WITNESS THE FITNESS

11 March 2007

It's not just us mere mortals who get excited about meeting celebrities, you know. The celebrity students went crazy when boxer Amir Khan turned up at the Academy this morning.

The Olympic silver-medallist joined the celebrity students in their daily fitness class and put them through their punching paces.

With their warm-up workout over, Kevin broke the good news: "I think you need some help, so I've got one of my friends in," he told them. "This person is an Olympic silver-medallist..."

"Oh. My. God!" the students gasped in unison, before Colin yelped with excitement: "Amir Khan! Amazing!"

Amir walked in to the dance studio to cheers, clapping and general giddiness. "It's so funny, they're so moody for me!" Kevin joked.

Amir then got down to giving the students some proper boxing training. After a bit of skipping it was time for them to pair up with gloves and pads for some sparring. Kevin donned some pads and Amir jabbed away, and he wasn't messing around either. He hit one of the pads so hard it flew off leaving Kevin just a tad shocked – blimey!

Boxing training over, the celebrity students were able to put some questions to Amir. And while the boys asked serious questions like 'Are you opening a gym for youngsters?', Tara had other things on her mind. "Are you married!" she suddenly blurted out. Good old Tara.

But the real icing on their cake was getting Amir to sign their boxing gloves for them. "Wow!" Angellica grinned. "I wanna stay with you all day..."

Ahh, let's hope the rest of the day is as good.