Jimmy White - I’m A Celebrity 2009
Sunday, 15th November 2009
Snooker legend Jimmy ‘Whirlwind’ White is planning on using his competitive personality to win the show.
The 47 year-old says: “I’m obviously very competitive when I’m playing snooker so it is a competition so I will try and win, I will try and use a few strategies of, you know, staying composed.
“I shall be going in there to try and win it for sure.”
Jimmy has no idea how he’s going to cope with the great outdoors, though. When his six-year-old son wanted to camp overnight in the garden Jimmy went along with it but soon missed his home comforts.
He says: “It was just horrible – wet, cold, no TV. If it was a choice between a tent and a hotel I’d have a hotel every time.”
The closest he gets to going back to nature at home in Surrey is the local park. The idea of bugs and creepy-crawlies invading his personal space in the jungle makes him squeamish.
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He says: “The worst thing is going to sleep and to think that things can start crawling over you. That terrifies me so I’ll have to face it when it happens.
“Creepy-crawlies, I’m not into that at all. I have fears and phobias of it all; spiders, snakes, rats, I’m terrified of them all. Someone put a snake round my neck once and I totally froze. So I’m not too sure about them. But it’s a team effort…it’s a challenge.”
Tips from his girlfriend
Jimmy knows food will be scarce and is taking tips from his girlfriend to prepare himself for going hungry.
”I love food. My girlfriend does a fast now and again, so a week before I’m going to fast and get used to eating less because apparently you get headaches and a bit light-headed.
“So I’m going to just face a little bit of that before I go in and see how I cope.”
He admits that going without his coffee in the morning could make him grumpy.
“I’ve never really gone without my coffee and all that in the morning, so hopefully by doing this fast I will learn a bit from that.”
Photos: ITV
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