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Kim Betts
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Betts as Lightning
Gladiator name:Lightning
Hometown:Burntwood,
Staffordshire,
England
Height:1.7m
Weight:57kg
Theme Tune:Simply The Best - Tina Turner
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Kim Betts (née Williams; born December 25, 1971) is an English Gymnast, bodybuilder and TV presenter best known as Lightning in the ITV show Gladiators, where she was the longest serving female star.

Gymnastics

At six years old Betts took up gymnastics after she was accepted into Lichfield Olympic Gymnastic Club. Lightning had her first competitive event when she was eight years old. In her time as a gymnast she competed all over Great Britain as well as in Bulgaria, Belgium and Germany. Between the ages of 10 and 16 she trained with the British Squad and gained 32 medals.

Weight training

After gymnastics Betts took up weight training and competed four times in the Miss Figure Bodybuilding competition and came second in the British Championship Finals. She also won the Willenhall BB Show, Muscle Beach Open and the EFBB British Qualifier. Next came aerobics to help build up her stamina. She was a fitness instructor for eighteen months.

Gladiators

Lightning was known as one of the most tough and determined of the UK Gladiators. Known as the 'Queen of Hang Tough', she remained undefeated in the UK Arena and was only ever been beaten once, during filming of the first Ashes series in Australia. Betts gave birth to a baby boy called Lexus just three weeks before competing in the Gladiators arena for the 1999 series.

Recently

Betts used to be a TV Presenter for kids show Room 785 airing on BFBS TV which is a channel for Britain's Armed Forces around the world.

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Burntwood

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Staffordshire

Geography
Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Origin Historic
Region West Midlands
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Motto
Dieu et mon droit   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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kilogram or kilogramme (symbol: kg) is the SI base unit of mass. The kilogram is defined as being equal to the mass of the International Prototype Kilogram (IPK), which is almost exactly equal to the mass of one liter of water.
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Simply The Best can refer to:
  • The Best (song), a song by Tina Turner
  • Simply the Best (album), an album by Tina Turner
  • Simply the Best (series), an album series by Warner Music
  • Simply the Best (TV series), a game show

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Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939) is a singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress.
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December 25 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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Year 1971 (MCMLXXI
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Motto
Dieu et mon droit   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, balance, endurance, gracefulness, and kinesthetic awareness, and includes such skills as handsprings, handstands, split leaps, aerials and cartwheels.
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Female bodybuilding is the female component of competitive bodybuilding. It began in the late 1970s when women began to take part in bodybuilding competitions.

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Gladiators was a long-running game show produced by LWT for ITV in the United Kingdom from 10 October 1992 to 1 January 2000. It was an adaptation of the United States game show American Gladiators
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City of Lichfield

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Motto
Съединението прави силата   (Bulgarian)
"Suedinenieto pravi silata"
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Motto
Eendracht maakt macht   (Dutch)
L'union fait la force"   (French)
Einigkeit macht stark
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Anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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Willenhall is a small town in the West Midlands of England, with a population of approximately 40,000. It is situated between Wolverhampton and Walsall, historically in the county of Staffordshire. It lies upon the River Tame.
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Room 785 is a children's television programme broadcast on the BFBS 1 channel. It has a similar format to CBBC in that the presenters are in a small studio and introduce the programmes from there.
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The British Forces Broadcasting Service was established by the British War Office (now the Ministry of Defence) in 1943. Today it provides radio and television programmes for HM Forces, and their dependents, in Afghanistan, Belize, Bosnia, Brunei, Canada, Cyprus, the Falkland
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