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IRELAND’S FITTEST FAMILY

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Series 9, Episode 7

It’s THE SWAMP and it’s the SEMI FINAL 

In this episode we’ll have not one, but two eliminators. It’s all to play for, and there’s only four spots in next week’s final. 

The semi final is separated into two heats, with three families pitted against each other in a time trial. The winning family of each heat will make it through to the final, while the two losing families go head to head in an eliminator. It’s going to be an exciting day in the swamp!

Series Information

Presenter Mairead Ronan is back on the hunt to find the nation’s Fittest Family, with coaches Davy Fitzgerald, Anna Geary, Donncha O’Callaghan and Derval O’ Rourke all ready to push the families to their limits and over the finish line for the coveted title and 15,000 Euro

Our coaches are as competitive as ever, and are ready to train the fittest families in the country as they take on the toughest and most grueling physical challenges imaginable. With Davy Fitz feeling smug after last year’s victory, the other three coaches working hard to prevent him winning ‘two in a row’. Having crashed out of the competition early last year, Anna Geary will do whatever it takes to win this year, but Derval and Donncha are not in the mood to let that happen. It’s game on from the start line for coaches and their families! 

Like last year, this year’s series of Ireland’s Fittest Family will be filmed in our hub at Hell & Back in Kilruddery, Co Wicklow. At the foothills of the Wicklow mountains, with muddy swamps, lakes and forests, this is the perfect location to put our families through their paces. 

As the coaches and their families battle for the title, as always on Ireland’s Fittest Family, it’s all about the events, which will be tougher and more intense than ever before. Sole Survivor is back and will see our families balancing up high to stay in the game. Last season’s favourite Back Against The Wall is also back, with the families feeling the burn again this year. 

Hanging Tough and Pontoons of Pain are also back and our families will be hoping to splash their way to victory at ‘The Lake’. But all eyes will be on our new events as Slingshot and High Nelly as they make their debut, and the families will be dragged through muck and have to pedal their way to victory. 

Our dreaded eliminators are tougher and more intense, and emotions run high, as the families, and their coaches, do everything they can to reach the summit on ‘The Mountain’ and be crowned Ireland’s Fittest Family! 

Heats one to four takes place in ‘The Forest’ where four families in each episode battle it out for two places in the quarter-finals. Then it’s on to ‘The Lake’ for two episodes, when the remaining 8 sink or swim their way to the semi- finals. Next up. the semi-final takes place in ‘The Swamp’ where the six families remaining desperately try to nab one of four places in the Grand Final, on ‘The Mountain’