{"id":10697,"date":"2013-11-13T20:48:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T19:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=10697"},"modified":"2013-11-13T20:48:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T19:48:29","slug":"joey-essex-im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here-2013-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/10697\/joey-essex-im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here-2013-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Essex I\u2019m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here 2013 profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOWIE star Joey Essex will leave the creature comforts of his beloved Essex behind and battle with the creatures of the Australian jungle over the next few weeks, in his attempt to become king of the jungle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/joey-essex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10698\" title=\"Joey Essex\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/joey-essex.jpg\" alt=\"Joey Essex\" width=\"417\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/joey-essex.jpg 417w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/joey-essex-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/joey-essex-233x350.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Profile<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Age: 23<br \/>\nDate of Birth: 29 July 1990<br \/>\nPhobias: Any creepy crawly. \u201cI wash my hands even when I have touched a dog.\u201d<br \/>\nMissing any special occasion: Filming of the TOWIE Christmas special<br \/>\nRelationship status: Single<\/p>\n<p>As he prepares to enter the I\u2019m A Celebrity camp, Joey<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>hopes there will be a \u2018beautiful\u2019 and single female contestant joining him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am single at the moment,\u201d admits the 23-year-old. \u201cIf there was a nice girl in there and I got on really well with her, who knows what would happen?!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA bit of eye candy would be nice so hopefully there will be a beautiful girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pauses, laughs and then stresses: \u201cPlease!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Joey, going on I\u2019m A Celebrity is an opportunity that far exceeds his wildest dreams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive years ago, I started watching the show and now I really can\u2019t believe I am going to be going in the jungle,\u201d he says. \u201cI am so happy. I can\u2019t say this enough. What an incredible opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am actually lost for words because I am so excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons for accepting the offer, he continues, is to show viewers another side to his personality. \u201cI want them to see who I really am,\u201d he explains. \u201cThis is a chance for me to show everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the jungle, I can be myself. I am not an argumentative person. I like to have friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He plans to put one hundred per cent effort into every challenge, but Joey knows he is not very brave when it comes to anything that moves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not really scared but if a spider was by me, I wouldn\u2019t want to touch it,\u201d he admits. \u201cI would not be scared for hours and I would be more like \u2018argh\u2019, but even if I touch a dog or a cat, I wash my hands. My reactions are going to be heightened in the jungle for sure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how I will feel if I have to jump out of a plane. I can\u2019t imagine doing it but I will just have to give it a go.\u201d<\/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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWIE star Joey Essex will leave the creature comforts of his beloved Essex behind and battle with the creatures of the Australian jungle \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/10697\/joey-essex-im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here-2013-profile\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10698,"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":[96],"class_list":["post-10697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-im-a-celebrity-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/joey-essex.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697","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=10697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10700,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions\/10700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}