Jungle-bound Nigel Farage insists his experiences in Parliament and the European Union has been the right coaching floor for his latest TV enterprise – as a result of he is used to ‘coping with snakes.’
The GB News broadcaster and former UKIP and Brexit get together chief is believed to be incomes a bumper £1.5million for a possible three week keep in rural Australia for the latest collection of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
But he admits he is prepared for regardless of the jungle throws at him when he enters camp forward of the returning present’s launch on November 19.
Addressing GB News viewers in a pre-recorded video on Monday, Farage, 59, mentioned: ‘So the hypothesis is over, I’m going into the jungle, but it surely’s okay as a result of I’m used to coping with snakes and different horrible reptiles each in Brussels and right here in Westminster – I’m certain I’ll be capable of survive.’
The pint-loving former politician additionally revealed he was getting ready for a lifetime of enforced abstinence within the jungle by quickly giving up booze and caffeine, 5 days earlier than his flight to Australia.
He mentioned: ‘No there isn’t any booze in there, which is sort of a severe state of affairs for my part.
‘Equally, and simply as essential funnily sufficient is tea and low. So as a bit of coaching for going into the jungle I haven’t had an alcoholic drink, a cup of tea or espresso now for 5 days.’
Farage revealed present producers first approached him seven years in the past, shortly after Britain voted to go away the European Union following a referendum he supported.
‘They’ve requested me yearly since 2016 to go within the jungle I all the time thought it’s not the correct time for me to do it,’ he mentioned.
‘But I can’t do it subsequent 12 months as a result of we’ve obtained a common election, we’ve American presidential elections, so this 12 months I’m form of free in a solution to do it.’
He added: ‘You know, the (Brexit) referendum was a very long time in the past, there are loads of young individuals who don’t know who I’m, don’t know what I stand for.
‘This is my large likelihood to succeed in a very large viewers of young individuals, which I feel shall be good for me and actually good for GB News as effectively. That’s one motive for doing it.’
Farage shall be joined by one other number of pop stars, actors and social media influencers when he lands within the jungle, amongst them TikTookay star Nella Rose – a staunch leftist at odds together with his proper leaning political opinions.
Foreshadowing a possible conflict together with his imminent campmate, he added: ‘Worst nightmare? That’s straightforward – there’s hundreds of them. Anyone who’s an aggressive remoaner could be the worst nightmare.’
The broadcaster additionally insisted the principle problem shall be stepping out of his consolation zone after years spent dwelling in a political bubble.
‘I’ve lived on information, numbers, and knowledge,’ he mentioned. ‘To go away from that for a number of weeks is one actually large problem: to confront issues which might be clearly horrifying however to need to take care of them and are available by way of them.
‘The upsides are apparent. They’re apparent. You attain an entire new large viewers, you take a look at your self in a means that you just haven’t finished for years, you make good money doing it.
‘The downsides – effectively look. It may very well be a whole, whole automotive crash. A catastrophe. I’d end up having a combat with someone – who is aware of! I’d get voted out on the primary spherical, I don’t know.
He added: ‘But I do know that issues might go very badly flawed and also you’re on digital camera 24 hours a day, seven days per week for as much as 22 days that the contestants are within the jungle. So in fact rather a lot might go flawed.
‘But whoever did something in life that was worthwhile with out taking a danger?’
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! aires at 9:00pm on ITV1 from November 19.
