Caroline Pearce (born 1 September 1981) is an English former athlete, and TV presenter for

BT Sport TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport) is a group of pay television sports channels in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe, Warner Bros. Discovery and BT Group, they first launched as B ...

's UFC: Beyond The Octagon and reporter for Fox Sports and UFC Fight Pass. She played the character Ice in

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's version of Gladiators.

Biography

Athletics career

Pearce competed for England in the World

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Championships at the age of 15. Pearce became the British heptathlon champion after winning the British

AAA Championships The AAA Championships was an annual track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association of England. It was the foremost domestic athletics event in the United Kingdom during its lifetime, despite the existence of the offi ...

title at the 2002 AAA Championships and 2004 AAA Championships. Pearce competed in the 2004 European Cup heptathlon finals and represented Great Britain as a bobsledder in the 2005 World Bobsleigh Championships.

TV career

In 2008, Pearce was chosen to compete as a gladiator in

's relaunch of the TV series '' Gladiators'' under the gladiator name "Ice", but she left the show after the first season. Pearce has also appeared on ''

The Friday Night Project ''The Sunday Night Project'' is a British comedy-variety show by Princess Productions that first aired on Channel 4 in February 2005 under the title ''The Friday Night Project''. Originally broadcast on Friday nights, the show moved to Sunday n ...

'' as the "Coat of Cash wearing Celebrity". She is currently signed to

MVE Management MVE Management (formerly known as Margravine Management) is a talent management company founded in 2018 by Joe Sugg and Caspar Lee in partnership with IMG. The company was originally headquartered in London, England, and expanded to the United ...

. In 2013, Pearce joined BT Sport (now named

TNT Sports TNT Sports is the brand name for sports television channels, broadcast divisions, programming, and other media around the world that are owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). The name originates from the American cable television ...

) where she is a reporter and presenter for boxing and UFC. She reported at Fury v Wilder 1, Fury v Wilder 3, Canelo v GGG, and presents ‘UFC: Beyond The Octagon'.

Personal life

Pearce earned a first class honours degree in Sports Science and a master's degree in Physiology and Nutrition from

Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public university, public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university sinc ...

. She has modelled in advertisements for

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Adidas Adidas AG (; stylized in all lowercase since 1949) is a German athletic apparel and footwear corporation headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany. It is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe, and the second largest in the ...

, Ron Hill and Fitness-Mad and shot with photographer Rankin. She is a published author of 'Better Body Workouts for Women' with publishers Human Kinetics and a master trainer and spokesperson for Power Plate training equipment.

References

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