Who is I’m A Celebrity 2024 star Dean McCullough after iconic ‘Wagatha Christie’ quip?

Dean McCullough has already emerged arsenic a fan-favourite connected I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! just hours aft entering the jungle.

The 32-year-old prima has already delivered an iconic Wagatha Christie quip to Coleen Rooney, and near viewers successful hysterics aft telling hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly astir his IBS troubles during the archetypal grim eating challenge.

He’s present into his archetypal time successful the campy alongside the likes of Strictly Come Dancing’s Oti Mabuse, McFly’s Danny Jones, Tulisa Contostavlos, and Alan Halsall.

Jane Moore, Melvin Odoom, Barry McGuigan, and GK Barry are besides portion of this year’s line-up with 2 much rumoured stars acceptable to beryllium joining.

After skydiving to the beach, pursuing a smoothie of blended bull’s penis, food oculus and vomit fruit, Dean met his chap campmates, and chose to spouse up with Coleen for the adjacent portion of the challenge.

‘Wagatha Christie, you’re coming with me!’ helium yelled, instantly capturing the hearts of viewers.

Here’s everything we cognize astir the prima who has already produced the enactment of the series…

Who is Dean McCullough?

Dean is simply a Northern Irish vigor presenter who admitted helium has phobias of ‘everything’ and is seeing I’m a Celebrity arsenic a three-week therapy camp.

He said: ‘I americium terrified of everything and the much I deliberation astir being enactment successful the crushed with 50 snakes oregon getting those greenish alert things that wound poured implicit maine – good there’s conscionable nary constituent reasoning astir it, arsenic different I won’t get connected the plane!’

Dean presently presenter connected BBC Radio 1, and has antecedently presented connected Gaydio.

Where is Dean McCullough from?

Dean was calved successful Newtownabbey, Country Antrim successful Northern Ireland.

Earlier this year, Dean opened up astir his acquisition of hidden homelessness, wherever radical are forced to sofa surf oregon are stuck successful impermanent accommodation.

He told The Big Issue: ‘We weren’t surviving connected the street, we were surviving connected my aunt’s location connected a sofa. I was moving betwixt houses connected a regular basis.’

Wanting to ‘widen the narrative’ astir what homelessness is, the vigor prima spoke astir the effect the instability has connected young people.

He explained: ‘I person problems with my possessions and feeling similar I request to instrumentality attraction of perfectly everything astir me.

‘That comes down to moving from location to location and not ever feeling similar thing was ever genuinely mine.’

‘For a agelong clip I had nary fixed address,’ helium added. ‘I would spell retired connected the Thursday and conscionable enactment retired each play due to the fact that I conscionable didn’t privation to spell home.’

What is Dean McCullough’s occupation astatine BBC Radio 1?

In December 2020, Dean filled successful for Clara Amfo connected BBC Radio 1 for 2 days.

In March the pursuing year, helium returned to screen the aboriginal meal amusement connected Fridays for 5 weeks.

He past began hosting his ain slot betwixt 10.30am and 1pm from September, replacing Jordan North.

In July 2022, it was confirmed that Dean and Vicky Hawkesworth were replacing Scott Mills and Chris Stark arsenic co-hosts of Radio 1’s day show, from 1pm until 3.30pm.

Their amusement was presented from Salford, making it the archetypal Radio 1 weekday programme to beryllium broadcast from extracurricular of London.

Does Dean McCullough person a partner?

As per his Instagram, Dean keeps his romanticist beingness firmly retired of the spotlight.

He did nevertheless notation his fellow successful a TikTok earlier this year, though it’s not confirmed who the enigma antheral is, oregon if they’re inactive together.

Was Dean McCullough connected Big Brother?

Dean was not a housemate connected Big Brother, oregon Celebrity Big Brother, but helium has made respective appearances alongside hosts Will Best and AJ Odudu and different guests connected spin-off Late and Live, wherever helium shared his brutal thoughts connected the different housemates.

Dean has besides had a past brushwood with fame connected Britain’s Got Talent, wherever helium was portion of an all-male dancing radical called The Glambassadors successful 2013.

Their show wowed the judges and reportedly near justice David Walliams labelling them ‘camper than Christmas’.

Dean has besides appeared connected ITV drama world amusement CALM: Retreat Yourself, arsenic a panellist connected Love Island: Aftersun, connected Celebrity Mastermind, and spoken astir his sobriety travel connected Morning Live.

Ahead of entering the jungle, Dean admitted helium astir passed retired conscionable watching the amusement past twelvemonth and erstwhile had to checkout of a hostel successful the mediate of the nighttime aft seeing a cockroach, but is prepared to ‘give everything ago’.

He added: ‘I privation to effort and get immoderate stars for everyone. I person travelled the world, I person backpacked, taught successful orphanages and I person gone done the mill respective times.

‘But I americium 32 present and it’s clip to commencement a caller section and larn a spot much astir who I am. A three-week therapy league is the cleanable mode to picture this!’

He’s hoping to bring ‘good vibes’ to the campy to counteract immoderate debased moods, and promises to marque up creation routines and promote everyone other to sing.

‘I’m present for a bully clip – not a agelong time,’ Dean declared.

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! continues contiguous astatine 9pm connected ITV1.

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