I’m A Celebrity…Extra Camp host Joel Dommett – five facts you DIDN’T know about the presenter
JOEL Dommett charmed viewers as a relative unknown on I'm A Celebrity in 2016.
Now he is back on our TV screens for Extra Camp in 2019. Here are five quick facts about the funnyman...
1. He's achieved his teenage dream of dating a Page 3 girl
Well - not exactly but those are his words. The funnyman was thrilled to see his now-wife Hannah Cooper feature on the famous third page of The Sun newspaper in September 2019.
And he couldn't let the moment go by without acknowledging it.
He wrote: "My teenage dream has come true. I’m now dating a page 3 girl. I’m gonna go knock one out over it even though she is sat in the other room."
And the happy couple tied the knot on September 10, 2019.
2. He was a ladies man in the jungle
Joel went into I'm A Celeb 2016 as a single man, and immediately entered into a flirty rapport with glamorous former Countdown boffin Carol Vorderman.
At the time, the potential match even received the backing of Joel's ex.
Joel got a little hot under the collar when he overhead a conversation Carol was having about buying nipple tassels.
The bearded chappy also made a big impression when called upon to do his first Bushtucker Trial, conquering his fear of heights to scale a 100 ft crane and bring the maximum 10 stars back to camp.
He proved himself to be a team player and an all-round nice guy - particularly when he gave up his phone call from home so that other camp mates could have longer to talk to their loved ones.
Eventually Joel came second to Gogglebox's Scarlett Moffat, with Emmerdale's Adam Thomas coming third.
3. He was catfished
Joel was victim to a catfishing scam and has had a sex tape leaked online.
After a break up he thought he’d try internet dating and when a woman started messaging him on Twitter things got a little heated.
After a while she asked him whether he'd like to have Skype sex.
He told: “I thought for a second, then immediately typed… ‘Why not?!’.”
He said the woman then told him her microphone had broken, so she wouldn’t be able to speak to him.
He then added: “I messaged her afterwards. No reply. I messaged her the next day. No reply. I messaged her a week later. No reply. So it turns out I wasn’t having Skype sex at all, instead someone was basically watching me watching porn. Like a perverted Gogglebox.”
4. He began his career in other TV shows
Best-known for his role as D.C. Sweeny in Skins, Joel has made other appearances on TV too.
A member of The National Youth Theatre, he was in BBC's Popatron and Impractical Jokers UK, as well as the romantic period movie The Edge Of Love.
He also hosted Live In Chelsea, a live discussion show about Made in Chelsea.
In October 2015, Dommett became a panellist for Nicole Scherzinger's team on Sky 1's music/comedy contest Bring The Noise.
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5. But he's actually a stand-up comedian by trade
Despite being being known for his TV roles, he started his career as a comic.
His first ever stand up gig was at a bar in LA aged 19.
Since then he's performed all over the world, from Reykjavik to The Netherlands.