Pat Sharp reveals devious I'm a Celeb masterplan

Pat Sharp reveals devious I'm a Celeb masterplan
Pat Sharp reveals devious I'm a Celeb masterplan (Image credit: ITV / Rex Features)

Self-styled 'panto villain' Pat Sharp claimed his outbursts against contestants in I'm A Celebrity... were all part of a plan to win much-needed food for the camp. The former mullet-headed presenter had blasted Sinitta for 'wimping around' after her poor performances in the bushtucker trials left them hungry. The sharp-tongued Smooth Radio host was promptly voted in to take part in the next trial and told the So Macho singer it had been his 'plan all along' and that was why he had also threatened to steal Lorraine Chase's teddy bear. He said: "I behaved the way I did yesterday because I wanted to get the public to vote for me to do a trial. "I've got a scam going at the moment which is why I went overboard on Tedward, not to make Lorraine cry, I did it to get a go at something, I'm not a nasty person. Don't go on a show and not get involved in it, I want to be on this show, I don't want to sit and watch another task that Sinitta fails, boring." He did not convince everyone, with Coronation Street actor Antony Cotton saying: "I don't quite believe that," and describing Pat as 'the unfunniest man I've ever met'. But even Antony was impressed when Pat came back from the challenge with 11 stars out of a possible 12 after coming face to face with creepy crawlies and lizards along the way. Sharp will have to endure another Bushtucker Trial after he was chosen by the public for the second night in a row. The trial will take place in an empty shack, called the Bushman's Bungalow, deep within the jungle.

Patrick McLennan

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.