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Jasmine Allday

Junior Andre wants to do I'm A Celebrity after parents met on show 17 years ago

His parents Katie Price and Peter Andre famously met on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here nearly 17 years ago.

And now their son Junior, 16, would love to follow in his parents' footsteps with a stint on the ITV show.

Junior would be overjoyed to get the opportunity to appear on the jungle show where his parents found love over their tins of rice and beans.

However, he has completely ruled himself out of going on dating show Love Island as he confessed he would be "embarrassed" about his parents watching him try and find love in the Spanish villa.

"I love the people on Love Island and I’m not mocking them, but I think I would feel too embarrassed about my parents watching me. I'd actually love to do I'm A Celebrity if I got the opportunity," he told OK! magazine.

Katie recently opened up about her jungle romance with Pete, with the former spouses being the only couple on the show that went on to have children together. As well as Junior, they also share daughter Princess, 13.

Speaking on I’m A Celebrity: A Jungle Story last year, she said: "I was just fixated on Pete. People saw our relationship develop. Having Pete there in the jungle did make it easier because you’d fall asleep thinking of him and wake up seeing him there."

Katie and Peter met in 2004 on the reality show (Photo by ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

"If you haven’t clicked with someone in there, I think it’s quite hard and lonely. It was a proper love story and I think me and Pete are the only ones who had kids come out of it," she added.

Katie has maintained she doesn't know why she split from Peter.

"Yeah, I'd love to know [why we split] - I wanna know. I never did anything wrong," she said earlier this year.

They soon found love on the programme and had Junior, 16, and Princess, 13, together (Cameron Laird/REX/Shutterstock)

In the frank discussion on Dame Esther Ranzen and Adrian Mills' That's After Life podcast, the 80-year-old television presenter said how she felt the show was "quite damaging" to Katie's public persona.

"That reality show was quite damaging. It got into your relationship and it made you look so dominant and it made him look so gentle," Esther said.

"And you know how it is with television – the viewers always like the underdog – and it began to look as if Pete was in love with you and trying to do what you wanted and nothing was quite right for you."

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