I'm A Celeb's Danny Jones made tearful phone call to McFly bandmate revealing worst fears about show

As Danny Jones broke down successful tears implicit the crippling anxiety that has dogged him passim his 2 decennary career, his McFly bandmates could stay assured that helium had his demons nether control.

Drummer Harry Judd shared an affectional telephone telephone with the band’s bassist, earlier helium agreed to alert retired to Brisbane, Australia astatine comparatively abbreviated notice, arsenic helium confided that helium was feeling apprehensive astir taking connected the challenges of starring connected I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here.

Within days, Danny, 38, was sharing those aforesaid fears with his campmates, weeping arsenic helium poured retired his bosom astir being successful therapy from the property of 19, and detailing the symptom of coping with a panic onslaught “whiteout” during an interrogation unrecorded connected This Morning. He spoke candidly astir however his heartrate increases rapidly, which tin permission him struggling to breath.

Bandmate Harry was ever definite helium would beryllium truthful open. “He wears his bosom connected his sleeve emotionally,” helium says.

And Harry is assured that Danny has plentifulness of coping methods astatine his disposal to grip immoderate anxiousness successful the jungle, contempt his reservations astir “exposing” his vulnerabilities connected the world series.

Harry recalls of his concerns: “I deliberation that is conscionable the overwhelming of putting yourself successful this presumption of being connected this large TV amusement wherever you cognize you’re going to beryllium judged, that’s much the anxiety.

“But he’s decidedly got coping mechanisms. I deliberation helium wasn’t truthful overmuch tense astir the tasks and the challenges and things. I deliberation helium was much tense astir being filmed perpetually without his location comforts, feeling a spot thrown successful and conscionable wanting to get retired of there.

“I don’t deliberation it truly had thing to bash with the snakes and the spiders. It’s much conscionable exposing yourself.

“I’ve ever said helium would beryllium astonishing connected this show. He’s conscionable he’s truthful likeable. He’s got specified large energy. You can’t not similar Danny. He’s got this magic grin - he’s got that prime that is rather a unsocial thing.”

Danny archetypal experienced debilitating anxiousness attacks astatine 18, astir the clip his parents’ matrimony ended. It resurfaced erstwhile helium turned 20, a twelvemonth aft helium joined the lad band.

He has antecedently described experiencing “dark thoughts I couldn’t control”, detailing: “I experienced claustrophobia, coming retired successful acold sweats, feeling a set tightening astir my thorax and worrying I was having a bosom attack. It’s truthful scary and I’ve felt similar I was dying connected occasions. You can’t judge your assemblage tin bash that to you.”

Yet Danny the eventual inducement to propulsion done his fears: bandmate Dougie Poynter won the amusement successful 2011, and made him committedness not to ever outcry the show’s celebrated rubric to backmost retired of a challenge.

“He’ll consciousness the unit from Dougie,” laughs Harry. “Dougie volition beryllium precise disappointed if helium if helium fails connected that one. But I deliberation it’s the close cognition to have. I deliberation you’ve got to truly propulsion yourself successful these situations. It would thing precise utmost for him to accidental that.”

Indeed, successful the archetypal episode, Danny emerged from the Mausoleum of Museum - wherever a bull python tangled itself into his shorts - admitting helium had “never felt truthful vulnerable” than being trapped successful the coffin-style container surrounded by snakes.

He added that helium “had the shakes” similar his archetypal days performing connected signifier with the group, backmost successful 2003.

It is particularly awesome to his staggered bandmates that helium has taken connected the challenges truthful good - arsenic erstwhile the radical situation each different successful laddish eating, drinking and workout competitions, Harry laughs Danny is usually the firt to buckle, describing him affectionately arsenic “the biggest wimp successful McFly”.

“He’s proving maine incorrect - astatine the moment,” helium laughs. “I thought the happening helium would find the hardest is eating challenges - I couldn’t judge connected the archetypal occurrence erstwhile helium drank that portion due to the fact that helium is atrocious astatine things similar that normally.”

Danny is surely nary alien to putting himself done his paces - viewers were impressed with his six pack, arsenic helium entered the jungle’s celebrated freezing acold shower, portion letting retired primal screams of pain.

“He’s ever successful beauteous bully shape,” says Harry. “He goes to the gym and stays acceptable - I’m definite helium turned the screws somewhat connected his workout regime, but who wouldn’t?”

Danny’s main nonsubjective with going into the jungle has been to marque his six-year-old lad Cooper arrogant - and helium already has, arsenic his woman of 10 years Georgia, a erstwhile Miss England, has laughed Cooper has been boasting of however celebrated his daddy is going to beryllium erstwhile helium leaves the jungle.

Though having won The Voice with his bandmate Tom Fletcher conscionable a fewer weeks ago, aft selling 10 cardinal records with the BRIT Award-winning McFly, helium was intelligibly already beauteous famous.

The radical are presently celebrating 21 years unneurotic - unheard of for a popular group, having lasted astir 4 times the accustomed lifecycle of a boyband. Harry credits their friendships, and the enactment they connection 1 different with helping them past truthful long.

“It’s the champion happening that anyone tin experience,” says Harry. “That’s the main crushed we’ve lasted, due to the fact that we conscionable person truthful overmuch amusive together.

“My fig 1 extremity inactive successful beingness is to effort and marque them laugh. And I volition walk 95% of my clip successful McFly pissing about, fundamentally trying to marque them laugh. And past 5% of the clip being superior and getting the enactment done. That’s the secret, really.”

Danny has already palled up with boxing fable Barry McGuigan, comparing the brace to the Karate Kid duo, but Harry says helium would besides person an state successful Coleen Rooney, arsenic helium has enjoyed concealed karaoke sessions with her husband, erstwhile England prima Wayne, who has seen the radical execute unrecorded before.

“Danny has besides hung retired with Wayne doing Soccer Aid a fewer times,” continues Harry. “One evening aft the game, they were having a portion and Danny had an acoustic guitar and was singing songs. I deliberation Wayne Rooney got up and sung a song, truthful I hoped that helium would person that benignant of transportation with Coleen.”

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