DS Icon: Mr Motivator

There's a lot of talk these days about the UK population becoming a nation of fatties. Victims of fast food and a lazy lifestyle, there's more wobbly bits on us than ever before. DS believes that we can attribute our slide into a country of chubbies to one definitive factor - the disappearance from our TV screens of Derrick Errol Evans. You probably know him better as Mr Motivator.

Motivator was introduced to our screens in the '90s and thanks to his range of high energy routines, cheeky catchphrases ("Get wicked!" "Everybody say huh!") and trademark 'zany' leotards, there were very few people who didn't find themselves transfixed by his fitness methods. While in recent years his celebrity stock may have fallen slightly, he's still knocking out DVDs at an alarming rate and at the start of last year, he returned to GMTV to save us all from early heart attacks. "If you walk along any high street, you'll see bigger backsides than ever," he warned. Thankfully, with Derrick back on the beat, we shouldn't have to worry if our bums look big anymore.

Click along our gallery below to see snaps of Evans in his pomp.