This years’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here contestants have now been connfirmed by ITV:
Antony Cotton
Age: 36
Date of Birth: 5th August 1975
Famous For: Playing Sean Tully in Coronation Street
Phobias: Flying, Heights, and Claustrophobia
Missing any special occasions? “The filming of Katherine Kelly’s final scene in Coronation Street and her leaving do.”
Relationship status: “I never discuss my private life”
Crissy Rock
Age: 53
Date of Birth: 23rd September 1958
Famous For: Appearing as Janey York in Benidorm
Phobias: Bungee jumping
Missing any special occasions? “Aside from bingo, no!”
Relationship status: Single
Dougie Poynter
Age: 23
Date of Birth: 30th November 1987
Famous For: Playing bass in pop rock band McFly
Phobias: “I have got one huge phobia that I can’t talk about. It’s weird.”
Missing any special occasions? “It’s my birthday in the jungle.”
Relationship status: “I ain’t too sure at the moment. Ask her.”
Fatima Whitbread MBE
Age: 50
Date of Birth: 3rd March 1961
Famous For: Athlete, winning an Olympic silver medal at javelin
Phobias: Jumping out of a plane
Missing any special occasions? “My best friend’s birthday”
Relationship status: Single
Freddie Starr
Age: 68
Date of Birth: 9th January 1943
Famous For: Comedian, subject of The Sun headline “Freddie Starr ate my hamster”
Phobias: “I don’t like putting my hands in a hole and not knowing what is in there”
Missing any special occasions? “No but I am going to miss my fiancée Sophie. We have never spent a day apart.”
Relationship status: Engaged.
Jessica Jane Clement
Age: 26
Date of Birth: 24th February 1985
Famous For: Presenting BBC Three’s The Real Hustle
Phobias: “Spiders. I have been having nightmares about them!”
Missing any special occasions? “I have just got engaged, I have had to put the celebrations on ice until I return from the jungle.”
Relationship status: Engaged.
Lorraine Chase
Age: 60
Date of Birth: 16th July 1951
Famous For: Modelling, playing Steph Stokes in Emmerdale
Phobias: “I am the same as everyone else. Most of us don’t like spiders, don’t want our face against a rat and would not choose to be near a snake.”
Relationship status: Single.
Mark Wright
Age: 24
Date of Birth: 20th January 1987
Famous For: Cast member of The Only Way Is Essex
Phobias: “I do have some but I don’t want to say what they are!”
Relationship status: Single.
Stefanie Powers
Age: 69
Date of Birth: 2nd November 1942
Famous For: Actress, known as Jennifer Hart in 80s show Hart To Hart
Phobias: None
Missing any special occasions? “No. As an actress you understand and tolerate long absences.”
Relationship status: “I am attached.”
Willie Carson OBE
Age: 68 – turns 69 on 16th November!
Date of Birth: 16th November 1942
Famous For: Jockey who rode 187 winners in 1990
Phobias: Heights
Missing any special occasions? “Yes, I am letting down quite a few people in terms of social occasions. I only decided to go in the jungle a couple of weeks beforehand.”
Relationship status: Married.