I'm A Celebrity late addition Reverend Richard Coles admits eating 5,000 calories a day ahead of jungle stint

Reverend Richard Coles has revealed a unsocial mode of dealing with imaginable starvation during his stint connected I’m A Celebrity - helium has deliberately been piling connected the pounds.

The 62-year-old erstwhile Communards musician, who present practices arsenic a Church of England priest, has been confirmed arsenic a precocious entrant connected the Ant and Dec fronted ITV show, which began past Sunday.

He volition participate the campy during Wednesday’s episode, alongside erstwhile Love Island prima Maura Higgins, 33.

While immoderate stars purpose to get successful signifier earlier going into the jungle, Rev Coles has precocious returned from a cruise wherever helium admitted to consuming up to “5,000 calories a day”.

“I deliberation I'm already fatter since my measurements the time earlier yesterday, and volition beryllium for the adjacent acceptable of measurements,” helium told the MailOnline.

“So no, I've not done that astatine all. I tried to, and I thought I should due to the fact that I ideate the assemblage volition announcement going from 5000 calories a time to 500 calories a day, but it's good, and I volition suffer a spot of weight.”

The erstwhile Strictly Come Dancing contestant whitethorn not fare excessively good connected conscionable beans and rice, telling the publication: “I americium mostly competitory successful a quiz, but if there's a scramble for a buffet… When I was a vicar, they utilized to marque maine not spell to the buffet due to the fact that I would elbow aged ladies retired the mode to get to the pork pies.”

He and Higgins volition articulation the likes of WAG Coleen Rooney, 39, erstwhile X-Factor justice Tulisa Contostavlos, 36, influencer GK Barry, 25, writer Jane Moore, 62, and boxing promoter Barry McGuigan, 32, who person already been successful the jungle for six days.

Another celebrated look who is acceptable to get successful connected the enactment is TV presenter Ruth Langsford, 64.

There volition beryllium nary bushtucker trials for her arsenic she is jetting implicit to enactment Loose Women co-star Moore.