Nigel Farage 'offered £250,000 to appear in I'm A Celebrity...'

Farage: Heading to the jungle?
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Mark Chandler9 July 2016

Nigel Farage has been reportedly been offered £250,000 to be dropped in the jungle for the next series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!

Mr Farage, who announced this week he was stepping down as Ukip leader after the Brexit vote, has been offered the huge sum this week, the Mirror reports.

A source told the paper: “It would be TV gold to see Farage chomping on kangaroo anus or a turkey testicle in a Bushtucker trial.”

If confirmed, the 52-year-old would be the latest in a string of politicians who have undergone the show’s dreaded trials.

Previous contestants included Lembit Opik, Edwina Currie and Nadine Dorries, along with ex-Ukip politician Robert Kilroy Silk.

The Mirror’s source said: “This year, everyone is talking about Brexit , so producers are desperate to snare one of the biggest names from the Leave campaign for the jungle to make it the most talked about series yet.

“Farage is a win with British voters – so producers think viewers would be keen to pick up the phone and nominate him to be covered in cockroaches or fish guts.”

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