Bang Showbiz
30 September 2020
John Barnes
Former footballer John Barnes wants to participate in ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!’, however he admitted hypothesis he has signed up for the present is vast of the mark as a result of she hasn’t been approached
John Barnes wants to participate in ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!’.
The 56-year-outdated former footballer has a grasp plan to be the ‘I’m A Celebrity’ man this 12 months, and whereas he believes he may lose some weight on the ITV present, he admitted hypothesis he has already signed up is vast of the mark.
He informed new! journal: “There’s been a rumour I’m doing it for the last six months, but they haven’t even approached me. It’s something I would do. If you go on that, you’re definitely going to lose weight. Having a bug in my mouth is not a problem. Put salt and garlic on anything and I’ll eat it.”
John has additionally taken half in different competitions, corresponding to ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ in 2007 and ‘Celebrity MasterChef’ earlier this 12 months.
And whereas he was on the BBC Latin and ballroom dancing competitors, the ex-England star was in a position to lose as much as 4 stone simply from coaching day-after-day.
Asked how a lot weight he misplaced on the programme, he replied: “About three or four stone. That was when I was training five hours every day, which I didn’t necessarily want to do!”
However, he is aware of his “problem” with meals lies within the “quantity”.
He defined: “You could see from my ‘Celebrity MasterChef’ performance that my problem is the quantity. I always cook a lot of food and I can’t leave it. If it’s there I have to eat it.”
The former Liverpool participant lately appeared on ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ however was despatched dwelling with simply £1,000 after asking for the viewers’s assist with a query.
He joked the studio viewers had been getting their very own again following the soccer rivalry between Manchester and Liverpool because the ITV present is filmed on the Dock10 studios in Greater Manchester.
He quipped: “I blame the audience! You go on ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ and expect to win at least £250,000, and that’s why I blame the audience in Manchester, because they know I’m from Liverpool and they’re probably Man United fans, so they wanted me to get it wrong.”