{"id":304680,"date":"2026-01-26T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/304680\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:04:08","slug":"roy-keane-horrified-by-irish-accent-during-ant-decs-im-a-celeb-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/304680\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Keane Horrified By Irish Accent During Ant &#038; Dec&#8217;s &#8216;I&#8217;m A Celeb&#8217; Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to dream I&#8217;m A Celeb guests, it&#8217;s fair to say that Roy Keane tops many people&#8217;s lists when it comes to names they would like to see on the show.<\/p>\n<p>The Cork man would be a producer&#8217;s dream in the jungle. Not only is he hugely entertaining, but it seems almost inevitable that he would fall out with some of his fellow campmates at some point.<\/p>\n<p>Keane has reportedly received offers to appear on the show on a number of occasions, although he has yet to seriously consider doing so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/jamie-carragher-keith-andrews-brentford-648346\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie Carragher Taken Aback By One Keith Andrews Skill During Brentford Tenure<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/caoimhin-kelleher-rory-mcilroy-ireland-hungary-648286\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher Laughs Off Rory McIlroy Comparison About Hungary Winner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Roy Keane Horrified By Irish Accent In Ant &amp; Dec&#8217;s &#8216;I&#8217;m A Celeb&#8217; Plea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n        Recommended\n    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a :href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.url\" :title=\"article.title\" :aria-label=\"article.title\" class=\"not-prose col-span-2 md:col-span-1 ga-event\" data-category=\"Recommended Article Tracker\" data-action=\"click\" :data-label=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.url\" :data-value=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.url\"><\/p>\n<p>                                            <img class=\"aspect-video\" width=\"130\" height=\"73\" :src=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.image\" :alt=\"'Image for: ' + article.title\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ant &amp; Dec were guests on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ECebcE6B_NU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stick to Football<\/a> this week, with the subject of Roy Keane appearing on their flagship show inevitably being raised.<\/p>\n<p>Keane didn&#8217;t completely shoot down the idea, although it seems rather unlikely. He was also far from impressed with Dec&#8217;s attempt at an Irish accent that soon followed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Dream on lads!&#8221; \ud83d\udcad<\/p>\n<p>Roy in the jungle\u2026 we\u2019re not giving up hope! \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DNLuLDdwMY\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/DNLuLDdwMY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Overlap (@WeAreTheOverlap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreTheOverlap\/status\/2015728385071202314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dream on lads, dream on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Why do you think it&#8217;s always about numbers? Everyone thinks it&#8217;s about numbers?<\/p>\n<p>(He&#8217;s had offers) a couple of times, a couple of times yeah.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apart from the fairly spot on use of the word &#8216;baby&#8217;, that Irish accent was absolutely dire.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen a number of celebrities from Ireland appear in the Australian jungle down through the years, but there is no doubt that Roy Keane would be the most box office of the bunch.<\/p>\n<p>His comments here suggest that an appearance on the show is not completely out of the question. In saying that, while he suggests it is not all about money, it would probably take a huge offer from ITV bosses in order to convince him to finally sign on the dotted line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/roy-keane-arsenal-man-united-loss-648371\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Keane Had Withering Take On Arsenal&#8217;s Mental Weakness After Man United Loss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to dream I&#8217;m A Celeb guests, it&#8217;s fair to say that Roy Keane tops many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,5788],"class_list":{"0":"post-304680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-roy-keane"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115962489464102423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}