Fred Sirieix is in talks for 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!'.
Fred Sirieix in talks for I'm A Celeb
The 51-year-old 'First Dates' star is set to head to the Australian jungle for the ITV reality TV show, despite previously saying he would hate to do a bushtucker trial.
A source told The Sun newspaper's TV Biz column: "Show bosses hope he’ll be a hit with the ladies watching, which is part of the reason they’ve targeted him.
“Everyone’s really excited that they’re close to signing him up.”
This comes less than a year after Fred ruled out appearing on the show.
He previously told HELLO! magazine: "I don’t think I’d do 'I’m a Celebrity'. I wouldn’t be too keen on eating a camel’s anus or something like that.
"I know I eat frogs, I’m French, but at least those frogs are cooked! They are deliciously prepared, whereas a camel's anus is put in a blender and you have to eat it raw. It's awful. I know people who have been there - it's really not 'gastronomie'."
However, he admitted he would love to compete in rival channel BBC's 'Strictly Come Dancing'
He said: "I got a taste of 'Strictly Come Dancing' when I did the quickstep with Dianne Buswell for the Christmas Special. Oh my god, it was hard! It took me three weeks just to nail that 90-second routine. I only nailed it on the Sunday night just before the show, after almost a month of rehearsals. Dianne was so great, very patient with me. It must have been so frustrating for her to have to rehearse the same steps with me over and over again.
"Would I do the whole series? I'd love to, but it would be impossible this year, I'm just too busy."
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