Read an interview with Seann Walsh below.<\/strong><\/p>\nFour years after he was famously paired with Matt Hancock as a late entry on the 2022 series of I\u2019m A Celebrity\u2026Get Me Out Of Here! comedian Seann Walsh admits he still regards it as the most surreal experience of his life. The TV comic reveals he also continues to get stopped by members of the public who are eager to find out what he really thought of the politician. And now as he faces the South African jungle, Seann recalls how he could not stop laughing for thirty minutes when he entered camp in Australia and found out his fellow late entry was the former Health Minister. \u201cPeople still come up to me and bring up Hancock\u2019s entrance into the show\u201d, he says. \u201cI always tell them that however long it felt like I was laughing on the show, it was actually for longer – about half an hour! It\u2019s the most surreal experience I\u2019ve ever had!\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet despite his surreal introduction to life in Australia, Seann says he loved every minute of his time on the programme \u2013 and it\u2019s the reason why he is back for a second helping despite his phobia of creepy crawlies. \u201cI had so much fun the first time around, I didn\u2019t have to think for very long about whether I should do it or not,\u201d he confesses. \u201cWhen you cross that bridge after you are out in the original series, anything difficult about the experience completely disappears and you are left with these wonderful memories that you get to keep for the rest of your life. Then as soon as you agree to go back in, all the things that were difficult return! I\u2019ve still got phobias. The programme only cures you of your phobias when you are in there. As soon as you are back home, they all return! I\u2019m feeling both nervous and excited.\u201d<\/p>\n
He will be forever grateful for the fact I\u2019m A Celebrity\u2026 boosted his career after his jungle stint. Seann does, however, think it will be much tougher in South Africa \u2013 because he knows what to expect. \u201cI know what it feels like to have those ants biting me or to have thousands of bugs all over you and it\u2019s not nice! I think knowing is worse than not knowing.\u201d He says the lack of food causing tiredness will also be a test again. \u201cIt\u2019s a real mountain to climb,\u201d he adds. \u201cPeople came up to me afterwards and asked if we secretly have food prepared for us \u2013 but we really don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since Australia, he is now a dad of two and he confesses it will be hard being away from his children. \u201cIn camp, time really slows down,\u201d he says. \u201cYou really feel it in there. Not only are you away from your children, but it\u2019s also how far away you are and that\u2019s tough. I am worried about that. It is going to be a new experience. I do cry as a daddy. If my daughter says: \u2018I love you daddy\u2019, I start crying. Being apart from them is going to be difficult whilst I am there.\u201d Seann also thinks it would be a beyond incredible feeling to be able to tell them he had been \u2018crowned a legend\u2019 should he go on and win the second All Stars series. Reveals Seann: \u201cI have had a very strange, unique career and it\u2019s been a rollercoaster. I came fifth last time and so to go back in and become a legend \u2013 well that would be absolutely amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seann Walsh on his last I’m A Celebrity appearance..<\/p>\n
Series: 2022, finished in fifth place (22nd series)<\/p>\n
Camp highlight:<\/strong> Singing \u2018Karma Chameleon\u2019 with Boy George in the jungle. The first concert I ever went to was at Wembley Arena to see Culture Club. To then sing this song with him was wonderful. We\u2019ve stayed in touch ever since. He\u2019s an incredible human being.<\/p>\nScariest trial:<\/strong> I\u2019m going to go for my most surreal trial and that was the first task I was given as a late entry with Matt Hancock. We had to pretend to be \u2018secret mission moles\u2019 and it was just so surreal doing it with him. He\u2019d been someone I had watched on TV during Covid and then suddenly there he was with me in the jungle!<\/p>\nIdeal campmate:<\/strong> Sue Cleaver, Boy George or Jill Scott from my series or Joe Pasquale. I met him once and he is hilarious.<\/p>\nDid IAC change me?<\/strong> Not me as a person, but it changed my life in a very positive way. I was able to go back on tour again and sell out rooms again. I am forever grateful.<\/p>\nWhat I learnt about myself:<\/strong> It\u2019s nice to know I do get on with people. The truth is outside of the jungle, I keep myself to a small group of friends and doing stand-up is extraordinary but lonely at times. I get nervous meeting new people and so it\u2019s nice to know I can do it.<\/p>\nMy best memory:<\/strong> Getting to know a group of wonderful people who had all done extraordinary things.<\/p>\nInterview\/Picture: ITV1<\/p>\n
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