JJ Chalmers
Reasons To Be Joyful with Gaby Roslin
Spiritland Productions
4.7 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
JJ Chalmers (former Royal Marines Commando and Invictus Games Medalist) joins Gaby for a natter about all things joy!
They chat about JJ's incredible career and life - and the amazing things he has achieved. Both Gaby and JJ share a love of TV - and presenting in particular - so enjoy a good ole natter about that, and of course The Invictus Games.
JJ also reveals his Show n Tell item (an object that brings him joy and makes him smile) which Gaby loved so much, she had to try it for herself! Listen to find out what it is...
...and if you want to see JJ showing it off to Gaby, head over to our YouTube channel, where you can watch all of our episodes!
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| 0:00.0 | You could make things complicated, searching every website, double-checking every Best Buy table, even scouring the newspapers. |
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| 0:27.8 | annually. Rate correct as of 13th May 26. JJ, do you know I looked up what your real name was because |
| 0:32.5 | I only think of you as JJ? And what is it? |
| 0:38.4 | John. |
| 0:39.8 | John James. |
| 0:40.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.7 | My dad's John's John. |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.6 | So I'm kind of a John Jr. |
| 0:44.2 | Really. |
| 0:45.5 | So you're JJJ? |
| 0:46.2 | Yeah. But I'm John James, but I've never been called that. |
| 0:50.5 | Except when you were little. |
| 0:51.7 | When I was little. |
| 0:52.6 | Yeah, no, I became JJ really quickly. But John James when I was in trouble. That's the only time I ever hear. And I still... If anyone, you know, for a receptionist says, is it John James? I still get this like shudder of my mum saying it really sternly. But it's... I was always JJ and then I always thought a day would come that would have to be John |
| 1:12.4 | or John James or something like that but a couple of things happened one there was a teacher at my |
| 1:16.0 | school who went by JJ as in with the other teacher oh how funny so I was like oh maybe maybe |
| 1:20.9 | maybe a grown up can be called that and then I joined the Marines and everybody gets a nickname in |
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