DIANE YOUDALE

I was running my own Dance and Fitness School in Farnham, Surrey while maintaining commitments to castings and auditions in London. I'd previously finished my professional training in choreography and performing arts at London Contemporary and The London Studio Centre... The oddest casting came up whereby I found myself doing gym tests at the Woolwich Barracks army assault course for a show that was coming over from America called ‘Gladiators'. The rest is history and I spent 4 and a half years swinging, hitting, grappling, tackling, flying and sprinting around the then NIA in Birmingham (now the Barclaycard Arena.) My character as ‘Jet' was accepted into many a living room and I received some of the nicest feedback to this day from that time in my life ...and struck a chord with some of the kindest hearts too, I believe!?... I left following an accident at the live Wembley Arena show in the Spring of 1996. By this time I had started doing many more TV appearances. I had numerous..