Gladiators fans will recognize Ace, also known off-screen as Warren Furman, as the show’s popular former bodybuilder. However, he has made substantial career changes since then.

Warren, now 51, appeared on the renowned game show from 1996 to 2000 and was previously engaged to beauty queen Katie Price.

Despite the fact that Gladiators returns to the BBC on Saturday, Warren’s current life is a far cry from his 90s reputation, as he is about to become a vicar.

The former construction manager has revealed that he and his wife Dionne, a former Virgin Airways hostess, will be ordained as Church of England clerics at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral.

Warren revealed his desire to find the ‘essential’ aspect that had been lacking from his life by joining the Church of England.

‘I’m now fighting the good fight and I’ve become a Gladiator for God,’ he told The Sun.

Warren stated that as a Gladiator, he ‘lived life to excess,’ but that his ‘heart was rather hardened’ as a result.

He claimed that popularity isn’t a ‘bad thing in itself,’ but he was ‘just some bloke that [had] pumped himself up for a TV show, and the TV show had ended,’ according to the tabloid.

Warren claimed that joining the Church of England had filled a ‘important’ void in his life.

Warren has been open about his prior battles with steroids and alcohol misuse, as well as his relationship with Katie, while appearing on Gladiators.

Warren dated the glamor model in the late 1990s and was engaged for two years after proposing in 1997, but the relationship ended after Warren accused her of cheating on Michael Schumacher’s brother Ralf, also a Formula One racer.