a friend?” or “Would I sooner do this again than wank off a pig?” I’m not going to do any of these workouts again probably. Apart from the Pyramid Jumping which I didn’t attempt. The credits reveal that both the characters share Mr Motivator’s surname (not Motivator, the other one) which, at least explains what they are doing on the DVD. If this was recorded in the current century on a camera designed for the purpose then the fact that this woman’s face looks like it’s been blurred out for security purposes for the Upper Body conditioning workout is a little bit disappointing.īetween workouts there are baffling “comedy” segments with The Mad Professor and his assistant. All the time I was excusing the shoddy quality because I thought it had been copied straight from VHS to DVD and that they’d tried to make up for how shit it was by introducing a “select your own workout” feature (that doesn’t really work). In which case the production values are truly terrible. However further research (Wikipedia) has revealed this is a new recording made in 2007. I originally assumed it was a re-release of one of Mr Motivator’s original videos from the 90s. This really is the perfect mix of holiday brochure and pantomime. “Smile! Jesus loves you!” (You know hardly anyone says that on Fitness DVDs.) “They started out with me looking rough but I’ve rebuilt them.” I could listen to Mr M talking rubbish all day though. Normally I complain about people talking too much rubbish in workout DVDs. But mostly because jumping up and down a lot is logistically awkward.
This is partly because I prefer lovely Mr Motivator to bossy Mr Motivator.
I didn’t like the Pyramid workouts where Mr M dresses as an army sergeant major and orders his coquettishly-dressed squadron to perform a bunch of jumpy-up-and-down exercise. But you all know how excited I get when there’s an opportunity to use my dumbbells. Most of the sections are great – I particularly enjoyed the Upper body conditioning workout. But if his parties consist of jogging on the spot and arm-stretching rather than booze, snacks and impromptu balloon games, I think I’ll probably give it a miss. Although, it looks like a pretty rubbish party to be honest. The workout sections consist of: Fun Calypso Workout Upper Body Conditioning Bikini Body Workout, Pyramid Workout and Bums Legs and Tums. And a couple of very fit – but quite mumsy – looking ladies from the UK. Mr Motivator is joined by a whole bunch of impossibly gorgeous young Jamaican people. One of the locations is an ecotourism resort owned by Mr M himself. The workouts are performed against a backdrop of tropical greenery, cliffs and sandy white beaches. Some might say he overdoes it a bit with his bandana AND glasses AND moustache AND mad clothes.
Mr Motivator - or Derrick Evans as he is known to his friends and the inland Revenue – looks fab. And by ‘celebrities’ I mean people of whom an exertaphobe such as myself was vaguely aware.
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He and Mad Lizzie (from TV-am) are the only two TV fitness instructors I can think of who became celebrities in their own right. This week’s reviewee is 1990’s GMTV fitness instructor – Mr Motivator. Of course, it’s a shame that they are orphans now but – meh – you can’t have everything. And it’s nice those orphans can sleep soundly at night. It’s not like I’m the only hard-working parent with super-villains to vanquish and fiendish plots to undermine. What MUST she think of me?Īh well, I won’t bore you with the humdrum aspects of my life which have hampered my ability to upload this week’s reviews. And this is since getting Clare Balding as a celebrity twitter follower as well. And once again, I shamefully left you hanging on for the next exciting instalment of C-List Celebrity Workouts.