Oluwatobiloba Oladapo I. A. Olusegun Olubi was born on 24 September 1987 in a council estate in
Camberwell and attended
Bacon's College,
Saint Francis Xavier College, and
Brunel University London, where he read economics and politics. He was initially a sprinter, but did not progress further than county level, and took up bobsledding after being invited for trials In 2014, Olubi made a formal complaint against Johnston for telling him that "black drivers do not make good bobsleigh drivers" shortly after he began training. Much of Olubi's salary was paid by
UK Sport and the
National Lottery and by a post as a secondary school supply teacher. In 2016, after finding that his salary wasn't enough for him to train five days a week, he applied for various British game shows. He also appeared on
''Can't Touch This'', a game show in which contestants are shot out of a catapult and navigate an assault course; he told
PA Media in 2018 that he had been "shot out of a cannon" on the programme, and described himself as a "
human cannonball". Olubi attempted to contest the
2014 Winter Olympics, but had to pull out after suffering a serious injury, and the
Discovery+ dating show
Written in the Stars. In May 2023, he was named "Phantom", as one of the new Gladiators in the
television series of the same name, which began broadcasting on
BBC One from January 2024 and was watched by six million viewers. ==References==