New Coaches, New Families and New Challenges Set for Ireland’s Fittest Family

New Coaches, New Families and New Challenges Set for Ireland’s Fittest Family

Re-vamped series hosted by Laura Fox returns on 2 November to RTÉ

Watch promo here.

Alan Tyler, RTÉ Group Head of Entertainment and Music, said:  ”Now in its 13th series, Ireland’s Fittest Family is back with its most competitive offering to date – and that’s just with the callibre of coaches on-board! The show is a firm Sunday evening family favourite, and it’s great to welcome some brand-new coaches to join our much loved veterans, along with some hugely challenging new tasks. All told, it promises to be the toughest contest yet for our competing families, every one of whom will be running, jumping, hanging, climbing, and crawling their way towards the finish line in a bid to be crowned Ireland’s Fittest Family.”

Kicking off week 1 are Anna and Michael Darragh – each with two families. Anna’s McClements family from Down and Carr family from Westmeath take on Michael Darragh’s Walsh’s from Cork and Byrne’s from Dublin.

In Box to the Top, the sporty families start off in the ice-cold sea and embark on a head-to-head race along an army training ground, carrying kit bags and sandbags along the way. The competing families then must face Truck Pull – attempting to pull a 7.5 tonne army vehicle along a decommissioned runway.

The four families are battling it out for one of three places in the next round of Ireland’s Fittest Family. At the end of episode 1, when the scores of the first two events are combined, the two highest-scoring go through to the next round, and the two families at the bottom have to face off in the Army Eliminator.

Ireland’s Fittest Family is produced for RTÉ by Kite and Animo.

Ireland’s Fittest Family is proudly sponsored by Londis.

Watch Ireland’s Fittest Family from Sunday, 2 November, 6.30pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player.

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