Nigel Farage pictured in Australia ahead new series of I'm A Celebrity
12.11.2023 - 13:29
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Nigel Farage has landed at Brisbane airport ahead of a rumoured appearance in this year's I'm A Celebrity.... Get Me Out Of Here! The politician touched down and was photographed making his way through the airport, casually claiming he was in the country to 'surf', before leaving the arrivals lounge – after he was spotted jetting Down Under from Heathrow, the Mirror reports.
Although the disgraced former UKIP leader, 59, was the first famous face to arrive in Brisbane, the full line up now appears to have been revealed and more of the celebrities are expected to jet into Australia in the next 24 hours, with the show starting on November 19.
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Other names though to be in the line up include This Morning's Josie Gibson, 38, Ex-EastEnder Danielle Harold, 31, First Dates star Fred Sirieix, 51, Made In Chelsea's Sam Thompson, 31, and JLS singer Marvin Humes, 38. Speaking at the start of the week, Farage had insisted he was yet to sign his contract just days before he had been due to fly.
At the time he told GB News: "I have an existing Australian visa so if I chose to go there on holiday I could without too much difficulty. I’ve thought about [the offer] hard, for the last ten days or so. It’s quite a big decision and quite an unconventional thing for me to do.
"There is a big, young audience out there who don’t really have anyone that speaks to them, it seems to me, about current affairs and politics in Britain. That’s what tempts me, but I haven’t signed a contract… yet."
Before that, Farage has previously said he has been approached for