I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

SIMON WEBBE

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Age: 30
Occupation: Singer and Songwriter
Celebrity supporters: Danny Dyer, Nicola Stapleton, Duncan James
Phobias: Everything
Special Skills: Being a strong alpha male
He says: “I’m afraid of everything to be honest. I’m not ashamed to say it.”

Singer Simon Webbe has confessed he is frightened about every aspect of the jungle, but not what people think about him.

He says: “I’m afraid of everything to be honest. I’m not ashamed to say it, maybe when I was younger I would turn around and say, ‘I’m not afraid of anything’, but I’m a 30-year-old man so I can’t be bothered with that anymore.

“Anything that crawls, anything that runs on the floor, anything that slithers, anything that can fall on me and get into little nooks and crannies, I’m afraid of everything. So I don’t know why I’m going to the jungle. I don’t like heights, I don’t like water – I don’t swim, I don’t even swim in the swimming pool, I’m not a very strong swimmer.

“I don’t really care how people find me. I think there will be a good mixture of people there. I think there will be divas, I think there’s going to be anti-divas, there’s going to be people that are going to struggle and there’s probably people that will bully them if only to take their minds off their own situations. I study human beings; that’s my job, that’s why I write songs. So for me I’m just an observer. I’ve been an observer for a long time and I’ll make my mind up once I get there.”

Simon also reveals he’s worried that his friendliness with the ladies could be misconstrued as flirting on camera. The hunky singer said he wouldn’t want to upset his girlfriend by flirting with another girl in the camp.

He says: “I’ve never thought I’m a big flirt. I’ve gone through years saying to myself, ‘No you’re not, you’re not, you’re not, you’re not, you’re not’, and people have gone, ‘You are, Si, you are’.

“And I’ve realised that now, so obviously I don’t want to be flirting because that’s not fair on my girlfriend…and this is the kind of show where you’re going to be put in an environment with people and for me you know I’ve got to stay focused and stay true to my lovely girlfriend, which I will be.

“If anyone’s flirting with me then that’s a different story. Then I’ll just nip it in the bud, and you know just be straight. ‘Do you like me? I’ve got a girlfriend – put the brakes on it right now’.”

He’s also worried his worst personal habit – of putting his hands down the front of his pants – will offend viewers.

He says: “My most annoying habit, and one that I’ve had since I was a baby so I can’t help it, is that I put my hands down my front. Teachers in school used to make me sit on my hands. If I’m chilling then I just do it. I don’t know where it stems from, whether it’s from when I was in my mum’s belly; it must be genetic because I really can’t help it.

“That’s one habit I’ve got which I’m trying to stop. One thing that I find annoying in other people is snoring. If people snore when I try to get to sleep I will go crazy. Literally someone will get hurt.”

The singer says his other biggest fear about the jungle is getting kidnapped by a gorilla.

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