James Crossley

James Hunter Crossley, born on 12 June 1973, is an English bodybuilder, television personality and musician. He is best known as Hunter in the ITV game show Gladiators, in which he appeared from 1993 until the final episode on 1 January 2000, and he was crowned The Ultimate Gladiator after a showdown with the other male UK Gladiators in the Battle of the Giants special. He returned to the format in a 2008 legends special on Sky. In May 2018 he broke the then world record for lifting the Dinnie Stones, with a time of 34.58 seconds. He took part in the third series of the Channel 4 reality series The Circle in 2021, and he now works as a musician and sound healer, running a gong bath teacher training school in south-west London and, since 2024, the London Handpan Academy.