Brigitte Nielsen is up for I'm a Celebrity

Brigitte Nielsen is up for I'm a Celebrity
Brigitte Nielsen is up for I'm a Celebrity (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Brigitte Nielsen has revealed she would like to join I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! The Danish actress, who is Sylvester Stallone's ex-wife, has previously won the German edition of the show, but is already lining up a return to the Australian jungle. "The UK show has asked me if I will join their camp this year. I've said I'm ready for it," she told the Daily Star. Brigitte, who has acted in Rocky IV and Beverly Hills Cops 2, is no stranger to reality TV after appearing on Celebrity Big Brother in 2005. The 48-year-old has also taken part in the French version of The Farm, the Italian edition of The Mole, the Danish Big Brother and Come Dine With Me, and Germany's Dancing With The Stars. A show source said: "She makes great television so we decided to snap her up for the UK version of I'm A Celebrity... before she got another offer. Even though she has done the jungle show for Germany, she won't have an unfair advantage over her new camp mates. "The trials and challenges will be different," they added. The new series of I'm A Celebrity..., which will mark its 10th year anniversary this year, will be on screens in November.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.