Joe Wicks: A Life Through Food
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
When Joe Wicks, the personal trainer, started making Instagram videos in his kitchen in 2014, he couldn't have imagined he'd become author of the second biggest selling UK cookbook of all time. Today he is a phenomenon. He's built a social media brand with millions of followers, nay disciples, on Instagram and YouTube who come for the quick healthy recipes and online fitness workouts.
Yet, Joe tells Sheila Dillon, somewhat modestly, "I'm not really great at cooking..."
In this programme Sheila visits Joe at home in London to find out what drives his ambition and enduring popularity. They talk cooking, parenthood, and how his own fame has affected his whole family.
Presented by Sheila Dillon. Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury.
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| 0:37.0 | Joe, why don't you introduce yourself to start with? |
| 0:42.0 | What next time, how I am what I do. |
| 0:44.0 | Well, yes. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Joe Wick's the body coach, |
| 0:48.0 | known for my leaning 15 healthy recipes and cookbooks |
| 0:52.0 | and also my YouTube channel which is a body coach TV where I share fitness |
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| 0:59.0 | the place for hungry minds and that was an introduction for someone who really doesn't need one |
| 1:04.4 | certainly not if you're one of his 2.8 million Instagram followers. |
| 1:09.8 | Chop up from sweet potato and butternut squash. Roast it in the oven. |
| 1:13.0 | Welcome back to the body coach TV |
| 1:15.0 | and welcome to another 20 minute home workout. |
| 1:17.0 | Joe Wicks, the body coach. |
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