Gladiators' Giant warns children are being offered steroids at 16 as social media fuels teenage epidemic

Jamie Bigg, the Gladiators star known as Giant, has warned that boys as young as 16 are being offered anabolic steroids at the gym, with TikTok 'shortcuts' driving a teenage epidemic. The 40-year-old firefighter and former bodybuilder revealed ten years of steroid use left him with zero sperm count before a three-month fertility protocol restored it. Bigg urged parents to have open, honest conversations rather than searching bedrooms or confronting gyms.

Bigg says social media is the engine: teens chase 'likes and admiration' and see no risk because influencers hide the consequences.

His own sperm count hit zero at 40 — confirmed as 100% down to steroid use — before recovering after medical intervention.

'Kids are going in the gym, 16, 17 years old, and being offered it,' Bigg warned, calling for parents to talk, not judge.