I'm A Celeb star Melvin Odoom's love life, very famous sister and radio co-star shock

Radio 1 DJ Melvin Odoom is tipped to spell acold successful the jungle - but who volition beryllium waiting to hug him erstwhile helium leaves?

He's 1 of 2 Radio 1 hosts who volition beryllium battling it retired to beryllium crowned King oregon Queen of the jungle.

But if helium does prime up the coveted title, who volition beryllium lasting astatine the extremity of the enactment span to conscionable him?

Melvin Odoom, who co-hosts the mid-morning vigor show, is facing his biggest situation yet arsenic this year’s ITV amusement kicks disconnected contiguous with a radical of intrepid celebs, which includes chap DJ Dean McCollough.

But Melvin mightiness beryllium successful for a daze - helium has admitted he’s frightened of beauteous overmuch everything, particularly bugs.

"I'm acrophobic of everything but heights. I don't caput heights, years agone I went successful a Red Bull aeroplane and they looped around, it was similar G-force.

If I had to bash anything, similar jumping retired of the plane, I don't deliberation I'd caput that much, it's the slightest happening I'd beryllium a acrophobic of.

"It would beryllium scary, but thing else, I hatred insects, I hatred bugs."

Melvin has revealed helium is azygous astatine the infinitesimal and looking for emotion - truthful determination won’t beryllium a romanticist country astatine the extremity if helium makes it to the last 2 contestants.

But Melvin has tons of personage friends, including erstwhile I’m A Celebrity contestant, comedian Babatunde Aleshe, who has tipped him to triumph the 2024 variation of the show.

He said: “I’ve known Melvin for ages, I deliberation that he’s going to airy up the spot with his personality.

“So astatine the opening I’m saying possibly Melvin, but we’ll see, you ne'er know. When you’re successful there, it’s different. When you’re hungry, you mightiness accidental the incorrect thing, truthful let’s conscionable wait.”

Melvin is besides 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.

Melvin, who besides presented The Xtra Factor successful 2015 earlier competing successful the 14th bid of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing successful 2016, is besides adjacent friends with his Radio 1 co-host Charlie Hedges.

In 2002, helium said has readying connected being an “amazing uncle” to Charlie’s unborn babe aft she shocked him by revealed connected aerial that she was expecting.

“I’ve known her for 15 years, she’s going to beryllium an unthinkable mum,” helium said.

And helium joked helium would beryllium a “cheap uncle” since helium likes to beryllium frugal with his millions.

He said: 'I'm going to beryllium a precise inexpensive uncle, I'm going to beryllium determination whenever you request maine for anything, I'll prevention arsenic overmuch wealth arsenic imaginable connected Christmas and day presents.”