Piers Morgan reveals he turned down big money reality TV show just last week – saying ‘my parents would disown me'
PIERS Morgan has revealed that he turned down a big money reality TV show just last week.
Journalist and presenter Piers, 60, admitted that if he went on the show his "parents would disown" him.
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Piers is no stranger when it comes to reality TV, appearing on Celebrity Apprentice in 2008 and as a judge on both America and Britain's Got Talent.
But there is one show in particular which is off the cards for the broadcaster.
Speaking on the Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth podcast Piers revealed that he turned down a huge reality TV show just last week.
Speaking on the latest episode of the pod he says of his parents:
'One thing they always said to me was 'Don't ever do the jungle, I'm A Celebrity', I always remember this and last week I got a call from ITV 'Could we tempt you to do the jungle?'
'And I went 'There's actually not enough money at ITV to get me to go in that jungle because my parents would disown me'. That for them was the red line. '
'So you won't ever see me munching kangaroo testicles, I'm afraid.'
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here sees a star-studded line-up swap their luxurious lifestyle for Bushtucker trials in the Australian jungle.
The famous faces are put through trials and torment as they battle it out to become Queen or King of the jungle.
Back in 2022 Piers asked for £5million to do the famous TV show fronted by comedy duo Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly.
He was previously asked if he was planning to follow in Matt Hancock 's footsteps who shocked the nation when appeared on the show in 2022.
Piers told The Sun at its Who Cares Wins awards: "I would rather shoot myself slowly with a slow moving bullet that corroded through every bone in my body before it finished me off than go into the jungle with people like Matt Hancock.
"My parents have actually said to me they would put up with anything - and I've put them through a lot - but not the jungle.
"It's a step too far. That's their red line. I'd get disowned."
Piers fuelled rumours he'd finally been persuaded to sign up to the gruelling reality show on X (formerly known as Twitter).
He tweeted: "Like I said, £5million and I'll come and munch kangaroo testicles. Not a penny less."
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