Joe Wicks

Fitness fanatic, Joe Wicks helped many people keep fit throughout lockdown during the pandemic. An MBE known as The Body Coach, Wicks has a new documentary ...

As Wicks progressed in fitness knowledge and experience, his public profile rose. Before he landed a successful career as The Body Coach, Joe Wicks worked as a teaching assistant after completing his sports science degree. Wicks is a father of two and married to glamour model, Rosie Jones in 2019.

Fitness coach Joe Wicks held back tears on This Morning during an emotional moment talking about his traumatic childhood…

"What I've realised is, you can work through it and you can actually have an amazing friendship. "You know there's stuff locked inside you as a kid that you suppress and you don't want to confront. "I treated myself because I was overwhelmed with what was going on at home, I couldn't deal with that.

Joe Wicks opens up about what it was like growing up in a household where mental health and addiction issues were common in his upcoming BBC documentary, ...

George seems to have completely different interests than his brothers who have a love for fitness. Joe isn’t an only child, he actually has two brothers, Nikki and George who also had to repair their relationship with their parents. He was kind of like my right-hand man who you couldn’t see." He said: “Nikki is my brother. His parents Raquela and Gary split up when he was 16. He’s also my best friend.

JOE Wicks is known for being the fitness guru who got the nation exercising during lockdown.The Body Coach is now opening up about his family life in.

I couldn’t hang out with him enough." "I’d run home from school to be with him. In his documentary, Joe Wicks: Facing My Childhood he opens up about his father's drug battle, and his mother's OCD. He’s also my best friend. Who is Joe Wicks' brother George? Who is Joe Wicks' brother Nikki?

In Joe Wicks: Facing My Childhood on BBC Two tonight, the nation's PE teacher goes on an emotional journey to discover how his parents' mental health issues ...

Speaking at a screening of the film, Joe said: “For her to leave a one-year-old with a heroin addict, how hard that must have been... Joe added: "He had been an addict for the majority of his life, but he is clean now, which is important. “I couldn’t walk through the door without taking my shoes off or have friends round. Tearful Raquela says: "It was one of the hardest things I ever had to do. Joe said: “We had such a confrontational relationship. Some of my friends had wonderful home lives, but they ended up doing drugs and going down that route."

Despite the painful reminder of his upsetting childhood, Wicks was a beacon of positivity throughout the documentary.

“Do you want a little hug?” he asked Nikki. By the end of a powerful but hopeful film, I felt I needed one too. She survived off chocolate and cans of coke.” He also spoke to his father, who started drinking and taking drugs at 13 and believes, to this day, substance abuse saved his life by medicating his depression. In the hard-hitting yet ultimately optimistic and redemptive Joe Wicks: Facing My Childhood, he composed voicemails for many of those who had reached out.

The nation's favourite PE teacher explored his troubled upbringing and how it shaped who he is today in a moving documentary.

It was a great thing to do, but he admitted here that he felt “really low” when it ended. As the programme title suggested, Wicks had a difficult childhood which has shaped the person he is today. It has always been obvious that there is something driving Joe Wicks. Not just the ambition common to successful people, but something more complicated.

The fitness guru, 36, tugged at the heartstrings of BBC viewers on Monday night they tuned in to watch his emotional documentary Facing My Childhood.

It's given me that drive and empathy to want to help others and even share this story. 'I am in a much more positive place with it all. It was a very emotional process but I’ve come away from it feeling stronger and more positive. 'There you will find links to all the relevant charities and services you may need. 'It’s so important we talk about our issues and remove the shame, guilt and stigma from mental illness and addiction. One moved fan said they were in awe of the father of two: 'Joe Wicks... you are absolutely amazing & incredibly inspiring.

Celebrity confessionals about mental health are fashionable fare for documentaries now (recently we've had Fergal Keane and Will Young) but they have ...