Colin McAllister - I’m A Celebrity 2009
Sunday, 15th November 2009
Design guru Colin McAllister is dreading the boredom setting in once he is deprived of all his gadgets in the outback.
He says: “I might be bored, because I’m a 21st century guy. I rely on the telephone and television, my computer.
“We’re not going to have any of those things, which sounds fantastic but only if there’s something to replace them with. So as soon as I put all those technological things to one side I think, ‘Ok, I can sit and read a book’. But you don’t get a book in the jungle.”
He and partner Justin Ryan are the first celebrity couple to go into camp together.
“Hopefully there’s a worth to that and the viewers won’t think, ‘Let’s split them up,’ because surely the experiment is about how a couple will actually behave and how they will interact with all the other people."
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“Maybe there will be a degree of resentment from the others and that’s something we’ve thought about.
“We’re not the Waltons or The Osmonds – gushy-gushy and smiley-smiley. But we are a really happy couple, very tightly linked, and we do come across as being one entity.
“We have only one mobile phone. We don’t spend any time apart. So I hope we give the viewers a couple’s eye view.
Daredevil
Colin admits he is a bit of a daredevil on the quiet. “I’ve abseiled down the headquarters of the Whyte and Mackay. That was really, really frightening, standing on the edge of a skyscraper and suddenly you have to lean back into oblivion.
“I think it took me 20 minutes to get into position and the instructor probably still has bruises from where I wouldn’t let go of him.”
His pet hate in other people is selfishness. “I like people who can open up and have good conversations. I don’t like really thick people.
“I like people who have a passion for life and people who don’t take things for granted. Some are great, some aren’t, you can’t appeal to everyone all of the time so why try?”
Nice attitude Col!
Photos: ITV
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