Former EastEnders star Jake Wood has given the biggest hint yet that he will take part in this year's I'm A Celebrity.... Get Me Out Of Here!
The 49-year-old actor, who left his role as Max Branning in the BBC soap earlier this year, appeared on Good Morning Britain on Wednesday to discuss his new play 2:22 – A Ghost Story.
Jake will star alongside Lily Allen in her first ever acting role in the West End play, which will be shown at the Noel Coward Theatre in London.
But GMB hosts Kate Garraway and Ben Shephard were keen to ask Jake about another possible job that he might undertake this year.
"Just quickly Jake, will you be finished in time to go to the jungle if the call comes in?" dad-of-two Ben asked.
Jake quickly replied: "Yes, I finish in mid October and I've made no secret about it, I'd love to do the jungle. We were talking about it in the break, Kate."
"I say give it a go," Kate encouraged him following her appearance on the ITV show back in 2019.
"We'd love to see you out there!" Ben then added as Jake grinned.
"Either Australia or Wales?" Ben then probed, as Jake replied: "Either or, bring it on!"
Speaking about working alongside former pop star Lily, Jake went on to say: "I’m excited for her to do it. she’s doing an amazing job so far."
He continued: "Hopefully, if we do it right it will be a wonderful spooky night in the theatre. There are certain things that happen during the show, I’m not going to give too much away, we’ve had specialists in, magic people."
Jake added: "We’ve been told that the Noel Coward Theatre is haunted," before saying it's been such a "delight" to return to the stage.
"I started off in doing lots of theatre, so it's a real delight for me to be back, probably 18 years since I've been on the stage," he explained.
"I'd forgotten how much I'd actually enjoy the process actually. So much of the job of an actor is the rehearsals and exploring the script and characters, and of course, on a soap or EastEnders you don't get any time to rehearse.
"I've not done that for so many years so I'm loving this period, we're still in the rehearsal room, we open in about two weeks but the whole process from beginning to end has been amazing and yeah, great cast and Lily Allen for me was really exciting."
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.
