'I'M PROUD OF MY STORY'

Joe Wicks reveals how he went from living on a council estate with an addict father to owning a multimillion pound fitness empire

- HAYLEY MINN

He’s become ‘the nation’s PE teacher’ while parents up and down the country home school their children during isolation, with Channel 4 and the BBC even fighting over Joe Wicks to host a daily workout show! But life wasn’t always like this for the 33-year-old fitness coach, who’s sold over three million bestselling healthy-eating books.

Joe – who is said to now be worth £14.3 million – previously described his upbringing to Woman as ‘hectic’. He was born to parents who never married, and grew up on a council estate in Epsom, Surrey. His roofer dad, Gary, was a heroin addict, while his mother, Raquela, was ‘on the social’.

Now Joe has opened up further about his troubled childhood.

Battling addictions