[PJamo]

The new Gladiators come across well in interviews which surprised me, I'm sure some like Legend and Viper will play up to their persona but with social media, they have to balance the two. Legend/Matt Morsia has his own YouTube channel with a lot of subscribers which probably will see an increase.

I think that's a very astute point - the Gladiators' 'real' personas are easily identifiable with the widespread use of social media and so they need to balance their Gladiator personality with their true personality. They generally come across as a fairly likeable group

For me that's one of the key differences between this version and the 2008 Sky version - in the 2008 version the Gladiators were, to a large extent, assigned personalities and told to play up to it, which often came across quite poorly (IMO) on screen. There's a couple of GladPod interviews where this is touched upon - Michael Van Wijk (Wolf) talks about being given lines to say when he appeared on the Legends shows and as Gladiator Manager in season 2.

One (or two) 'heels' (a la Wolf in the original series - and even then we got to see him being sweet at times with Ulrika and the audience) is fine, not more than half the Gladiators cast.