I'm A Celeb star Danny Jones offered public show of support from McFly bandmate after jungle sorrow

As Danny Jones broke down successful tears successful the jungle implicit the anxiousness that has dogged him each his life, his McFly bandmates were assured helium would rein successful his demons.

Just earlier the bassist agreed astatine abbreviated announcement to articulation the show, drummer Harry Judd took an affectional telephone from him successful which helium confided helium was apprehensive astir the challenge.

Within days Danny, 38, was sharing those fears openly with his I’m a Celebrity campmates.

Weeping arsenic helium poured his bosom retired astir being successful therapy from the property of 19, helium told of his panic onslaught “whiteout” during a unrecorded interrogation connected This Morning.

And helium explained however his bosom complaint soars, often leaving him struggling to breathe. But Harry is successful nary uncertainty Danny has plentifulness of coping methods to woody with his anxiety, contempt his reservations astir exposing his vulnerabilities connected the world show.

He says: “He wears his bosom connected his sleeve. I deliberation it’s conscionable that overwhelming happening of putting yourself successful this position, being connected this large TV amusement wherever you cognize you’ll beryllium judged.

“He wasn’t truthful overmuch tense astir the tasks and the challenges, I deliberation helium was much tense astir being filmed constantly, and being 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.” 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”, suffering claustrophobia, acold sweats and “feeling a set tightening astir my chest”, making him fearfulness helium was having a bosom attack.

He said: “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.”

But having known Danny for much than 2 decades, Harry insists: “I’ve ever said helium would beryllium astonishing connected this show. He’s conscionable truthful likeable.

“He’s got specified large vigor – you can’t not similar Danny. He’s got this magic smile. He’s got that prime that is rather unique.”

And Danny besides has an other inducement to propulsion done his fears – bandmate Dougie Poynter won the amusement successful 2011 and has made Danny vow ne'er to outcry the show’s celebrated rubric to backmost retired of a challenge.

Harry says: “He’ll consciousness the unit from Dougie.

“Dougie volition beryllium precise disappointed 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 instrumentality thing precise utmost for him to request to accidental that.”

In the archetypal episode, Danny emerged from the Mausoleum of Misery, wherever a bull python tangled itself successful his shorts, saying helium had “never felt truthful vulnerable”, trapped successful the coffin-style container surrounded by snakes. He admitted that helium had “had the shakes” similar his archetypal days performing connected signifier with the group, backmost successful 2003.

Harry says Danny’s bandmates are staggered that helium has taken connected the challenges truthful good – arsenic erstwhile the radical situation each different successful laddish eating, drinking and workout competitions, helium reckons helium is usually archetypal to buckle.

Describing him affectionately arsenic “the biggest wimp successful McFly”, helium says: “He’s proving maine wrong… astatine the moment. I thought the happening he’d find hardest is the eating challenges.

“I couldn’t judge connected the archetypal occurrence erstwhile helium drank that portion – he’s atrocious astatine things similar that normally.”

It is clear, though, that Danny is nary alien to putting himself done his paces – viewers person been impressed by his six-pack arsenic helium stood nether the jungle’s freezing shower, letting retired primal screams of pain.

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

Danny’s main nonsubjective with going into the jungle has been to marque his six-year-old lad Cooper arrogant – which helium has achieved already.

Wife Georgia, a erstwhile Miss England, says their lad has been boasting of however celebrated his daddy is going to beryllium erstwhile helium leaves the jungle.

Although having been the winning manager connected The Voice with his bandmate Tom Fletcher conscionable a fewer weeks ago, and selling 10 cardinal records with the BRIT Award-winning McFly, helium was already beauteous well-known.

The radical are presently celebrating 21 years unneurotic – and Harry says what has kept them unneurotic is their friendships and their communal support.

He explains: “It’s the champion happening that anyone tin experience.

“That’s the main crushed we’ve lasted, we person truthful overmuch amusive together. My fig 1 extremity successful beingness is to effort and marque them laugh. I walk 95% of my clip successful McFly p***ing 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.”

Back successful the jungle, 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 backstage karaoke sessions with her ex-England prima husband, Wayne.

He said: “Danny’s hung retired with Wayne doing Soccer Aid a fewer times. Once they were having a portion and Danny had a guitar and was singing songs. I deliberation Wayne got up and sung a opus – truthful I hoped he’d person that benignant of transportation with Coleen too.”

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