Former MP Ed Balls has made a rather entertaining revelation: that he was asked to appear in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here, but turned it down.
He told The Telegraph: “There was great excitement in our house, or horror, when an offer came in from I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!.”
But living with critters in The Outback wasn’t his idea of fun at all.
“I wrote back to say that I’d already subjected myself to one high-profile public vote this year, and I wasn’t really sure that I wanted a second one.”
“At least having to eat bugs and crickets wasn’t part of the election process. I’m not tough enough for that.”
What a pity, we’d have relished seeing Mr Balls tackling those bushtucker trials.
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