{"id":10150,"date":"2013-08-19T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=10150"},"modified":"2013-08-19T00:00:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T23:00:47","slug":"former-premiership-football-player-michael-owen-set-for-im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/10150\/former-premiership-football-player-michael-owen-set-for-im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Premiership football player Michael Owen set for I\u2019m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/michaelowen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/michaelowen.png\" alt=\"michael owen im a celebrity\" title=\"michael owen i&#039;m a celebrity get me out of here\" width=\"590\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10151\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/michaelowen.png 590w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/michaelowen-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of Liverpool\u2019s Football Club favourite sons, Michael Owen, look set to spend time in the jungle on the new series of I\u2019m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.<\/p>\n<p>Owen who ended his football playing career last season and has already embarked a on a new career as a football commentator, but earlier this year it was rumoured that the former football striker was to join this year&#8217;s <em>Strictly Come Dancing<\/em>, but Owen has said that he would prefer to try the jungle than the dance floor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I was ever going to do one it would be the jungle but I would need to be offered a few quid to do it, that&#8217;s for sure,&#8221; he told the Daily Star.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &#8220;People think I&#8217;m a saint so they would be in for a shock. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m not a lunatic, but I don&#8217;t think I would be able to contain my frustration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to keep a level of professionalism when you&#8217;re in the public eye but it would be hard in the jungle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, it has been reported that producers are willing to splash the cash on the ex-England striker in the hope he will score huge ratings for the ITV reality show.<\/p>\n<p>The former Stoke City, Liverpool, \u00adNewcastle and Man United player told the Daily Star Sunday he was considering the offer despite fears he would crack up in the jungle.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7469702309\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Liverpool\u2019s Football Club favourite sons, Michael Owen, look set to spend time in the jungle on the new series of I\u2019m \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/10150\/former-premiership-football-player-michael-owen-set-for-im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/michaelowen.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10153,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150\/revisions\/10153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}