I'm A Celebrity star Fleur East convinced co-star will be crowned king of jungle
Fleur East is praying her friend and colleague Sam Thompson will become the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! king as fans fall in love with him.
The Made In Chelsea heartthrob is currently appearing on the ITV programme and left fans swooning as he made his entrance showing his kind nature. But Fleur, 36, knows all too well what the jungle is like. In 2018, the pop songstress appeared on the show alongside Harry Redknapp, Nick Knowles and James Brittain-McVey before finishing in fourth place.
Speaking exclusively to the Mirror ahead of Hits Radio Live in Birmingham and Manchester, Fleur has shared her support for Sam, 31. She said: "He's my Hits Radio buddy, it's funny, last year when I was on Strictly, he was presenting Hits Live and he was reading my scores out on stage, he was so supportive.
Hits Radio presenter Fleur East has revealed who she wants to be crowned King of the I'm A Celebrity jungle (Getty Images for Bauer Media)
Fleur believes Sam has what it takes to win the show (James Gourley/REX/Shutterstock)"A year later, he's in the jungle and I'm doing Hits Live, so we've switched roles. I'm really supporting Sam and I hope that hope will go away. He's being 100% who he is in there and you can't help but fall in love with him because he's got such an endearing character. He's really funny, really sweet and that's the person that he is. He's very inquisitive, he always wants to know things about people. I think he's going to do really well." So far, viewers have seen Sam lapping up being around JLS member Marvin Humes who even taught the reality star and presenter some of his dance moves.
But one figure in the jungle, Nigel Farage, has ruffled feathers. Viewers have launched a boycott of the programme following the boss's decision to sign Farage up for the programme. But Fleur believes that the controversial decision will have the remaining viewers glued to their screens.
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The songstress believes Nigel Farage will have everybody glued to their screens (James Gourley/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)"Everybody will have their opinions, but we're all going to be glued to the screen," she explained before adding: "When do you ever get to see a politician from any walk of life in that scenario, you just never get to see it. We're all going to be so intrigued. He's eating testicles with YouTuber Nella Rose, he's starting a fire, or standing around a bath with Britney Spears' sister, these scenarios, you just don't get anywhere else
"All opinions aside, I think that is the spectacle of the show, putting people in different industries in this scenario. I mean, we saw his bum the other night! It's fascinating TV." But when Fleur isn't glued to I'm A Celeb, she's getting ready for this weekend's spectacle in Birmingham and Manchester.
Alongside her Hits Radio co-presenters, she will introduce the likes of Rita Ora, Busted and Calum Scott to thousands of fans at Birmingham's Resort World Arena and Manchester's AO Arena. Speaking of the event, the singer-turned-presenter exclaimed: "It's the highlight of The Hits calendar. It's when we all get to come together, we see our favourite artists perform. It's really cool, we've got some amazing people performing, I cannot wait."
Fleur will be presenting Hits Radio Live in both Birmingham and Manchester this weekend (PA)Previously, Fleur performed on the line-up alongside her X Factor co-star Ben Haenow and revealed she hadn't previously thought about going from performing at the event to presenting it. "It's fun because I know exactly what they're experiencing. It's not all the time you get to be on the same bill as everybody from the industry.
"If you're doing festivals, you're separated from everyone, whereas these gigs, backstage, everyone is backstage, you get to chat to everybody else. The fun thing that I like to see is who's going to collaborate from the lineup, a lot of the time they get to meet artists that they maybe haven't had time to talk to. Then you think, 'They could be chatting about getting in the studio and then maybe next year we're gonna get a song from these two!'"
This year, fans will see the likes of Tom Grennan, Anne-Marie, Cian Ducrot, Busted, Calum Scott, Jax Jones and Becky Hil performing for fans in Birmingham, on Friday. While names including Rita Ora, Calum Scott, Cian Ducrot, James Arthur, Lost Frequencies, Busted and Maisie Peters will perform at Manchester's AO Arena on Saturday.
Tickets for Birmingham are available to purchase on Free Hits Radio's website. Whereas tickets for Manchester can be purchased on Ticketmaster.
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