Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly revealed that the late Keith Chegwin was an I’m A Superstar…Get Me Out Of Right here! stand-in however he by no means made the precise present.
Talking within the I’m A Celeb particular, A Jungle Story on Sunday night time, the comedy duo had been reminiscing about their most memorable moments from the previous 18 years.
The present seemed again in any respect the earlier winners in addition to a number of the programme’s funniest highlights.
Through the two-hour particular, Ant and Dec examined their recollections to see whether or not they might keep in mind the celeb line-up from the first-ever sequence.
They recalled the likes of Uri Geller, Rhona Cameron, Darren Day and the late Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, who completed second that yr.
The hosts then went on to speak about Keith, who jetted out to Australia in 2002, as a stand-in campmate.
Ant and Dec reminisced concerning the previous 18 years (Image: ITV/REX)
‘We had stand-bys in these days, Keith Chegwin, simply in case anyone pulled out,’ Ant started.
‘And he by no means acquired on,’ Dec continued.
Keith Chegwin died in 2017 (Image: PA)
Ant added: ‘He by no means acquired on, he simply hung across the lodge together with his camcorder filming the solid, poor Keith Chegwin.’
Keith tragically died in 2017 following a ‘long-term battle with a progressive lung condition’, his household stated.
The star died in a hospice round midnight final night time surrounded by his spouse and two kids.
Earlier than his loss of life, Keith appeared on Superstar Huge Brother and Ricky Gervais’ sitcom Life’s Too Brief again in 2015, having been in poor health across the previous six months.
He turned a family title presenting programmes like Multi-Colored Swap Store, Cheggers Performs Pop and Saturday Superstore all through the Seventies and 80s.
Keith’s profession endured a second wave within the early 90s, presenting Down Your Doorstep on The Huge Breakfast, earlier than presenting a revived model of It’s A Knockout on Channel 5.
I’m A Superstar begins November 15 at 9pm on ITV.
