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Two new celebrities go into the jungle.

Two new celebrities have entered the jungle and they are Timmy Mallett and David Van Day.

Name: Timmy Mallett
Age: 53
Occupation: Television Presenter
Celebrity supporters:
Phobias: None
Special skills: Cooking
 
“I get incredibly crabby.”
 
Madcap TV presenter Timmy Mallett says his biggest fear about going into the jungle is that he will be permanently grumpy because of his addiction to chocolate biscuits.
 
Timmy has also revealed he has been monitoring the planets before his trip – because if there is a full moon while he’s in the jungle it will send him crazy.
 
He says: “I’m a man who likes his chocolate biscuits and when I get hungry I get hungry NOW.  There’s no slow build up.  I go from being a bit peckish to starving in seconds.
 
“I get incredibly crabby.  I’m extremely, extremely crabby when I’m hungry.  The family know it and go, ‘There he goes again, crabby old git’.  So I’ll miss my chocolate biscuits.
 
“The very good news is that we don’t have a full moon while we are away.  Everyone always goes nuts on a full moon.  The first thing I did was check when the full moons were.  It’s a number one rule.
 
“It’s really, really noticeable that at a full moon and new moon people’s behaviour changes.  Especially a full moon - about three or four days beforehand people go absolutely barking mad.  I’m certainly affected by it, if I ever have an argument with somebody it will be at the full moon.
 
“Anyway, the show starts after the full moon.  So that’s good.  I’m really aware of it, not the planets but the cycles and such like of the moon and nature, it’s just one of those things.  I don’t dwell on it but I’m just aware of it.  I run around with masses of energy and I speak before I think.”
 
The TV presenter is also worried about causing a blaze in the jungle if left in charge of the camp fire, after almost torching his house while having a bonfire.
 
He says: “I like bonfires.  The fire brigade came to my house last month because I set fire to one of the trees by mistake while having a garden bonfire and they turned up and said, ‘We might have known it would be you’.  It was a fir tree so it went up in about 90 seconds.  I was scared stiff, I thought it was going to burn the house down.  So trust me with the bonfire, I’ll be fine with that.”
 
Timmy says he hopes to get on well with everyone but is worried about being abrupt and about being in front of cameras.
 
He says: “I think you’re aware of the cameras.  Maybe you forget about them after a couple of days but then you are also aware that you’re a nice pleasant chap for 23 hours and 59 minutes and in that last minute you go “B*llocks what a tw*t!” and that’s the bit they’ll show.  I’m not sure how any of us can keep that up all the time, I don’t think that you can.
 
“There are moments when I wake up in the night when I think, ‘What are you going to do when you are presented with that situation?’  I would hope that I take it all in good heart.  But I’m also quite well aware that there may well be occasions when I get stroppy and say, ‘No, I can’t do that’.  I think the public like to see people not do it but I think they are also a bit disappointed.  I also think we like to see our heroes tortured, out of their comfort zones and going, ‘Oo-er’.  I think there will be quite a few oo-er moments.
 
“There are things you can and cannot say and so in the planning there is this great big empty space that says, ‘How are you going to cope?’ and I don’t actually know.  There are quite a lot of things that we look at in our lives that we aren’t completely comfortable with when we’re shown a mirror, we think we are completely happy then the mirror comes up and says, ‘Do you know you do this and say this?’ and you think, ‘No, I don’t know that I do that’. But you do and that will be me.  I’m aware I can be rather abrupt.  I don’t suffer fools terribly easily and think the discomfort of seeing this could be quite great.”
 
Timmy adds that he likes cooking and keeping busy and has given up tea and coffee in preparation for the show.
 
He says: “Well I can cook, if it comes out too wet it’s slop and if it comes out too dry it’s mush so I’m quite good at slop and mush and I’m quite competent at that.
 
“I’m certainly a doer, I like doing.  I don’t want to be bored.  I’m aware that part of the tactics is to make you bored so you end up talking and saying rubbish.  I expect I’ll be a busy doer.  I quite like fiddling with this and fiddling with that.  I shall enjoy doing that.
 
“I’ve given up tea and coffee.  I’m drinking lots more water, it was quite easy to give up tea and coffee and cutting back on alcohol, that wasn’t too difficult either, a little harder than giving up tea and coffee.  I give up things for lent so it’s not too bad giving stuff up now.  I’ve given up second helpings as well.  Second helpings are always an issue with me, I liked that meal, it isn’t down yet so I’ll get a second helping.  But I’ve stopped that now.”
 
Timmy says there are five people he would especially like to be in the jungle with.
 
He says: “I’d have Emma Bunton, Baby Spice, I like her, she is adorable.  I’d have the Archbishop of York because he’s a bit of a geezer, I like him.  I’d have a nice sportsman, I’d have Audley Harrison.  I’d have Ringo Starr, he can come and sign my Beatles collection because Paul McCartney asked for my autograph, he said it was for his nephew but I know it was for him.  And I’d have Hillary Clinton because she is so determined, she never gives up and she is an example of unbelievable stickablity at it which is why I would definitely have her, she is brilliant.”
 
He also says he loves Ant and Dec and his role models from the I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here series are Carol Thatcher and Christopher Biggins.
 
He says: “My favourite bit is Ant and Dec.  They’re really, really, good and it makes the show because they are very rude about people, they’re quite irreverent but it’s done really fondly.  It’s very appealing.  I think they are really nice.  I say that now and hope they remember it!
 
“Carol Thatcher stands out for me.  ‘Sorry about my parking’ - what a line.  It’s just a classic line and a really funny situation.  I liked (Christopher) Biggins very much and I was fond of Janice (Dickinson) at the end.  (Christopher) Biggins was adorable and cuddly.
 
“I liked Joe Pasquale.  I remember him being pecked by the goat or chickens or something and he was terrific, I really liked him.  My other favourite bit with him was the way he, in the very first challenge, stood there, and they had finished the challenge and he still had his blindfold on.  I thought Toby Anstis was good.  I was very sorry that he was out first I thought that was a shame because I thought he was really good.”

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Name: David Van Day
Age: 51  (52 on 28th November)
Occupation: Singer
Celebrity supporters:  Shane Ritchie, Chris Ellis (The Bill) Chris Eubank, Bonnie Langford.
Phobias: Heights, Jungles, Creepy Crawlies
 
“Half the time I don’t know who I am anyway so it’s a way of finding myself, somewhere in the dunny.”
 
David admits that there isn’t much that appeals to him about jungle life.  He says: “I don’t like heights, I don’t like jungles, I don’t like creepy crawlies, I don’t like uncooked food, I don’t like been left alone in the dark, I’m not a great swimmer, I hate mud.  I like luxury five star hotels so I hate everything there is about a jungle.
 
He reveals that he thinks it will be a challenge for him.
 
“I think it will be a terrific adventure and it’s certainly like Indiana Jones with all the elements, and to do a job like this and have fun with it, well we are very lucky to be honest.  I know people say ‘oh all those snakes and mosquitos’ and wonder why anyone would enjoy that, but it’s a challenge. I guess you sort of show off, and hopefully you will get through it. A lot of the time people don’t, they break down and cry and it’s a test.  Half the time I don’t know who I am anyway so it’s a way of finding myself, somewhere in the dunny.”   
 
He says: “The toughest thing about being in the jungle will be missing my two daughters, Olivia and Amber, because they really do make me smile.  They give me so much back, and we have such good fun together.”
 
David is a big fan of I’m a Celebrity and has watched all the previous series.  He reveals that his favourite celebrities include Biggins, last year’s King of the Jungle. He describes his other memorable celebrities: “I loved Janice’s ‘oh man’ and Peter and Jordan’s romance was terrific and even Lynne Franks - she was annoying but good.  She was honest, I think that’s the thing there is no point trying to be someone you’re not, I thought Rodney Marsh was a bit of a bully and I don’t like bullies.”
 
He says that he hasn’t got a game plan: “I don’t have a game plan or anything, I don’t think you can keep your head down and get through it you might get away with that for a couple of days but that’s about it, and it’s not really what the show is about.”
 
David describes himself as a bit of a scatter brain, he says he talks too much, and is a bit eccentric.
 
He admits he will miss watching television while he is on it.  “I love TV, I watch it all day, I love British TV and I think it’s the best in the world - I love The X Factor. I will miss the news and I am glad I wasn’t in there when the election in America was going on because it was all so exciting.”
 
When asked who his nightmare campmate would be David laughs and says “Sonia” who he famously had a run-in with when filming Reborn in the USA.
 
However he is hoping for some love in the jungle. “I’m single, and I’m ready for love. I don’t think you can go and look for love, I think love has to tap you on the shoulder.  When you go out looking for it, you never find it, and then before you know it you’re talking to someone and you think hello, she’s quite nice.  So who knows?”