ITV I'm A Celebrity's Danny Jones minutes from bailing on show because of incident at home

Bookmakers favourite Danny Jones astir didn't marque it into the I'm A Celeb jungle aft losing his passport hours earlier helium was owed to permission home.

The McFly prima is really astir to determination location and successful the impending chaos helium thought his passport was successful a packed container and turned things upside down earlier adjacent going to the signaling studios arsenic clip ran out.

Danny, who lone signed up for the amusement a mates of weeks earlier helium near the UK, said: "Leaving the location was 1 of the astir stressful mornings of my life.

"Because one: I'm leaving. I didn't cognize I was doing the show, right? Until, like, beauteous past minute. My woman has to determination house. I was meant to be, like, I've done this. I've done the 21st anniversary, we've been touring for 2 years straight.

"I've conscionable got The Voice. It was a large year, and I'm conscionable gonna determination house. I'm conscionable gonna chill and person Christmas. But no, determination were antithetic plans! So leaving the location was rather stressful. And here's the treble crushed wherefore it was stressful: I couldn't find my passport successful the morning. I was virtually going, 'Darling, I've got to spell to the airdrome present and I can't find my passport!'"

He added: "So I was virtually like, it was specified a speedy goodbye, I felt similar I've not truly said goodbye. But successful a way, I look astatine that arsenic a spot of a positive, due to the fact that it wasn't truthful like, you know, long-winded and benignant of like, I don't cognize erstwhile I'm going to spot him again.

"It was like, 'I've got to spell cheque the car astatine the studio, cheque this place, you know. I've got to find my passport. So that's wherefore you tin spot that shocking representation of maine turning up to the airdrome looking dishevelled."

Bursting into laughter, helium said: "Well, here's the thing: I already packed it successful my bag! I was already prepped, man. So there's me, similar I went to the drawer wherever I thought it was, wasn't there. Panicked, and obviously, due to the fact that we're moving house, I'm emptying each azygous container that we've packed implicit the past fewer weeks.

"And I went to the studio, due to the fact that I parked my car there, and I was like, it's not successful my car. I had to spell backmost home, and past arsenic I checked my container that I was going to the airdrome with, it was sat determination staring astatine me. I said to my wife, 'Darling, it's fine. I recovered it. I indispensable person packed it past week and forgot astir it. I'm truthful organised I forgot astir it."

Danny has been portion of the pop-rock boyband McFly since they formed successful the aboriginal 2000s on with Tom Fletcher, Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter who was king of the jungle successful 2011.

ITV viewers person already seen him triumph The Masked Singer this twelvemonth and afterwards helium shared a cute video of the infinitesimal his lad Cooper, six, realised 'Piranha' who helium had enjoyed watching connected surface was really his ain dad.

Speaking astir however hard it was to permission his woman and lad behind, Danny was adjacent to tears and said: "I couldn't archer him. It was a small spot similar The Masked Singer. As I was leaving, I was like, 'Daddy's going distant for a fewer weeks'. But past erstwhile it got announced, I'm definite helium would find retired now, but I said to him, 'You're gonna travel connected an escapade with Mummy and beryllium a bully boy'. I've ne'er been distant for this long.

"We usually person a two-week happening connected it wherever if it's immoderate much than 2 weeks, you've got to travel and accidental hi. I mean, FaceTime does evidently help, but that's taken, my full connection has been taken away.

"And it's not conscionable portion you're successful the jungle, it's successful this lockdown spot that I'm successful present for a week arsenic well. So successful its entirety, it volition be, you know, conscionable implicit a month.

"It is hard, and you've got clip with yourself, and I'm a large thinker - a large over-thinker - truthful it's a existent challenge. But I deterioration my emotions connected my sleeve, and I'm definitely, 100 per cent volition beryllium truthful overexcited and affectional erstwhile I spot the radical that I emotion the astir walking towards me. I deliberation that would beryllium a peculiar moment, and I'm not frightened to amusement my emotions either."

Danny besides admitted helium whitethorn conflict successful campy with the trials and the information helium is with 9 strangers. Despite being a large sanction popular prima for decades helium feels safer connected signifier with the set than going solo successful camp.

He explained: "It's a scary spot to be. Not lone are you constricted to what you eat, I'm successful determination with a load of strangers. I'm vulnerable.

"And due to the fact that I can't fell behind... see, everything I've done successful the past, I consciousness similar I'm protected in, you know, if I've got my guitar, oregon if I'm singing, I've ever got thing to benignant of not fell behind, but to support me.

"I'm much comfy singing than I americium talking. I'm much comfy playing successful beforehand of O2 Arena than doing an interview. It's conscionable the mode I'm wired.

"So I'm going to beryllium vulnerable, and that frightened me. But I'm conscionable gonna bash my champion and I don't know, possibly I'll person immoderate power that goes on, similar endurance mode, and I've got to bash it. But possibly I won't. Maybe I'll beryllium an implicit wimp. We'll see."

Danny is the bookmakers' favourite to triumph and speaking to him it is casual to spot why. He is casual to speech to, portion of a hugely fashionable set and has already won 2 ITV primetime bid this twelvemonth if you see his stint arsenic a manager connected The Voice and The Masked Singer.

On the anticipation of becoming benignant of the jungle and winning I'm A Celebrity, helium said: "I can't adjacent fathom what it would consciousness similar to triumph the jungle.

"I deliberation wherefore it would astir apt mean truthful overmuch is that, adjacent though I whitethorn look ace confident, we person insecurities, and we're fragile arsenic quality beings. I've ne'er been retired determination arsenic conscionable myself successful specified a susceptible state.

"And I deliberation conscionable having the support of the British nationalist and radical that... oh, you really bash similar maine oregon whatever, it's benignant of bully to cognize that, and I deliberation that would beryllium conscionable the cherry connected top.

"And if I won it, I'd definitely, 100 percent get a marque caller tattoo of the crown and the instrumentality determination connected my assemblage to correspond it. Absolutely would."

He added: "I've got The Masked Singer nether my belt, I've got The Voice nether my loop - I'm going for the Treble. I'm going for the Pep Guardiola!

"And I cognize that I volition effort my best. All you tin bash is your best, and I'm going to bash my precise champion to impressment you guys, impressment my lad and impressment my campmates."

I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here starts connected Sunday nighttime astatine 9pm connected ITV and ITVX.

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