Sunday, 30th Oct 2005
WILDCAT Jenny Frost is heading for the jungle for I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!
The ex-Atomic Kitten babe looks purr-fect for the part in designer lingerie—complete with real leopard accessory.
We can also reveal that former EastEnder Sid Owen has been signed up for next month’s Australian challenge hosted by Ant and Dec. They will join ex-PM Margaret Thatcher’s daughter Carol, Bargain Hunt’s David Dickinson, comics Cannon and Ball, TV host Magenta Devine and wine buff Jilly Goolden.
Producers hope Jenny, 27, will spill the beans on celebrity pals like coke-snorting Kate Moss and Jude Law’s ex-wife, Sadie Frost.
A show insider said: “Jenny is a great signing. She’s down to earth but her friends are some of the biggest names in showbiz. And she’ll look amazing in a bikini.”
Jenny hopes the show will revive her flagging career as it did for Kerry Katona when she won in February last year. Singer Jenny replaced Kerry in Atomic Kitten, but when the band split last year her solo single Crash Landing flopped.
However, she caused a sensation at celebrity London restaurant The Ivy recently when she turned up in a see-through blouse that showed off her nipple ring.
Jenny, who’s engaged to DJ Dominic Thrupp, 42, says she likes snogging her female pals so TV chiefs are hoping for some girl-on-girl action.
Sid Owen, 33, is another coup for the ITV show after he turned them down last year. Sid—Bianca’s “Ric-kaay” in the BBC soap—quit in February and now lives in France where he owns a restaurant.
He’s single since splitting from girlfriend Carty Hubbard last year.
Among the other confirmed celebs, producers hope that opinionated journalist and broadcaster Carol Thatcher, 52, won’t mince her words talking about life at 10 Downing Street.
Bentley-driving antiques expert David Dickinson, 64, could be hilarious as he hates slumming it.
But bosses hope Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball—Thomas Derbyshire, 67, and Robert Harper, 61—will also raise a few laughs.
Former heroin addict Magenta Devine, 43, known for her trademark black shades, hosted the BBC’s Rough Guide travel series, but nothing was as rough as this.
And expect a lot of, er, whining from telly toff Jilly Goolden, 48, off the BBC’s Food And Drink show.
The full line-up will be revealed next month but those who said no include cross-dressing basketballer Dennis Rodman, model Anna Nicole Smith, magazine editor Piers Morgan and the A Team’s Mr T.
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