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Singer Simon Webbe has confessed he is frightened about every aspect of the jungle, but not what people think about him.
He says: "I’m afraid of everything to be honest. I’m not ashamed
to say it, maybe when I was younger I would turn around and say, ‘I’m
not afraid of anything’, but I’m a 30-year-old man so I can’t be
bothered with that anymore.
"Anything that crawls, anything that runs on the floor, anything
that slithers, anything that can fall on me and get into little nooks
and crannies, I’m afraid of everything. So I don’t know why I’m going
to the jungle. I don’t like heights, I don’t like water - I don’t swim,
I don’t even swim in the swimming pool, I’m not a very strong swimmer."
"I don’t really care how people find me. I think there will be a
good mixture of people there. I think there will be divas, I think
there’s going to be anti-divas, there’s going to be people that are
going to struggle and there’s probably people that will bully them if
only to take their minds off their own situations. I study human
beings; that’s my job, that’s why I write songs. So for me I’m just an
observer. I’ve been an observer for a long time and I’ll make my mind
up once I get there."
Simon also reveals he’s worried that his friendliness with the
ladies could be misconstrued as flirting on camera. The hunky singer
said he wouldn’t want to upset his girlfriend by flirting with another
girl in the camp.
He says: "I’ve never thought I’m a big flirt. I’ve gone through
years saying to myself, ‘No you’re not, you’re not, you’re not, you’re
not, you’re not’, and people have gone, ‘You are, Si, you are’."
He’s also worried his worst personal habit - of putting his hands down the front of his pants - will offend viewers.
He says: "My most annoying habit, and one that I’ve had since I was
a baby so I can’t help it, is that I put my hands down my front.
Teachers in school used to make me sit on my hands. If I’m chilling
then I just do it. I don’t know where it stems from, whether it’s from
when I was in my mum’s belly; it must be genetic because I really can’t
help it."
The singer says his other biggest fear about the jungle is getting kidnapped by a gorilla.
He says: "I’m scared that a big gorilla is going to come out in the
middle of the night and start kidnapping people, because you’ve seen
those programmes like Lost, those kinds of things don’t go so well with
me.
Simon says he’s going into the jungle to learn more about himself
and has been taking secret advice from previous contestants Myleene
Klass and Antony Costa.
He says: "I think the number one reason is to find a part of myself
and get back to nature where we all come from. I think the whole thing
is the mind over matter thing. I pushed myself into singing when the
people around me were saying, ‘Look you’ve got quite a good voice,
maybe if you worked at it you could do something and have a career’.
"Antony [Costa] gave me some advice although I can’t tell you what
that is. Myleene Klass has given me some sound advice as well. But to
be honest I did think of it as a game show, I’ve got to go in there and
do certain things, I’ve got to do this, that and the other but then I
thought that’s not being me.
"I think this whole programme is about discovering who I am stripped
away from all my comfort zones and I believe that I will cope quite
well."
But he warns fellow campmates that although he sees himself as a simple man, he will be grumpy in a morning.
He also adds that the things he will miss most about home are his family and his mobile.
And he promises his fellow band members that he won’t be dishing the dirt on them while he’s in the jungle.
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