SHOW FEARS
Ant and Dec thought I’m A Celeb title was ‘awful’ when they first heard it
I’M A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! hosts Ant and Dec thought the show’s title was “awful” when they first heard it.
Producers at ITV asked them to front the show in 2002 and they loved the idea — but said the name was terrible and should be changed.
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Ant, 44, said: “The producers came in, they explained, ‘So, we’re going to get these celebrities, we’re going to put them in a jungle, we’re going to make them face their fears and do trials and stuff’.
“And we were like, ‘Well, this all sounds good, a bit like Big Brother and it’s a bit like other things, and they’re putting it all together’.
“And what’s it called?’ and they said, ‘I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here!’.”
Dec, also 44, said: “We both looked at each other and we were like, ‘Well that’s awful, isn’t it?’.”
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Ant added: “What a terrible title. We were like, ‘Yeah we’ll do it, but the title will change, obviously’.
“Two years later, it hasn’t changed and it’s a huge show.”
The pair were on Radio 2’s My Life in A Mixtape where they picked songs significant to their 30-year career.
In the show, available on BBC Sounds, they picked Coldplay’s In My Place.
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Dec said: “The first series (of I’m a Celeb) wasn’t an altogether pleasurable experience.
“We were halfway through the series. We didn’t really know what we were doing.
“Coldplay had just released their second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, and this was one of the tracks on it. And in the middle of it there was a line that really summed up how we were feeling — ‘I was scared, I was scared, tired and underprepared’.”
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