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Huge Brit pop star in final talks for I’m A Celebrity to replace Tommy Fury as jungle hunk
The Sun recently revealed one star has secured the show's highest ever fee to take part this year
MCFLY singer Danny Jones is set to join I’m A Celebrity — and he’ll be hoping for his bandmates’ luck in the jungle.
The group’s bassist Dougie Poynter won the show in 2011 — and nine years later Giovanna Fletcher, wife of singer Tom, did the same.
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Danny, 38, is also considered a rising star on ITV as he's now one of the mentors on their Saturday night talent show, The Voice, along with bandmate Tom.
A jungle insider said: "As well as bringing some of the star appeal of the group with him, he'll be supplying some serious guy candy for the campmates and viewers at home.
"All the McFly guys are gym fanatics and Danny in particular has a great physique - which he's bound to show off in the jungle.
"He'll be keeping up with the proud tradition of I'm A Celebrity hunks who've been on the show over the years including Owen Warner and Joel Dommett.
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"And he'll fill the jungle hunk gap left by Tommy Fury after he declined the opportunity earlier this month."
Bolton-born Danny married model and former Miss England, Georgia Horsley, in 2014 and they have a six year old son.
As well as being a mentor on The Voice he also won this year's series of The Masked Singer disguised as “Piranha”.
Danny is on a particular high this year as McFly are celebrating the 21st anniversary of their debut single, Five Colours in Her Hair.
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The hit and its follow up, Obviously, topped the charts, making McFly one of the hottest boybands of the Noughties.
After recording their fifth studio album in 2010, Dougie, 36, went into I’m a Celebrity and won over campmates and viewers with his cheeky charm.
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The band then went on a three-year hiatus in 2016, before Tom’s wife Giovanna emerged as the surprise Jungle Queen of 2020.
The Sun recently revealed wag Coleen Rooney has signed up for the new series - securing the biggest deal in the show's history.
Coleen's fee is understood to be way beyond Nigel Farage’s £1.5million last year.
This year’s I’m A Celebrity starts on November 16.
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