Sitting down with Kerri-Anne Kennerley a week before she was whisked away to South Africa, we’re quick to express our disbelief that the queen of Australian daytime TV is going on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!.
“Yes, well, I would have bet money on it that we wouldn’t be having this chat,” she laughs. “They’ve asked me every year for 12 years, and I was never going to do it, but timing is a beautiful thing,” she adds.
And that timing certainly came sat down with the Australian TV legend and it was still, even then, a firm “no” “People don’t need to see that side of me,” she said at the time.