{"id":10789,"date":"2025-04-11T12:49:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10789\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T12:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:49:24","slug":"phil-taylor-open-to-joining-im-a-celebrity-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10789\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Taylor open to joining I&#8217;m a Celebrity cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Darts legend Phil Taylor has admitted he would love the chance to join TV show I&#8217;m A Celebrity&#8230; Get Me Out Of Here &#8211; because he would not be able to shut up.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor is renowned as the best darts player of all time, winning an incredible 16 World Darts Championships.<\/p>\n<p>It sees The Power hold the record for most world championship titles &#8211; with Michael van Gerwen holding the second-most with three.<\/p>\n<p>Since retiring, Taylor enjoys a more simple life &#8211; residing in Staffordshire and largely staying away from darts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"4cb3e\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"da0532f16a279955200b5e4c308886a8\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%205184%203456'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/phil-taylor.jpg\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" alt=\"Phil Taylor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Phil Taylor might be readying himself to make an appearance in the jungle<\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n<p>But the 64-year-old might be ready to turn in his cosy lifestyle and jump into the jungle after being asked if he was up for joining next year&#8217;s cast of I&#8217;m A Celebrity&#8230; Get Me Out Of Here!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olbg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">OLBG<\/a>, Taylor said: &#8220;Yeah, I\u2019d be open to it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve got to talk, obviously. But Bob (his manager) will sort all that out. I mean I don\u2019t find any challenges in there for what I couldn\u2019t do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know they\u2019re not going to put anything in there that\u2019s going to hurt you. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know you can get bitten, and something can go up your nose or whatever but we\u2019ll just have to see. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you know what I mean? It would be a challenge and something I\u2019ve never done before. I would quite enjoy it I think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>JUST IN: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/sport\/football\/mohamed-salah-new-liverpool-contract\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohamed Salah closing in on new Liverpool contract<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"97115\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"3b94bde9e46523e2cb4c4dbaea792f7a\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%202497%203128'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744375763_424_phil-taylor.jpg\" width=\"2497\" height=\"3128\" alt=\"Phil Taylor\"\/>Phil Taylor dominated darts during his playing daysPA<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean I like how the celebrities get a little bit heated. Because they&#8217;re hungry living off rice and beans so, I like all that kind of thing. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The challenges I enjoy. That\u2019s always interesting and you get different characters as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They\u2019ve always got to throw someone in the mix that\u2019s going to irritate people. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So that\u2019d be a challenge for me as well because I can\u2019t keep my mouth shut.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LATEST SPORTS NEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"7c8af\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"8d06b763792710f9b8acbc1d306c10f4\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%205472%203648'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/phil-taylor-has-given-his-support-to-luke-littler.jpg\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" alt=\"Phil Taylor has given his support to Luke Littler\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Phil Taylor admitted he loves it when the celebrities get heated<\/p>\n<p>GETTY<\/p>\n<p>Taylor had previously admitted that he would be keen on joining the ITV show when speaking in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I go walking around Hanley, it can&#8217;t be any worse than that,&#8221; he joked at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spiders I might be a bit dodgy with, I don&#8217;t like spiders.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darts legend Phil Taylor has admitted he would love the chance to join TV show I&#8217;m A Celebrity&#8230;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,4781,7408,77,208,93,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-10789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-darts","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-itv","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114319416574032138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}