I'm A Celeb's Melvin Odoom off camera - love life and gym goal to look like JLS star

I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! star, Melvin Odoom, made his debut connected the ITV amusement connected Sunday alongside stars, including Coleen Rooney and GK Barry

Radio One DJ Melvin Odoom is tipped to spell acold connected I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!

The fashionable presenter, 44, looked delighted with beingness erstwhile the bid kicked disconnected connected Sunday arsenic helium got to cognize his chap campers, including Coleen Rooney and GK Barry.

Of course, helium already knows chap Radio DJ, Dean McCullough, who is besides eyeing up the King of the Jungle crown. So, arsenic we hold to spot however Melvin fares among the creepy crawlies - and his chap campmates - here's the lowdown connected his beingness off-camera.

Love life

Melvin has ever been incredibly backstage astir his romanticist beingness but astatine present, it's believed the DJ is presently single. In a caller YouTube interview, helium said: "Dating is hard. For me, don't unopen yourself disconnected from thing due to the fact that your imaginable spouse could beryllium anywhere. You person to chill and spell with the flow, you can't power love."

It remains to beryllium seen who volition conscionable Melvin connected the enactment span erstwhile his clip connected I'm A Celebrity is up, but the presenter does person plentifulness of friends. Fellow I'm A Celeb star, Babatunde Aleshe, praised his pal, adjacent tipping him to triumph the series, telling us: “I’ve known Melvin for ages, I deliberation that he’s going to airy up the spot with his personality." Of course, Melvin could besides beryllium greeted successful Australia by his celebrated sister...

Famous sister

Melvin is adjacent to his sister, Yonah Odoom, who has go a acquainted look connected TV herself successful immoderate of television's biggest soaps implicit the years.

She has had roles successful Coronation Street, Hollyoaks and The Windsors, arsenic good arsenic successful the 2018 action-drama series, Bulletproof. talking astir however overmuch helium would miss his sibling portion connected I'm A Celeb, helium told the Mirror: “I was thinking, ‘Who would I astir privation to talk to (whilst successful camp)?’ and I started tearing up reasoning astir my sister and being acold distant from her. She is the champion idiosyncratic successful the world. I truly anticipation determination is simply a quality successful the campy who is similar my sister.”

Gym extremity to look similar JLS star

Ahead of his stint connected I'm A Celebrity, Melvin has been hitting the gym and dieting to look bully successful the jungle shower. The BBC Radio 1 presenter scrapped sweetener from his fare and has been intermittent fasting to hole himself for the paltry portions successful the jungle successful the coming weeks.

When helium was officially announced to beryllium appearing connected I'm A Celeb, Melvin said helium hopes to look arsenic bully arsenic his JLS vocalist pal Marvin Humes, 39, - who had fans swooning during ablution scenes connected past year's show. Speaking up of his jungle debut, Melvin told The Sun: "I've got to enactment a batch harder to look arsenic bully arsenic Marvin. But yeah, I've been trying to bash a spot much gym training."

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