Vanessa Feltz has confirmed she will not be heading into the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! camp, whatever fee is offered. The 64-year-old presenter, whose career spans more than four decades, said she would be "so appalling at it" and that every time she says no, bosses offer her more money - but she is not bargaining.
Feltz on why she keeps saying no
When asked if ITV have been in touch this year, Feltz said: "Not yet, but they usually are in touch but I have not changed my mind. I would be so appalling at it." She added: "Every single thing they would ask me to do, I would be terrible. I think I'd be so terrible, it wouldn't even be funny. I don't think people would like it."
Feltz, speaking on behalf of BetWright Casino, explained her reasons: "I'd be bored, I'd be fed up, I wouldn't like being hungry, I wouldn't like being eaten by mosquitoes, I wouldn't like the rats, the snakes and I wouldn't like some horrible rat scuttling over my face."
Not tempted by the jungle or the money
She continued: "I don't care about seeing Australia or the jungle, I couldn't care less and I like being where my family are in North West London or in East Cork. So, no, I'm not going to say yes but the funny thing is, every time I say no, they think I'm doing it for the money."
"Every time I say no, they offer me more money but I really mean no. I'm not bargaining. I do not want to go and that's it. I think it would be absolutely terrible. I think I'd just look like an absolute cretinous idiot."
Open to Celebrity Traitors - with one problem
While Feltz is not tempted by the Bushtucker Trials, she is keen to face the roundtables on Celebrity Traitors, but she says there is one problem. "I wouldn't mind having a bash at The Traitors but I'm not sure I'd be any good at that because I think I'm so fluent and so many words come tumbling out of my mouth at all times," she explained.
"I never seem to stop for breath and I'm never fishing around for the next word. The vocabulary just runs and runs and I think people never believe a word I say. Years ago I did a show called Call My Bluff, where they had to guess are you lying or are you telling the truth? They kept thinking I was lying when I wasn't at all."
"So I think if I was on Traitors, people would just think I was a Traitor straight away and I'd be the first person, like Paloma Faith, on the bus going home within ten and a half seconds." I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! is due to return to ITV1 and ITVX later this year.
