ONE of the stars of 90s game show Gladiators, who says he'd love to return to York having been ordained as a priest, is set to star in a new reality TV series.
Warren Furman is perhaps best-known for his eight-year stint as Ace in the first incarnation of the smash hit ITV show Gladiators, but as The Press previously reported, after the show ended in 2000 he became a Christian in York and came to live in the city where he met his wife, Dionne.
Now the 53-year-old is set to star in new ITV reality series, The Summit, which will see Warren compete against other contestants in a gruelling mountain climb in New Zealand.
The show, which starts on Tuesday (February 10) at 9pm, tasks the 14 contestants with ascending a peak over 14 days, competing for a cash prize of £200,000.
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Speaking to The Press previously, Warren said: "Dionne was an air hostess for 25 years with Virgin Atlantic and I was in York doing panto at the Grand Opera House.
"We met on a night out in York, and the rest as they say is history."
Warren had come to York in the first place to visit Gladiators co-star James Crossley who played Hunter and says he and Dionne went on to live in the city for 20 years.
Warren decided to attend one at St Michael Le Belfrey Church, near York Minster, and it eventually led to him becoming a Christian.
He, lives in London with Dionne and children Bailey and Anna.
He and Dionne were ordained together at St Paul’s Cathedral by the Bishop of London and work in Hammersmith.
Warren said: "We will soon be looking for a church of our own to lead which is exciting and we are wondering if the Lord might call us back to God's Own Country, to wonderful Yorkshire to lead a church which we would love.
"We came to faith in York and we'd love to be there."
Recently he's been working in prisons.
He said: "Working in a prison you find people who have come to the end of themselves. They have realised they are broken.
"They have made some mistakes and have a lot more time to consider themselves spiritually.
"We write them off as a society like they have lost their value as a human being and that's a mistake I think. I regularly see lives transformed."
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