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    From fame to freedom!

    Nov 22, 2020 3 minutes
    Words: Brigid Auchettl.

    He was known around Australia as “Commando”, a member of the muscly cast of the ’90s sports game show Gladiators, but life today for Geoff Barker is very different.

    After spiralling into depression and alcoholism, Geoff swapped his spandex tights for a simpler life. In 2008 he left behind the trappings of fame to up sticks with his wife Bessie Bardot and daughter Bluebelle, now 11, and travel the world in a camper van.

    TV DREAM

    The 52-year-old. Plucked from obscurity, he’d beaten 10,000 other hopefuls who tried their luck to be cast as one of the 19 stars of the show.

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