JOE Wicks has added almost one million followers to his YouTube channel after the success of his free PE lessons amid the coronavirus lockdown.
The popular fitness guru has become the nation’s new Mr Motivator as parents homeschooling kids and teachers tutoring the children of key workers in classrooms tune into his live YouTube videos. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates At the end of February his channel had a healthy 823,000 followers and was picking up new subscribers at the rate of around 5,000-a-week.
A week ago, his subscribers numbered 839,000. But since he added his first 9am work-out session on Monday his fans have jumped to a whopping 1,710,708 million.