I’m a Celebrity legend Lady C has said she would consider taking part in its new spin-off series for a “significant amount” of cash.
Royal author Lady Colin Campbell, 72, said she would need to be “compensated properly” before she signed on the dotted line.
Past contestants who made striking impressions on the ITV show, including winners and runners-up, will take part in the spin-off, which will be filmed this summer in South Africa.
During her time in the Australian jungle in 2015, Jamaican-born Lady C was a viewer favourite as she clashed with some of her fellow campers.
She called Gold singer Tony Hadley, 61, “a Dumbo, a chippy oik, a bully, a liar, with the mouth of diarrhoea”.
But he retaliated by calling her a “fantasist” after she quit the show days before the final. The socialite also fell out with former Dragons’ Den entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne, 73, over emu poo.
Lady C said she only did the show the first time round because of the cash.
She reveals: “I accepted them in 2015 because I had no interest in doing it for anything except the money.
“I found the experience extremely disagreeable, so it’s one I’d not be in a rush to repeat except for good money.”
Lady C, who said she is yet to be contacted by ITV, admitted South Africa sounded much more appealing than Wales, where the regular show is filmed.
She said: “I’d do it in Wales if they paid me £5million. I’d do it in South Africa if they paid me a bit less. It would still have to be a significant sum of money, otherwise I’m not interested.”
Asked if she would like to see Tony or Duncan back in the jungle for the spin-off show, she added: “They’re all nonentities!
“They may be entities in their own world, but they are really nonentities generally, and quite frankly not one of them has a decent personality, so why would any of them be invited back? That’s the question I’d ask.
“There are genuinely interesting people they could ask, like Martina Navratilova, who is a genuine celebrity and has genuinely interesting points of view.”
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Lady C did concede she was grateful to the show in other respects.
“I can thank I’m a Celebrity for having given me the platform upon which the public could see me as I truly was,” she says. “They liked what they saw, which was truly gratifying. Fortunately lots of them took me to their hearts. Some of course didn’t, but that’s life – not everybody has to like you.”
Ant and Dec are to front the new ITV series, which was revealed in the Mirror.
It is set to be filmed in Kruger National Park and will air next year.
An ITV spokesman said: “Because the show is pre-recorded, viewers will see celebs voting over trials and who leaves. They’ll have a hand in their own destiny.”
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