Labour MP Jamie Reed has revealed he turned down an offer to appear on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, and suggested that producers are desperate to get anti-Jeremy Corbyn politicians on the series.
Reed - MP for Copeland in Cumbria and former Shadow Health Minister - made headlines and briefly trended on Twitter earlier this year when he resigned from the Shadow Cabinet within minutes of Corbyn's victory as Labour leader.
Writing for The Guardian, the 42-year-old politician explained that he was approached shortly after handing in his resignation, but would not be following in the footsteps of Tory MP Nadine Dorries and entering the ITV jungle next month.
On why he turned it down, he wrote: "Filled with white terror, my mind drifted to thoughts of the furious far-left organising to torture me night after night on national TV.
"As they organised phone banks to keep me in the show,...
Reed - MP for Copeland in Cumbria and former Shadow Health Minister - made headlines and briefly trended on Twitter earlier this year when he resigned from the Shadow Cabinet within minutes of Corbyn's victory as Labour leader.
Writing for The Guardian, the 42-year-old politician explained that he was approached shortly after handing in his resignation, but would not be following in the footsteps of Tory MP Nadine Dorries and entering the ITV jungle next month.
On why he turned it down, he wrote: "Filled with white terror, my mind drifted to thoughts of the furious far-left organising to torture me night after night on national TV.
"As they organised phone banks to keep me in the show,...
- 10/23/2015
- Digital Spy
Strictly Come Dancing is still months away, but the rumours about which celebrities could be taking part this year are really starting to heat up now - and they've been going since January. So it felt like a good time to start to put together all the speculation we've heard to see if we can figure out who'll be hitting the ballroom in the new series.
Strictly Come Dancing: This is how they keep the celebrities taking part a secret
Strictly Come Dancing 2015 winner: We rank the celebrities' changes of topping BBC One's dance-off
With all the contestants now confirmed, check out the lineup below - and lament what could have been with the rumours that didn't become a reality. Oh well, there's always the Christmas special...
Confirmed
Rumoured
Confirmed contestants
Jeremy Vine
King of the swingometer Jeremy became the first celebrity confirmed for Strictly on August 10.
The...
Strictly Come Dancing: This is how they keep the celebrities taking part a secret
Strictly Come Dancing 2015 winner: We rank the celebrities' changes of topping BBC One's dance-off
With all the contestants now confirmed, check out the lineup below - and lament what could have been with the rumours that didn't become a reality. Oh well, there's always the Christmas special...
Confirmed
Rumoured
Confirmed contestants
Jeremy Vine
King of the swingometer Jeremy became the first celebrity confirmed for Strictly on August 10.
The...
- 8/28/2015
- Digital Spy
Big Brother is just around the corner - we have an eye, a theme and a launch date! But while we're excited about that, it also means Celebrity Big Brother is drawing ever closer, so our thoughts naturally turned to who might be heading into the house this summer.
We've already heard that we're in for a UK vs Us theme this series, but that's nothing without housemates, so we've rounded up the rumours - from the likely to the... not at all likely. Read on to see who might be popping in...
Janice Dickinson
Who? "The world's first supermodel", Janice used to be a very outspoken judge on America's Next Top Model. She's been on I'm a Celebrity, and also hit the headlines recently after alleging that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted her.
The rumour: Janice has been rumoured to be going into the house for ages now, with some...
We've already heard that we're in for a UK vs Us theme this series, but that's nothing without housemates, so we've rounded up the rumours - from the likely to the... not at all likely. Read on to see who might be popping in...
Janice Dickinson
Who? "The world's first supermodel", Janice used to be a very outspoken judge on America's Next Top Model. She's been on I'm a Celebrity, and also hit the headlines recently after alleging that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted her.
The rumour: Janice has been rumoured to be going into the house for ages now, with some...
- 8/6/2015
- Digital Spy
Adrian Chiles and Karen Danczuk are being lined up to appear on 'Strictly Come Dancing'. The former football commentator and the wife of Labour MP Simon Danczuk are just some of the celebrities who are reportedly being lined up to take to the dance floor later this year for the thirteenth series of the BBC One show. A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: ''Every year the producers want to get bigger names than the year before and two names that are on their radar are Adrian's and Karen's. ''It came as a huge shock to everyone when Adrian Chiles was sacked by...
- 3/23/2015
- Virgin Media - TV
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