BBC News, Glastonbury Festival
Joe Wicks returned to Glastonbury Festival to lead a live workout for the third year running, describing it as “one of the best workouts of my life”.
Thousands of people exercised alongside the fitness influencer at The Gateway stage on Thursday.
“To see all those faces and the energy, this is what I live for,” Wicks told BBC Radio Somerset.
Wicks, who is also known as The Body Coach, became a household name during the pandemic when he livestreamed PE lessons to hundreds of thousands of people each morning.
Wicks, who has four young children with his wife Rosie, now has a following of close to five million people who watch the family’s lives on Instagram.
When asked if he had brought his children to Worthy Farm, Wicks replied: “Absolutely not.”
“I love them to death but I need a break, so we’ve spread them out among all our family because no-one’s mad enough to have all four,” he added.
“I think parents with kids (at Glastonbury) look so cool, but come eight o’clock at night when they get all grouchy, I want to go out dancing.”
Wicks said he enjoyed hosting live workouts at the farm as it brought “a bit of energy” to the festival, especially when people “have had a late night”.
He said he believes many people are now more health conscious and said the festival had “much more to offer” than drinking alcohol and eating food.
“More people are running 5ks at the festival and there are places like the Healing Fields where you can meditate, take part in breathwork sessions and have a go at yoga, it’s like a holiday,” he added.
Wicks has hosted workouts at festivals around the world but said Glastonbury had an energy “like no other”.
He added: “It’s such a happy, energising place, the energy just can’t be replicated anywhere else. It’s wicked.”