The cheeky I'm A Celebrity presenters talk George's voice, David's song and Brian's privates...
Who would you like to see more of in camp?
Ant: I’m a big fan of David Van Day. He’s a bit mad, you don’t know what you’re going to get. You can go from having a joke and a laugh to being deadly serious the next minute.
Dec: What I can gather from all my messages and emails and texts from the UK, is that he’s a bit Marmitey – you either love him or hate him.
Ant: George has gone a bit quiet for my liking. I love his chats in the Bush Telegraph. I love the way he speaks. He could read a takeaway menu and it would sound like Shakespeare. But he’s gone a bit quiet over the last few days. I’d love to see George do a Trial.
Dec: That’s just cruel, he’s 71 years old.
Ant: But I just want to see more of him on screen, and the only way you can do that is in a Trial.
Dec: You’re a cruel, cruel man. Martina’s been very quiet but she’s been coming out with some real gems - some really lovely little one-liners. She’s been good value but I would like to see more of her.
What has been your comedy highlight so far this series?
Ant: My favourite comedy moment of the series so far has been David Van Day’s song.
In unison: Biff baff boff we’re celebrities...
Ant (sings): ...‘Biff baff boff you’ve got us down on our knees’. I think that’s the tune. Every year they always come up with a song and think its genius because they haven’t listened to music or been stimulated for almost a week. Any little melody they get in their head, they think it’s a future number one! And it obviously isn’t. It’s rubbish.
Dec: Inadvertently, one of my favourite funny moments of the series was Nicola rushing to tell the Bush Telegraph that her breasts were one year old, in the middle of Brian Paddick telling the Bush Telegraph that he’s got quite an elderly mother. It’s priceless.
Has anyone surprised you in camp?
Dec: Brian Paddick surprised me. That whole going naked business. I wasn’t expecting that from the former Deputy Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.
Ant: What surprised me is his reason for it. He said, ‘I just want to do things that I do at home, and I don’t shower in my shorts at home, so I won’t here’. Have a cup of tea. You do that at home. If you wanted to do stuff you do at home, showering naked isn’t the first thing that springs to mind.
Dec: You know what really surprised me as well? The size of the star they used to cover up his ‘thing’ on the screen. Really, does it need to be that big? And was that star put on afterwards, or was it there when he was showering?
Ant: Did someone have it on a stick and followed him around with it when he was naked, just in case anybody saw anything? That’s what I reckon...
Dec: Or did he just tie it on somewhere in the morning. It could be a little willy warmer. A star willy warmer.
Ant: Maybe that’s what they do in those beaches in Oslo, you don’t know...
If you could create your ideal camper from body parts of former contestants, which parts would you use and why?
Ant: Myleene Klass’ body, the attitude of Janice Dickinson, the warm friendliness of Biggins...
Dec: The sense of humour of Phil Tufnell.
Ant: ...The tall stories of David Gest, the delivery of George Takei...
Dec: Yeah, he’s got to sound like George Takei...
Ant: And the star of Brian Paddick. That would be the ideal campmate.
