Joe Wicks: I’ve taken my five

Growing up, the thought of heading back to school prompted conflicting emotions for Joe Wicks: excitement at being able to escape his “chaotic” home life, combined with an awareness that he would be back under the watchful eyes of teachers who found him “difficult”. By his own admission, he was disruptive and distracted in every lesson. “But the one thing I loved — and I never got kicked out of — was PE,” Wicks says. Those teachers “understood me”.

If PE with Joe — Wicks’s attempt to get the nation fit during lockdown — wasn’t homage enough to that period and his one-time dream of becoming a PE teacher, his next campaign seeks to cement it yet further. He is offering all teachers in the