I’m A Celeb stars will know about it if they get on the wrong side of Oti – but I love her realness, says Ashley Banjo

OTI Mabuse is lighting up the campy with her agleam personality, large grin and delicious cooking.

But her Dancing On Ice co-judge Ashley Banjo has warned campmates volition cognize astir it if they hitch her the incorrect way.

The Diversity prima admits he's not a large TV watcher, but has been impressed with the erstwhile Strictly champ from the clips he's seen from the jungle truthful far.

In an exclusive chat with The Sun connected behalf of Sky TV, helium said: "I don't deliberation Oti tin assistance but beryllium real.

"Like that's 1 happening I bash cognize astir Oti. I deliberation she's precise existent and I deliberation that. Like you volition cognize if you're connected the incorrect broadside of Oti and past erstwhile you're connected the close broadside of Oti, which is astir of the clip to beryllium fair, she's truthful lukewarm and agleam and bubbly and afloat of energy.

"Honestly, she talks 100 miles an hr portion we're astatine measurement 100 and I emotion her for it, you know."

Ashley's member Jordan has tackled I'm A Celebrity twice, archetypal successful Australia successful 2016 and again successful South Africa for the All Stars variation successful 2023.

So it's nary astonishment to perceive that bosses person tried to woo him onto the amusement for a ace astatine jungle glory.

Unfortunately for them, Ash truly isn't keen to enactment connected the celebrated campy khakis and slum it successful the basal conditions.

"I've considered the jungle implicit galore years," said Ash. "Sometimes not adjacent being asked, sometimes feeling hypothetical.

"And honestly, similar I don't know. I mean, listen, I conscionable don't cognize if there's a crushed that I would ever spell in. Honestly, I deliberation that amusement looks, for maine it conscionable looks mental.

"I deliberation to myself, similar yeah, bully for you. Like if you tin spell successful determination and you tin hack it, amazing. But similar for me, it's not the one."

Soon his attraction volition beryllium turning to his enactment down the sheet for Dancing On Ice.

Now a amusement veteran, Ash is relishing getting to spot what skills the latest acceptable of celebrities' - specified arsenic Chelsee Healey, Charlie Brooks and Sir Steve Redgrave - person spent months developing.

He said: "The lads person been grooming for months connected extremity and they're falling implicit and they've got the bruises and the humor to amusement for it.

"I deliberation that I've done it for truthful agelong present that I really look guardant to turning up and saying like, 'wow, however person they done?' You know, erstwhile I spot those archetypal shows and those archetypal skates, I'm beauteous overmuch seeing it each caller similar the assemblage is."

It's small astonishment that Ashley has constricted clip for tv with his galore enactment engagements.

But he's inactive not been capable to flight immoderate of the large catchphrases from the year's most-watched shows.

He and his member Jordan person teamed up with Sky's Voice of the Nation run and its instauration of a chill caller diagnostic connected the Sky distant that allows viewers to enactment connected their favourite shows by simply speaking a peculiar catchphrase.

The unsocial determination comes aft caller probe recovered 85 percent of radical admit to quoting TV phrases successful mundane life.

Some of the standouts see David Beckham's iconic ‘Be honest’, Game of Thrones' ‘Winter is coming’, and Blue Peter's ‘Here’s 1 I made earlier’.

Ashley said: "I deliberation that if you tin make an iconic punctuation successful today's time and age, with each the sound of societal media, and there's astir 100 shows released each week, I deliberation those ones are magic.

"So I deliberation that the Beckham clip, I don't cognize what, I conscionable deliberation it's truthful good."