Ireland’s Fittest Family is back for its 12th season on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player on Saturday, January 4. Coaches Davy Fitzgerald, Anna Geary,Donncha O’Callaghan and Sonia O’Sullivan are back and looking to bring home the title this year.
Camogie star Anna Geary is back on the show and will go head-to-head with fellow Cork sporting legends Sonia and Donncha, as well as Clare hurling legend Davy. Olympian Sonia will be sprinting back into action for her second season, bringing her world-class experience and determination.
Presented by Laura Fox, the upcoming series of Ireland’s Fittest Family features brand new challenges including ‘The Drop Zone,’ and ‘Raft Rage’. 16 Families from all over Ireland will be put to the test with rugged courses and obstacle races.
Season 12, Episode 1
Donncha’s Parson family from Dublin, Davy’s O’Connell family from Waterford, Anna’s Magner family from Cork, and Sonia’s O’Neill family from Meath take on The Lake, all battling it out for two places in the next round of the competition at The Bog.
The families must each take on a brand-new event, The Drop Zone. This is a race to fill a giant water tank. This will drop a family member suspended high above the water into the lake, so they can climb a rope and ring the bell and stop the clock!
The next test is Slingshot. Strapped to a bungee with two levels of resistance, family members must get as many balls as possible from one side of the bog bath to the other and into a bucket.
With the scores of the first two events are combined, the winning family goes through to the next round, and the family at the bottom are sent home. Then the other two face Ireland’s Fittest Family’s Water Eliminator.
Ireland’s Fittest Family is returning to the beautiful Rathbeggan Lakes in County Meath to film this year’s Heats.
The Quarter Finals are in Hell & Back in Kilruddery, Co. Wicklow
The Semi-Finals will see the families take on the first ever Forest challenges.
This year’s Grand Final will be held in and around Dublin Port and it’s old Flour Mill, with epic events designed push the finalist families to their limits.
