The Chase’s Mark Labbett confirms he will do I’m A Celeb – but worries he will EAT his campmates
The Chase star Mark Labbett is keen to appear on I’m A Celebrity but jokes he would have to eat his castmates.
Mark, 54, who was nicknamed The Beast made light of his size and said he could be ITV show’s first cannibal.
The 23st and 6ft 6in smart guy told: “I’m going to do it, it’s just a question of when. I am not joking you guys, cannibalism may be on the cards.
“I would be that hungry and some minuscule pipsqueak mucks up the food challenge and says, ‘Oh it doesn’t matter, we’ll go without for a day’, and I will be looking at them going, ‘Oh, there’s a couple of steaks on that’.
"My father was a butcher, so I know how to prepare a joint.”
He added: "I think the boredom would drive me mad in the jungle."
Even though he would go out to the jungle, Mark would prefer to do BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing.
But doing the ballroom dancing competition would all depend on whether producers could find him a tall enough dancing partner.
The dad-of-one said: “I’d like to get on Strictly because I know that, like Russell Grant, I’d probably lose half a stone a week, plus the fitness would be a bonus.
"But I’ve been told by one of the choreographers, ‘Mark, we haven’t got a female who is even close to your height, it would look ridiculous’.”
Mark who is married to wife Katie, 27, recently gave behind-the-scenes peek into the popular game show by revealing that Chasers aren't allowed to make cash offers and the bosses tell them what to say.
During the ITV quiz show, contestants have to build cash before choosing one of three offers - a high, a low, or the amount they built.
Mark told a fan that the other two options aren't up to them.
The fan asked: "do you make offers based on how the contestant does in the cash builder or are the offers already set out?"
The Beast replied: "No idea, we get handed them on a sheet of paper. Not our money :) #BeatTheChasers"
Beat The Chasers is a spin-off the super-popular quiz show hosted at 9pm, which sees contestants face off against all five Chasers.
Hosted by Bradley Walsh, viewers get to see contestants and Chasers go head to head.
In the Cash Builder round, the contestants face five multiple-choice questions and have the chance to bank up to £5,000, but if they get the first question wrong - they're out.
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The contestants are then given the option of playing against two, three, four or all five Chasers.
The higher the number of Chasers they go against, the more money is up for grabs.
If a contestant gets a question wrong the clock counts down until a question is answered correctly.
The Chasers are Mark, Shaun 'The Dark Destroyer' Wallace, Anne 'The Governess' Hegerty, Paul 'The Sinnerman' Sinha and Jenny 'The Vixen' Ryan.
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