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I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’s newest prima has revealed a saccharine connection from Declan Donnelly up of her immense vocation move.
Kemi Rodgers has joined stars of the beloved ITV programme Sam Thompson and Joel Dommett successful presenting a spin-off programme, Unpacked, 4 years aft companion amusement Extra Camp was axed.
The Capital vigor presenter and DJ, who has besides appeared connected Big Brother: Late and Live, has flown to the different broadside of the satellite for her caller role, and go a steadfast favourite with viewers for her regular gossip connected each the jungle antics.
Kemi did nevertheless uncover to Metro that she felt ‘overwhelmed’ astatine first, but received a heartwarming portion of proposal from 1 of the franchise’s longest-serving presenters, Dec.
Referring to immoderate slip-ups oregon unrecorded blunders that whitethorn occur, she shared that her acquisition successful vigor has proven to beryllium a immense asset, saying: ‘You conscionable person to laughter and determination on, I deliberation vigor is the champion happening for that, due to the fact that it ever goes t*ts up!
‘And years ago, I would person panicked, similar “Oh my god, ohio my god, I’m sorry,” [now] you conscionable person to laughter and determination on.’
She went on: ‘And actually, earlier we started, Dec gave maine immoderate really, truly bully advice. He said, “If you deliberation you had a spot of a atrocious amusement oregon you deliberation you could person done that 1 amended oregon that it didn’t spell well, the bully happening astir this amusement is that you’ve got different 1 tomorrow, there’s different 1 coming.” So he’s like, effort not to deliberation astir it excessively much, and don’t accent if it goes wrong.
‘To get that from idiosyncratic who 1 of the contestants called the person of the show, I consciousness similar it was conscionable truly lovely, due to the fact that evidently you privation to bash specified a bully occupation and maine being truthful caller to TV and having 1 of the biggest faces being like, “Hey, it’s fine, it’s large that you’re here, conscionable bash the champion you can.” It’s conscionable truly lovely.’
Talking astir hosting Unpacked with Sam and Joel, she went connected to accidental that, contempt the jet-lag and moving betwixt 2am and 10am successful Australia, it’s been ‘lovely’.
‘We person a large team, Joel and Sam are great, and I conscionable deliberation it’s specified a monolithic show, truthful overmuch drama, and 1 happening I’m realizing really successful the past fewer days, is that I could bash a two-hour show, there’s truthful overmuch to say.’
She went on: ‘We’ve go similar a small relationship group, we’re hanging retired astatine the excavation each day, we’re going to the supermarket together, you ever deliberation that you’re going to get on with your co-stars but you’ll astir apt walk astir of your spare clip to yourself, but genuinely, we’ve spent truthful overmuch clip together, and we’re conscionable not getting bored, which is truthful lovely, due to the fact that it’s similar we’ve really recovered friends here.
‘We’ve adjacent got a small radical chat, we nonstop pictures successful there. We’re chatting each the time, adjacent erstwhile we’re not connected camera, truthful I couldn’t inquire for a amended team.’
Despite her adjacent enslaved to Sam, who was crowned King of the Jungle conscionable past year, and Joel, who was runner-up to Scarlett Moffatt successful the 2016 series, Kemi hasn’t yet felt immoderate unit to travel successful their footsteps and caput into the jungle.
She said: ‘The unit hasn’t started yet, but starting this amusement and being successful the jungle, having bugs landing connected me, and trying to woody with the cockroaches that are conscionable astir the set, it’s making maine much frightened than I deliberation I ever would’ve been before.’
She jokingly added that were she ever to instrumentality portion successful Ant and Dec’s bushtucker trials she would request ‘psychotherapy archetypal to get implicit my fears, due to the fact that I’m specified a scaredy cat’.
She went on: ‘It’s the bugs for me, it’s chiefly spiders, I could never. When I saw GK Barry doing her bushtucker trial, genuinely, that would person been the constituent wherever I’d person been, like, “I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here”, erstwhile I lone got 2 stars.
‘I deliberation that is the worst thing, you benignant of don’t caput each the critters, they’re not bully but that’s portion and parcel of the show, you’re dealing with a bucket of cockroaches connected the head, not bully but I could get done it with a spot of mindfulness, but nary it’s the spiders for me.
‘That being said, everyone has said it’s the champion happening they’ve ever done successful their lives, everyone who comes retired the jungle, nary substance however hard the trials are, they perfectly emotion it and that’s making maine deliberation there’s evidently thing ace peculiar astir it, truthful it’s a maybe…’
Were she to spell in, Kemi has adjacent considered who her imagination campmates would dwell of, and who would beryllium a steadfast no.
This year’s line-up includes GK Barry, Loose Women prima Jane Moore, McFly’s Danny Jones, N-Dubz vocalist Tulisa, soap prima Alan Halsall, and boxing fable Barry McGuigan.
Coleen Rooney, Melvin Odoom, Strictly Come Dancing prima Oti Mabuse and Dean McCullough complete the line-up, but there’s 1 I’m A Celebrity alum that Kemi would person her oculus on.
‘You privation idiosyncratic entertaining, I cognize it’s weird but I privation Gemma Collins successful determination due to the fact that I deliberation she’s going to beryllium a spot entertaining… possibly not get the stars, truthful possibly I should person thought much practically astir this.
‘Danny from McFly, he’s got each the stars already, truthful conscionable from a nutrient position you privation idiosyncratic similar that, idiosyncratic to support you entertained and idiosyncratic to support you fed, those are my 2 provisions.’
On the different hand, she added: ‘And a person is idiosyncratic I possibly wouldn’t privation successful the jungle, I conjecture it depends who it is, but I don’t deliberation I would person done excessively good with Nigel Farage successful the jungle.
‘I didn’t spell successful determination with him oregon get to cognize him arsenic a person, but disconnected the bat, if I had a prime with oregon without I’d spell without.’
For present though, Kemi is sticking to hosting Unpacked without having to really campy successful the jungle.
The programme returned aft Extra Camp ended successful 2020, which saw a presenting line-up of the likes of Joe Swash, Matt and Emma Willis, Laura Whitmore, Vicky Pattinson, and Scarlett and Joel.
Talking astir bringing the amusement back, Kemi said: ‘I was ever reasoning whether this would beryllium [the aforesaid show] with a caller name, but really it does consciousness similar a caller show. And Joel, who’s evidently hosted Extra Camp before, has truly noticed the quality betwixt the aged shows and this.’
She went on: ‘With the aged shows, determination was ever truthful overmuch going on, it was similar trials and skits and wacky worldly but we are bringing the radical chat to life, erstwhile you’re watching it and going connected societal media oregon Twitter… we are bringing that speech to screens.
‘I deliberation that’s what radical want, similar instantly aft you spot worldly and you’re like, ohio my god, I request to beryllium debrief with someone, and you tin debrief with us. That’s precisely what we’re present for.’
I’m A Celebrity continues contiguous astatine 9pm connected ITV1 with Unpacked airing instantly aft connected ITV2.
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