BOY George has been signed up for the new series of I’m A Celebrity.
The Karma Chameleon singer, 61, who shot to fame in the Eighties with Culture Club, will head Down Under as the show returns next month.
ITV execs are delighted by the A-list signing and hope the eccentric star will be TV gold in the jungle.
A telly source said: “Boy George is a real coup for producers, there is a lot of excitement in-house at ITV.
“The singer is renowned for his dry wit and frank delivery, he is always outspoken and will be hilarious value in camp.
“There is hope that he will regale viewers with his showbiz stories about his famous friends.
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“While George is well acquainted with Australia after living in Sydney for several years, he has no experience of the Outback, so will be like a fish out of water living rough.”
But vegan George won’t be forced to eat insects in Bushtucker Trials and will be given meat and fish alternatives at camp meals.
Earlier this year George was a guest on Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Take-away and told the duo, who host the reality show, that the idea of eating meat put him off, saying: “Unless you do a vegan version and then I’m in.”
And speaking in 2016 the singer, who is renowned for wearing signature hats, revealed he turned down the survival series several times due to strict campmate uniform and lack of food.
He said: “There would be serious clothing restrictions in the jungle.
“I’d have to get certain hats made and I couldn’t get over the food. I would have a problem with that.”
He was close to starring on Celebrity Big Brother, but revealed last year he was talked out of it by his mother Dinah.
Football legend Adebayo Akinfenwa, 40, and Hollyoaks star Owen Warner, 23, are also being lined up to take part in the series.
Producers have just wrapped filming an I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here! all-star special in South Africa, to be aired early next year.
