Jefferson Michael King (born 1 July 1961), is a British former bodybuilder and wrestler, best known for playing Shadow in the ITV show Gladiators.

King moved to New York City as a 14-year-old where he excelled at sports, was on the school American Football team [1] and started weight training to develop his physique.

[1] King was preparing to enter into the world of professional bodybuilding, when he received a phone call from the producers of ITV's Gladiators in Birmingham offering him a place on the show.

One of the more intimidating members of the Gladiators team, he once hit his opponent so hard in the Joust event that the ends of the pugil stick were clearly damaged.

[1] After losing his job, his home in Kidderminster, and his wife and children, who moved to Essex, King relocated to London where he set up a business,[1] become a wrestler and had a cameo role in the Spice Girls movie Spiceworld in 1997.