ENTRIES are coming in for Fit Idol 2008, but we need more!

We are looking for eight 'couch potatoes’ willing to ditch their lazy lifestyles and take on the ultimate fitness challenge.

You could win the Fit Idol title, plus free gym membership and a hotel break for two.

Last year’s Fit Idol champion is urging people to follow his lead and sign up for this year’s challenge.

“It changed my life for the better,“ said Darren Wood, manager of the Evenhill restaurant and hotel in Littlebourne.

We are looking for four men and four women whose idea of exercise is getting a beer out of the fridge.

They must be willing to spend eight weeks improving their fitness levels, with the help of Active Life fitness experts Fran Pike and Dave Marks.

For the length of the competition, they will be given free passes to their nearest Active Life gym and once a week their fitness and improvement will be monitored in a compulsory session at Active Life’s Kingsmead gym in Canterbury.

Readers will be able to chart their progress each week on this website and in the Kentish Gazette, Whitstable Gazette, herne Bay Gazette and Faversham News.

The contest will be judged on who has made the most progress, so everyone stands an equal chance of winning.

Our Fit idol champion will receive a year’s five star gym membership, worth £420, at Active Life’s sports centres at Kingsmead, Whitstable Swimming Pool and The Pier, Herne Bay.

They will also win six months’ personal training worth £150 and a meal and night for two at the Hotel Continental in Whitstable, worth £135.

The runner up will receive six months’ Active Life gym membership and all eight contestants will be treated to a celebration meal at the end of the competition.

* To be in with a chance of winning write to Fit Idol, 9 St George’s Place, Canterbury, CT1 1UU, by Monday, May 19.

Please include your daytime and evening phone number, name and address, plus a short letter explaining your lifestyle and what you want to get fit.