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Turns out the producers of Ireland’s Fittest Family
It didn’t take long for Ross to put two and two together – his family were indeed both strong and healthy, and eejits – and soon, the Thompsons were on RTE’s
“So, I decided it might be a good idea to actually let them know what I had signed them up for,” says Ross today. “I ran it by my wife, Wendy, and the two of our four children, Dylan
And so it was that, throughout May and June, the family engaged in a number of Zoom interviews and video-based fitness assessments – comprising of five different challenges – and, lo agus behold, the
As we now all realise, having something else to occupy your mind during lockdown is something of a godsend, and Ross, Wendy and their teenage titans were more than happy to spend
When it came to the shoot itself, the Hell & Back route in nearby
A sandy dune to climb
t was back in April, with Ireland just at the 
beginning of its long and winding Covid-19 misadventure, that Ross Thompson got a curious text.
were looking for some strong and healthy Wicklow eejits to take part in the latest bouts of the highly-popular RTE series.
Thompsons made it through as the Wicklow contestants in the latest Ireland’s Fittest Family.
their summer training and preparing for the show. “It was basically our summer holidays for 2020,” says Ross, “and it brought us all together. Especially when we had to work out ways to climb over 10-foot walls around Heathervue, or push great big logs up sand dunes in Brittas Bay.”