George Hamilton - I’m A Celebrity 2009
Sunday, 15th November 2009
Perma-tanned actor George Hamilton says he can’t possibly keep up his debonair looks in the jungle, so he went to the barber’s and demanded a crew cut in preparation.
The 70 year-old - known for his immaculate appearance - says: “I know everyone is expecting me to turn up in a tuxedo and look all dashing but that's over with. Before I left I went to a barber and had a seven dollar military haircut.
“There's no way I could have kept up my usual appearance in the jungle, at night my hair is woven by angels at home, so I had to have it shaved off. It was cut with a razor and now it looks like it has had Viagra, it is all standing on end.”
George adds that, ideally, he would like to sneak a silk robe, a bottle of martini, a stuntman and a make-up man into camp with him.
He says: “I’m thinking of sneaking a silk robe in and a martini. If the silk robe is snake coloured, maybe the snakes will just pass on by me and look for another campmate instead.
“I'm also planning to take a stunt double and a make-up man. The stunt double can do all the hard stuff for me and then the make-up man can touch me up at the end of the day to make sure I'm looking alright.”
Worried about everything
George says he is worried about everything the jungle will throw at him, but is planning to rise to the challenge.
He says: “I have watched the show in America and in England, but I don't want to look again too closely as it might put me off.
“I'm not going to say that I'm going to win, I'm not that kind of person, and I'm afraid of it all. I think anybody would be, unless you're a zookeeper, and then maybe you would feel at home, but I have not got it in my nature.
I mean, even the flies out here are so big they can take passengers, I saw one a second ago that had a saddle on it.”
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In preparation for the show, George has been sleeping on the floor in his hotel room.
He says: “The hotel is torture – why would I order room service and live in luxury, only to have it taken away? That would be torture. So I decided that I was going to try to prepare myself, so I slept on the floor in the corner and looked out for any creepy crawlies or spiders to keep me company.
“And I ate beans and rice, and then beans and rice for my breakfast and then beans and beans, and then more beans.
“I thought, ‘There's no point having champagne,’ I wanted something from a David Copperfield novel, some gruel, something really sickening to prepare me. I reckon I've got a head start on the others now I've done that.”
George says he would like to see some Hollywood A-listers in the jungle with him and that he didn’t tell his celebrity friends what he was doing.
He said: “I would like to see Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in jungle, after seeing her in the film Australia I think she would be brilliant and would definitely win.
“None of my celebrity friends will be watching as they currently think I'm on a yacht in the South of France with a silk robe on and a glass of champagne in my hand, surrounded by beautiful women.”
Photos: ITV
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