I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! star Babatunde Aléshé says jungle hunger won't bother him after a tough childhood in Tottenham.
The Celebrity Gogglebox star, 36, is not fazed by the prospect of getting 'hangry' in camp.
He said: "I grew up in Tottenham man, so really I lived a struggled life, do you know what I mean? So getting hangry I kind of know how to deal with.
"I am not here to tell everybody like a sob story about my whole childhood, man that is the past. What I am saying in terms of that is that I have been through that, so you know I know I can kind of deal with going hungry, things like that."
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The comedian also insists he doesn't feel pressure to be the funny man in camp despite being a stand up.
He said: "No way, if I don’t bust one joke whilst in there, that is amazing to me man! Nor I am not going to put that pressure on myself.
"I am not going to let no one, even the audience, put that kind of pressure on me."
He added: "I am not on stage while I am in camp so if people are like, 'well he isn’t funny', it’s like well come and see me when I am actually performing and then you will see that funny side but, nah, I am not putting that pressure on myself, no."
Babatunde is a father-of-one to Judah and is married to his Jamaican wife Leonie Aléshé.
On leaving them back in the UK to head to Australia, he said: "It was emotional in terms of this is going to be the longest I have been away from her, but it wasn’t as emotional as with my son as she understands what I am going to do."
Speaking about his son, he added: "I told him I was going to be away for a month and, you know, he cried, but the funniest thing is he doesn’t really understand time length, he doesn’t really understand what a month is really so he doesn't feel it."
Babatunde has taken a break from sitting alongside Mo Gilligan on the sofa to crack jokes in the Australian outback.
But one thing he doesn't have time for in the jungle is petty arguments.
He said: "I haven’t got time for arguments. I know seeing me freaking out every five minutes will be entertaining for everyone, but this will be a first-time experience for all of us and I think my role will be as a tension breaker.
"We don’t need to be bickering behind each other’s backs. We are all in the same boat together."
* I'm A Celebrity starts on Sunday night on ITV at 9pm
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