The line-up for this year’s ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!’ has been revealed. And as usual, the TV-series contains a rather odd collection of B-Z stars and torpid ‘has-beens’.
This year viewers will get to see the following 12 contestants battle it out in the jungle along with cockroaches, venomous snakes and other unpleasant creepy-crawlies:
Happy Monday’s foulmouthed frontman Shaun Ryder
68 year-old Swedish Bond babe Britt Ekland
Ex-Lib Dem MP, Lembit Opik
2009’s third place X Factor contestant Stacey Solomon
Fast-running ex-British athlete Linford Christie
Former Playboy model Kayla Collins
Actor Nigel Havers – best known as ‘male escort’ Lewis Archer in Coronation Street
Presenter and Big Brother 3 contestant Alison Hammond
You Are What You Eat Gillian McKeith – yeah, remember that when you tuck into the grub worms Gillian
Trigger Happy funnyman and journalist Dom Joly
Paul ‘Gazza’ Gascoigne’s ex-wife Sheryl Gascoigne, and mum to reality-star Bianca Gascoigne
Rapper Aggro Santos, who got to No.5 on the UK charts with single Candy
For some of the contestants the word ‘celebrity’ might barely apply just yet, however the show should soon give their careers a well-needed boost.
And after last year’s show, which turned into yet another Katie Price reality-circus, ITV bosses have had a new strategy when creating this year’s line-up.
An ITV source told the Sun: “We got our fingers burnt last year getting Katie in. She hogged the limelight and viewers got fed up with it. Now we’re going back to basics with great celebs and all the jungle nastiness viewers love.”
They are also promising a more stomach turning bushtucker menu than ever before.
What do you think? Are you excited about this year’s show, and are the chosen celebs worthy ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!’ contestants?
– Inger Smith