Gladiators in new row as contender calls out Phantom for cheating during event

GLADIATORS person recovered themselves successful a caller enactment aft a contender called retired Phantom for cheating during an event.

Toby Olubi has been taking up the alter-ego of Phantom on the show.

He antecedently said successful an interview: “Gladiators is each astir stepping up against the likelihood and bringing the champion mentation of yourself.”

And helium promised to haunt each those who dared to spell up against him connected Gladiators.

Now, amid the 2025 bid of the show, a contender has called him retired for cheating during a situation named Unleash.

Mus, who is simply a younker idiosyncratic from East London, spoke connected societal media.

He said: “First and foremost, I’ve got to springiness a large outcry retired to Mark Clattenburg for doing his occupation correctly.

“He called retired Phantom erstwhile helium tried to cheat during Unleash.

Mus carried on: “See Phantom, yeah, helium saw my legs determination and helium saw that gait and helium wasn’t acceptable for it.

“Guy had to chopped corners, but yea that was a bully effect truthful I’ll take that.”

He besides called the lawsuit itself “super nervewracking.”

Adding: “When you’re lasting determination and you don’t adjacent get a countdown, the referee says ‘you volition spell connected this archetypal whistle,’ and helium blows it.

“Anyway, arsenic soon arsenic I heard the whistle, my legs started moving and past my psyche caught up with me.

“Then I could conscionable consciousness the aura of a gladiator, and astatine this constituent I didn’t cognize it was Phantom who was down me.

“I could perceive everyone successful the assemblage screaming and I was conscionable dashing.”

Commenting connected Mus’ video online, 1 idiosyncratic wrote: “Love this guy. Confident but not cocky. I'd similar to spot a rematch!”

But idiosyncratic other called retired Mus for cheating, writing: “Mus went earlier the whistle successful the Wall and the Eliminator. Just saying.”

To which different Gladiators instrumentality responded: “Fair point. He cheated twice.”

Fans of the fashionable format will person to hold a small longer for the adjacent occurrence as Gladiators will beryllium backmost connected Saturday 15th February.

In the meantime, the BBC will beryllium providing unrecorded sum of the FA Cup 2024/25 Fourth Round clash between Birmingham City and Newcastle United next Saturday.

Football fans tin tune successful for each the enactment from 5:30pm.

The world amusement returned for its 3rd installment of the 2nd series, pursuing its palmy reboot past year.

Mus’ claims astir Phantom travel aft Bradley and Barney Walsh introduced the archetypal conflict called The Ring arsenic Steel and Phantom took connected the archetypal 2 contenders.

However, conscionable moments successful the crippled was halted by caput referee Mark Clattenburg.

As helium blew his whistle, Mark could beryllium heard telling Steel: "Your shoe, 1 minute."

It past transpired the gladiator's laces needed to beryllium tied, and Mark gladly obliged him.