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CULTURE | SPORT | CARS | FITNESS | GADGETS | HUMOUR | SEX ® sortedmag.com JULY AUGUST 2022 £6.00 HOPE AND Master and GLORY apprentice Who’ll shine at the TIM CAMPBELL Commonwealth Games? DROWNING IN JIM KERR SELF-DOUBT Alive and kicking Emma Waring JUST MARVELLOUS Will Stratton-Morris Neil Baldwin THE COFFEE CUP KING CHECK OUT SORTED’S MUST-HAVE MOTORS Martin Sheen Hungry, honest and humble MADE IN THE UK SHIRTS DESIGNED TO BE WORN UNTUCKED T H E O R I G I N A L U N T U C K E D S H I R T 80+ STORES WORLDWIDE | UNTUCKit.co.uk 1 – 3 J U LY 2 0 2 2 W Y T H E N S H A W E P A R K F R I D A Y S A T U R D A R MMAANNCCHHEESSTTEERR''SS Y E T LL AA RR GG EE SSTT S S U E N H F R E E D C A N Y A M MM UU SS II CC L A FF EE SS TT II VV AA LL V I T S E F F E S T I V A L M A N C H E S T E R . C O M 1 – 3 B E A C H KIDS ZONE J L I V E U L Y MUSIC FUN EXTREME 2 0 FAIR SPORTS BATTLE 2 2 OF BRITAIN FLY PASTS P L U S F I R E W O R K S M U C H M O R E A L L A C T I V I T I E S F R E E CONTENTS Regulars JULY/AUGUST 2022 STARTERS 21 7 Up front with Steve Legg ACTION 15 Conquering our fears by Bear Grylls Founder & CEO Steve Legg WORKPLACE [email protected] Deputy Editor Tony Yorke 28 Get good at life 47 Relationships [email protected] with Lee Jackson with Harry Benson Advertising Manager 54 Mentorng Candy O’Donovan POLITICS with Miles Protter [email protected] Art Director David Graham CULTURE 53 Remember who we serve [email protected] by Andy Flannagan Illustrator Andy Gray 20 DVD, films & opinion SPORT with Andy Godfrey Print Halcyon halcyonline.co.uk 23 First Man Standing 61 A feast of fun Distribution with Gareth Thompson The Commonwealth Games are about MFD: Global Media Hub 24 Music to start and organisers in Birmingham Newsstand: Warners with Sue Rinaldi are hoping the event will deliver high octane sporting performances from a host of top stars, be a unifying force for more than 70 competing countries and territories – and create a lasting legacy. © Sorted Magazine 2022 Sorted is published by Son Christian Media HUMOUR (SCM) Ltd. 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West Sussex, BN17 6WX, UK with Jon Cobb 82 The last word Tel: 01903 732190 ADVICE with Nathan Blackaby E-mail: [email protected] sortedmag.com 29 A brush with coaching Follow us on Twitter: with Martin Carter SortedMagazine 31 Life coach Find us on Facebook: with Peter Horne Sorted Men’s Magazine 32 Sex Therapy Watch us on YouTube: with Emma Waring Sorted Magazine 32 46 Family Download the App: with Gerrit Bantjes Sorted Magazine 4 Sorted. July/August 2022 Features RAISING THE BAR It doesn’t matter whether it’s on land, water, or in the air, David Newman makes it his business to break world records. But there’s a real twist to his story, as Sorted discovered. 46 40 SHEEN MACHINE Over the years, actor Martin Sheen has starred in a host of top films and TV series – but he hasn’t enjoyed making many of them. He tells Sorted why. 10 COVID, COFFEE AND ME Will Stratton-Morris runs Caffè Nero, the UK’s leading chain of high street coffee houses. He reveals how he’s coped with the big challenges of the last two years. 72 16 66 VOICE OF REASON NEW BOLD DREAM FLEEING THE MOB In 2005, Tim Campbell was the first- Lead singer, Jim Kerr, takes time to ever winner of The Apprentice TV series. Greg Stier’s childhood was chaotic. Born into talk about what’s next for Simple Seventeen years later, he a gangster family, he knew he needed to Minds, one of Scotland’s finest rock was back by Alan Sugar’s side – this tread a different path, one with real purpose. exports of the last 40 years. time, as one of his key aides. Then, one day, a hillbilly came to town. Sorted. July/August 2022 5 WE HAVE ALL BEEN DESIGNED FOR CONNECTION; IT IS PART OF WHO WE ARE In a post-pandemic world, we depend on connection now more than ever. But today, thousands of communities still live isolated from electricity, food and water – cut off from the outside world. INTRODUCING MY MAF COMMUNITY Through My MAF Community you can cross time-zones, scale mountains and overcome barriers to connect with an isolated people group. Create a unique and meaningful connection that could transform not one life, but an entire community. For just £10 per month, bring life to an isolated community through a unique connection made possible by MAF. Join us and receive exclusive stories, share your thoughts and prayers and celebrate what God has done. CONNECTION CREATES COMMUNITY CREATES PURPOSE CREATES COMMUNITY PURPOSE TRANSFORMATION CREATE YOURS TODAY AT MAF-UK.ORG/MYCOMMUNITY Connecting neighbours across the world Registered charity in England and Wales (1064598) and in Scotland (SC039107) ® Registered trademark 3026860, 3026908, 3026915 UP FRONT WITH STEVE LEGG Mad dogs and Englishmen... Some things never fade from the memory, particularly when they involve pranks, bucketloads of laughter – and your best friend coming a cropper. B ack in the days before our tents, listening to Blondie and speedos, and was swiftly slathered ‘O’ levels and work Bad Manners on the radio, kicking in calamine lotion. It was painful started to encroach on a football, swimming in the sea – to watch him wince as he gingerly my life, when summer and playing pranks. We invented pulled the tape from his chest to holidays seemed to ‘Axmouth Eddie’, an axe-wielding reveal, emblazoned in purest white stretch into an eternity of sand- maniac who scoured the town by on his chest – from neck to navel, filled hair and ice creams, I joined day and night. from nipple to nipple – was a huge The Boys’ Brigade. Drawn by the In a bid to ward off the evil doer, white cross. It was the perfect lure of football and the promise some masking tape was found and contrast to his crimson red skin. of joint activities with The Girls’ we all stuck a massive cross on our Without any doubt, Nigel was Brigade, I signed up. chests, and headed to the beach. going to be safe from Axmouth The summer of 1980, to me, was My mate, Nigel, proudly bearing Eddie for weeks, if not months. every bit as good as the ‘69 one his make-do crucifix, went off in But what I really remember from Canadian rocker, Bryan Adams, search of an ice cream looking like that week is the evening sessions, keeps banging on about. some scantily clad crusader on led by a vicar called Bruce. Every In July of that year, we headed pilgrimage. Whilst he was gone, night after supper we sat in a big off to BB camp. Our mums packed the group decided to head back marquee singing songs about God STEVE LEGG our suitcases with a spare pair to camp, so I picked up his bag and hearing how much He loved of pants, a toothbrush and some and took it with us to keep it safe. us. I was awestruck. It was here Steve is a British entertainer and money for ice creams (they were Unfortunately, he spent half the amongst the sunburn, the sea, and motivational speaker. very small suitcases, that being day scouring the beach, first for the camaraderie of boys, that I The author of said they still wouldn’t be allowed his mates and then his bag, before became a Christian. 17 books, Steve as Ryanair carry on), and 70 of us realising he’d gone from beached Things have never been the same launched Sorted at the Odyssey Arena, piled into the bus and headed to to deserted! again. Why? Because I, too, had a Belfast in 2007. Axmouth in Devon. 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