She's 21 years old, weighs in at a mere 68 kilos and can kick your butt in two seconds flat. Meet Jessica Davey, former kickboxing champion for Malta and one of the top contentders in this week's Gladiators fight night.

It's not the kind of discipline you associate with petite, pretty red-heads. Kickboxing, I would have thought, is a sport mostly practiced by big hulks, the kind who don't mind being round-housed kicked and maybe losing a couple of teeth in the process.

Evidently I thought wrong. Jessica Davey is petite, graceful and looks like she wouldn't say boo to the proverbial goose. Even here I'm wrong, of course. Jessica is a brown belt kickboxing pro and has been practicing the discipline for the past seven odd years.

Read more in today's issue of The TV Guide, out with The Times.

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