I’m A Celebrity 2014: All the weird facts you DIDN’T need to know about each of the contestants

Michael Buerk had a WHAT about his life?!


by Emmeline Saunders |
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So the I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! 2014 line-up has been revealed, and there's a fair few famous faces in there - as well as a few you might not recognise.

Us, being the helpful bunch we are, have scrambled around trying to find some key facts about each of the contestants that would really tell you what they're like as humans.

Well we didn't find any of those. Soz. But we did learn a bunch of completely useless information about all of them, so we're giving you that instead.

#Yourewelks

Additional reporting by Owen Tonks, Gwendolyn Smith and Claire Hubble
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Weird facts you didn't know about the I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here 2014 line-up!

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Kendra Wilkinson

Was asked by Hugh Hefner to be one of his three main girlfriends while walking round wearing NOTHING but bodypaint at his 78th birthday party Married NFL star Hank Baskett and had two kids with him – but they split earlier this year after an alleged infidelity on his partShe sent her first letter in the post aged 23 human years – and forgot to put a stamp on it. This was later described by Kendra as “the biggest blonde moment of my life”

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Melanie Sykes

  • A northern model who first found fame as the face of Boddington’s beer, then progressed to co-presenting Today With Des And Mel with Des O'Connor- She hit headlines in 2008 by tweeting sexual messages at then-boyfriend Jack Cockings, which included indications about his “winkle” and a request for him to “fill my face”- Someone has already bet a huge amount on her winning I’m A Celeb and stands to collect £10,000 if she takes the jungle crown
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Craig Charles

  • Aged 12, he won a national poetry competition run by The Guardian newspaper- He’s admitted to blowing a quarter of a million pounds on cocaine while starring in Coronation Street- He narrated the cult game show Takeshi’s Castle
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Michael Buerk

The newsreader has rubbish eyes – he wanted to be in the RAF before he was a journalist but couldn’t because he failed an eye test.

Michael narrated Pineapple Dance Studios, which basically means he got paid to talk about Louie Spence prance down a corridor.

His life is the subject of a comedy musical, Buerk! The Newsical. Wow…

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jimmy-bullard

Before Jimmy was a footballer he was a painter and decorator – GLAMOUR!

He’s English by birth but has a German grandmother, meaning he’s eligible for the German national team. He once thought about playing for team Nationalmannschaft, which sounds rude.

In 2006 he was honoured by Soccer AM for running the full length of the pitch in the dark when the flood lights went out in an attempt to score a goal during Wigan Athletic’s League Cup against Arsenal. Unfortunately he leapfrogged a load of Arsenal players in the process and fell flat on his face.

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Nadia Forde

An Irish model who’s also tried her hand at stand-up comedy, singing AND acting Rumoured to have told Rory McIlroy to shove the Claret Jug up his arse after they split She LOVES Disney and doing panto because “you're living in a fairy tale every day”

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Vicki Michelle

In the play Hello Norma Jeane, she took on the part of an Essex grandmother who escapes from her care home in Stockthorpe-on-Sea and claims to be Marilyn Monroe.

She cleaned cars to make money in her childhood.

She earned just £220 a go for the early episodes of ‘Allo ‘Allo.

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Gemma Collins

Gemma was born on 31 January 1981 – the same day as Justin Timberlake! Although the two were worlds apart, with Gem born in Essex (of course) and the Timbersnake in Memphis, Tennesse.Despite being known for flaunting her curves, Gemma recently opened up being bullied online because of her plus-size figure. “In the last few months, the abuse from people about my weight has really got to me. I feel panicky about how big I’ll look on screen ad I get so much s**t on Twitter after I’ve been on TV,” Gem reveals in this week’s issue of heat. Who could forget the epic poolside takedown where Gem told Arg “Take a good look at this. You ain’t ever gonna get this candy. I am sexy, James, I AM sexy!”

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Carl Fogarty

Earlier this year in June, a drunk teenager crashed a stolen car into Carl’s £500,000 luxury property. Luckily, the teen emerged unscathed, but he caused £3,000 worth of damage.Carl won a whopping 59 races on top of four Superbike World Championships during his career.Carl admitted that he lives a pretty tame life these days. “I tend to go to bed about 9’oclock and watch a film in bed.”

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Tinchy Stryder

His real name is Kwasi Danquah III. Incredible.If he hadn’t gone into music, Tinchy would have been a footballer – he was signed to the academy of Wimbledon FC in the early Noughties and played for the Leyton Orient youth team between 2003 and 2006.Before going into the jungle, he teamed up with the Chuckle Brothers to record the charity single To Me, To You (Bruv), a process he described to heat as “cool”.

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