I’m A Celebrity newbie Danny Baker reveals that ‘toilet humour’ will rile him up
I’M A Celebrity’s Danny Baker has revealed that “toilet humour” will be his main bugbear when he enters the Jungle.
The veteran broadcaster, 59, will be joining the current campmates and will likely cause a bit of mischief in the (currently) serene camp.
While he admitted that he wants to be the “entertaining” one in camp, he admitted that he won’t be looking forward to other campmates’ crude behaviour.
He said: “I hate it when people talk about going to the toilet. I find it toe-curlingly juvenile. I am pretty intolerant of that childish babble.”
Danny also revealed that he decided to do the show because he is thinking about moving to America and wants to do one final British TV show.
He said: “I have been doing telly now for 40 years, I am 60 next year and I’ve got no ambition
leg to be on telly anymore.
“Next Summer, I am even thinking about living in America. So when this came around, rather than
disappearing quietly, I thought ‘why not do one last big television programme?’ and why wouldn’t
you do this show, it’s great.”
He also admitted that he thinks he will be “good for morale” but that he hasn’t prepared for being on the show.
Danny said: “It would be foolhardy to think there is something you can do. If you prepare for blue, they will give you red!
“And the shocking thing is I don’t have any phobias! Being buried underground with cockroaches falling over you is not something that crosses your mind or you have experience of! I am just going to let it happen like a hurricane.”
The veteran broadcaster, who is married and has three children, admitted that he hadn’t told his colleagues or friends that he’d be entering the jungle.
“The fun is not telling anyone. I haven’t told anybody, but I don’t know how they are going to react when they realise I am not around. I have got several big projects on and it’s not going to be helpful I am disappearing!”
He also revealed that he was very keen about doing a Bushtucker Trial: “That would be the greatest trial of all if you don’t get picked. For the sake of pure boredom, you should embrace them.”
Danny claimed that he is “not going to be competitive” and has “no conceptions or misconceptions to dispel either. People might squint at the television and go ‘oh didn’t he sell soap powder in the 90s?'”.
He added: “If I am the first out, well the upside is I get a flute of champagne”.
Danny Baker fact file
Age: 59
Date of birth: 22nd June 1957
Phobias: None but nobody can say how they will be if you are buried underground with cockroaches falling all over you!
Missing any special occasion: I am running away from several large projects – writing the next series of Cradle to Grave, my third book, writing my tour and another project for the BBC
Biggest misconception you want to dispel in the Jungle: You would have to have an ego even larger than mine to think people had any concepQons about you in the first place
Role in the camp: Master of all trades and entertainer. I’ve got an exhaustive list of showbiz anecdotes
Miss most: Nothing!
Dream camper: Jennifer Aniston
Relationship status: Married
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