Will Mellor keen on I'm a Celebrity appearance

Will Mellor keen on I'm a Celebrity appearance
Will Mellor keen on I'm a Celebrity appearance (Image credit: PA)

Will Mellor has put his hat in the ring for the next I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, although he's not sure his agent will be too pleased. The former Hollyoaks actor is filming follow-ups to his two new series White Van Man and In With The Flynns, but hopes to find a gap to fly out to Australia for the reality show too. He said: "I'm a Celebrity is my favourite reality show, and I've really enjoyed the most recent one. Every year I say I'd love to do it, which makes my wife laugh because she says I'm rubbish with everything. I hate spiders and camping and stuff like that. Maybe one day." But the Manchester actor also has his reservations about appearing on the jungle show, and says his agent might have too. He said: "The thing that really worries me is I'm not sure how it'd affect my career. I wouldn't want to go on it and get known as a celebrity, and then that ruin my acting work. I'm not sure my agent would be very pleased if I said I was going to do the next one, either!" One thing Will is definitely doing, however, is trying his chances in America. He said: "I'm going with the executive producer of In With The Flynns. She's worked on loads of top American shows such as Roseanne, and we're going to see about maybe working over there."

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.