It's been rumoured for weeks, but ITV have finally confirmed that Deal or No Deal's Noel Edmonds will join I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! as a late campmate shortly, and he already knows what sort of role he wants to play within the camp. Let's hope the other celebrities embrace him as part of their tormented family!
Noel Edmonds on I'm a Celebrity / Photo Credit: ITV Pictures
The 69-year-old TV presenter says he's ready to get stuck into camp life and hopes that his domestic skills will be most welcome amongst Anne, Emily, Fleur, Harry, James, John, Malique, Nick, Rita and Sair. He wants to be "the washer up" - though chores in the jungle are not quite as straight-forward as those back home.
"I am very good at domestic duties and I will keep the place as tidy as I can", he revealed.
Of course, there's always a chance that his role in the camp will actually be the Bushtucker Trial performer. He's got a sneaking suspicion that after all the TV pranks he's pulled on people in the past, he'll be put through "absolute hell" by the British public and he admits he thoroughly deserves it.
"I think the British public will enjoy seeing me finally getting my comeuppance!" He mused. "I just know they are going to really give me a hard time."
Just as long as he's not forced to do anything that involves confined spaces or heights! He admits that that's an odd combination of phobias when he's a fully-qualified helicopter pilot (and actually flies the same sort of helicopters the celebrities are flown in with), but dealing with it in somewhere like the jungle will up the ante considerably.
He says: "You can overcome phobias when you treat them logically but I may well succumb. I am going to give it my best shot. Whatever I do, I'm determined not to let people down. I have a fear of letting people down."
Furthermore, the ever self-depricating Noel is convinced he's going to win this year because he has promised that he will retire from television altogether if the public vote for him to be King of the Jungle.
"There's a deal that I am striking with the great British public who have supported me over the years", he insists. "They make me 'King of the Jungle' and I will retire and never appear again!"
Hmm... So the question is, viewers: Deal or no deal?