Babatunde Aléshé has swapped the stage for the Australian jungle with the Celebrity Gogglebox star heading into camp.
Ahead of his I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! debut, Babatunde has opened up about how he’ll cope with the lack of food on and whether he’ll get “hangry” or not.
“I grew up in Tottenham man, so really I lived a struggled life, do you know what I mean? So getting hangry I kind of know how to deal with," he said.
“I am not here to tell everybody like a sob story about my whole childhood, man that is the past and what I am saying in terms of that is that I have been through that so you know I know I can kind of deal with going hungry, things like that,” Babatunde continued to tell the Mirror.
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The comedian also insisted he doesn't feel pressure to be the funny man in camp despite being a stand up.
He said: "No way, if I don’t bust one joke whilst in there, that is amazing to me man! Nor I am not going to put that pressure on myself. I am not going to let no one, even the audience put that kind of pressure on me.
"I am not on stage while I am in camp so if people are like ‘well he isn’t funny’ it’s like, well come and see me when I am actually performing and then you will see that funny side. But nah I am not putting that pressure on myself, no."
In light of him having recently jetted off to Australia, the comedian also discussed how he’ll miss his wife Leonie and his son Judah.
“It was emotional like in terms of this is going to be the longest I have been away from her but it wasn’t as emotional as with my son as she understands what I am going to do,” Babatunde said.
"I told him I was going to be away for a month and you know he cried but the funniest thing is he doesn’t really understand time length, he doesn’t really understand what a month is really so he doesn't feel it."
Babatunde joins rugby star and Zara Phillip's husband Mike Tindall in heading to the jungle. Mike marks the first member of the Royal Family to join the show.
Speaking ahead of his debut, the 44 year old dad-of-three said he's an "open book". When asked if there are any misconceptions he's hoping to dispel on the show, Mike replied: "Nothing. I am an open book."
Explaining why he thinks the series will be tougher than rugby, he continued: “With a rugby game you know what you are going to get and when it gets hard, you know what it looks like.
"This is something you can’t predict; you don’t know where it will take you and so you can’t really plan for it.
“Your ability to roll with the punches is something you have got to have. Hopefully I have that and I won’t overthink things. Hopefully my personality suits this.”
I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! returns to screens on ITV this Sunday 6 November.
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