{"id":581665,"date":"2025-11-20T02:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/581665\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T02:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:43:15","slug":"tom-read-wilson-shares-real-reason-why-he-signed-up-for-itv-im-a-celebrity-after-late-arrival-bombshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/581665\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Read Wilson shares real reason why he signed up for ITV I&#8217;m A Celebrity after late arrival bombshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Read Wilson has joined Vogue Williams as the two late arrivals to the I&#8217;m A Celebrity&#8230;Get Me Out of Here! camp.<\/p>\n<p>The duo will join the 10 celebrities already adjusting to jungle life Down Under as they hope to be crowned King or Queen of the Jungle. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Read Wilson is no stranger to the world of reality TV, having shot to fame in Channel 4&#8217;s Celebs Go Dating, and has appeared on a wide range of celebrity editions of some of the nation&#8217;s best-loved shows, such as Mastermind, The Wheel, Tipping Point, House of Games, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;m A Celebrity promises to be a task like none other before for the 39-year-old, and although he&#8217;s admittedly &#8220;terrified&#8221;, Mr Read Wilson has revealed it&#8217;s his fear that actually prompted him to say yes to the opportunity. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"e9166\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"1350d4ab9904a27fe7a0b88086a6a561\" 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%208206%206625'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/itv-i-m-a-celebrity-tom-read-wilson.jpg\" width=\"8206\" height=\"6625\" alt=\"ITV I'm A Celebrity: Tom Read Wilson\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ITV I&#8217;m A Celebrity: Tom Read Wilson is one of two late arrivals <\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p> ITV<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My first thought when they approached me about taking part was abject terror,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;But I have got a very strict rule in life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the only reason that you don\u2019t want to do it is fear, you must do it, whatever it is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m fearful as a porcupine and I am very nervous that my grey cells won\u2019t dance properly in camp, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At home, I do a cryptic crossword every day, I always have a book on the go and I am a bit worried that my frontal lobes will drop off if I don\u2019t have a lubricant for it. I can be vague at times and I don\u2019t want to scatter brain cells over the camp!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"274e2\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"1de43bc6dcdca4c1ead45839e5cbdb0e\" 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%203413%204543'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tom-read-wilson.jpg\" width=\"3413\" height=\"4543\" alt=\"Tom Read Wilson\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tom Read Wilson shot to fame on Celebs Go Dating <\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p> PA<\/p>\n<p>His approach to overcoming challenges, no matter how anxiety-inducing, has also shaped Mr Read Wilson&#8217;s motto in life. &#8220;My mantra is you must do it in spite of,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s the unknown and things that I haven\u2019t been nose to nose with that terrify me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It augments in your mind\u2019s eye if you haven\u2019t had an experience of something. In the case of a rodent, that augments hugely in a mind\u2019s eye as I have never been nose-to-nose with one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to what he expects from life in the jungle, Mr Read Wilson isn&#8217;t going in naive to its obstacles. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"b7b47\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"64b2413f5f2787bd305060f743e58ada\" 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%201245%20700'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tom-read-wilson-and-vogue-williams.jpg\" width=\"1245\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Tom Read Wilson and Vogue Williams\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tom Read Wilson and Vogue Williams complete this year&#8217;s I&#8217;m A Celebrity cast <\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p> ITV<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Socialising is the aspect I am most excited about,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;My favourite thing about being alive is meeting people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I am sure I am going to learn new things about myself because of the degree of socialisation. I live alone and it will be very different for me in a myriad way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, historically my background is the theatre and I spend bags of time with them (actors), but I have never done it around the clock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the food? \u201cI feel as though you might want any protein when you are that hungry. If all you have been eating is rice and somebody presented any protein, even if it were testicles, I think you would digest it rapaciously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"a94ab\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"e7db9f225b2f4ac3f7efa936fa578af9\" 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%202000%201500'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/vogue-williams.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Vogue Williams\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Vogue Williams is the other late arrival<\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p> GETTY<\/p>\n<p>Mr Read Wilson will be joining a series that has already had more than its fair share of talking points just a few days after its premiere on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/celebrity\/kelly-osbourne-brother-jack-ozzy-death-crying-im-a-celebrity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Osbourne left fans emotional<\/a> as he confided in his campmate, Lisa Riley, about the death of his father and rock music legend, Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Read Wilson has joined Vogue Williams as the two late arrivals to the I&#8217;m A Celebrity&#8230;Get Me&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,4781,77,1459,208,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-581665","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-entertainment","11":"tag-im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here","12":"tag-itv","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115579729075110504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581665","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=581665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}