Kevin Dundon admits 'talk' about I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here appearance
Celebrity chef Kevin Dundon has revealed there was "talk" he could go into the jungle on I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here – but the star wasn't interested.
The former Dancing With The Stars contestant – who reached last season's quarter finals with his pro dance partner Rebecca Scott – ruled out ever appearing on the hit ITV reality TV show.
'I don't think I would do I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here. I would hate being stuck in a box. I'm so claustrophobic.
'There was talk there a while back. Oh no, no (I wasn't offered). I didn't turn (it) down. There was just talk.'
But Kevin said he surprised himself on Dancing With The Stars – and said the show let viewers see the real him away from the kitchen.
'I don't know. It's like, I never thought I'd do that.
'TV wise, I'd love to do a travel show, like a bit of craic travel show, because I think what Dancing With The Stars did was it showed a different side of me. I was a bit more craic.
'Katherine Lynch and myself did a pilot of doing the south of France with Katherine Lynch and an air fryer. It's a pilot. It's really funny, though, because you can imagine, like we're around the beach with an air fryer between us and an extension lead between us because we need the charge.'
Opening up about being on the RTÉ One show, he said he didn't realise how rubbish of a dancer he was at the start of it.
The 58-year-old said: 'It was like four and a half months of my life. You're just absorbed by it. So, it's like, it's now getting back to normal, getting back into my own routine again.
'We've just started our second series of Under the Grill, our podcast, which is great.
'I did really well. I got (to) the quarter final,' he said, laughing.
'I did get better every week. It wasn't my fault there were two active Olympians participating at the same time.
'The first time I saw myself dance, like on January 4, the day before the show because everyone was telling you, 'you're brilliant and you're great', and then you're in doing the recording in rehearsals and you look back, and you realise that you're sh*te.
'I kind of thought 'this could be a long journey' but I enjoyed every minute of it,' he added.
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