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Host Mairead Ronan returns alongside coaches Davy Fitzgerald, Anna Geary, Derval O'Rourke and Donncha OCallaghan as toughest families in the country take on the most gruelling and physical challenges imaginable.
Episode two sees Derval O’Rourke’s Mileys from Kildare up against Donncha O’Callaghan’s Allens from Tipperary, Anna Geary’s O’Neills from Meath and Davy Fitzgerald’s Codys from Kilkenny.
Episode 3 sees the 3rd of 4 heats tonight in the FOREST with the Doyles from Derry, the McDonagh’s from Mayo, the Donnellys from Longford and the Cullens from Wexford go head to head for 2 places in the quarter-finals.
The fourth and final heat sees four fit families - the Brackens from Meath, the Kellys from Antrim, the Clare and the Kulczynskis also from Clare - face the bog bath, wherein they must cling upside-down to a log above mud for the longest total time; and that's just to start.
Episode 5 of series 8 is the first of the quarter finals where we have moved out of the FOREST and into the next phase of the competition - THE LAKE.
The second of this year’s quarter finals in 'the Lake'. Four more families battle it out for three places in the semi-final in 'the Swamp'.
After battling through The Forest and The Lake, six families have reached the semi-final at The Swamp, as they compete to be one of four families in the final on The Mountain.
The final four families compete for the title, with the Mahoneys, the Allens, the Mileys, and the Cullens taking part in a series of challenges over two days
The Fittest Family coaches look back over 8 years of Ireland's Fittest Family, and reminisce about their greatest victories and most crushing losses.
