The Crush: Jane Fonda

Bounce, bounce, bounce… aaaand jumping jacks!’ Crush has got its mauve legwarmers and canary-yellow leotard on to celebrate the woman behind the world’s biggest-selling home workout ever.

Yes, Jane Fonda is officially back, and bringing the 1980s with her. The 77-year-old GILF is releasing her entire back catalogue of workouts, previously gathering dust on video cassettes (remember them?), as DVDs and digital downloads, meaning we get to appreciate Fonda’s Lycra-clad, slightly sexual prancing to a soundtrack of smooth jazz all over again. Hurrah!

For those who weren’t forced to watch their mother doing balletic squats in the living room every Sunday afternoon, and do not yet appreciate La Fonda, know this: the actress turned activist turned professional exerciser sold a record 17 million copies of Jane Fonda’s Workout in 1982 (take that, Davina), telling the housewives of the world to ‘Feel the burn’.

Earlier this month Ellen DeGeneres secretly filmed her wife Portia feeling the burn for herself and posted the clip online (60,000 views and counting), proving that Jane’s jaunty moves make even the most glamorous look decidedly silly. Amid all January’s gym joylessness, Crush would like to publicly thank Ms Fonda for putting the fun back into fitness. Sweatbands optional.