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Monkey

Michael Buerk appears in highbrow reality show I’m A Celebrity …

Michael Buerk is setting off for the jungle
Michael Buerk is setting off for the jungle. Photograph: ITV/PA

A bunch of bananas to Jack Whitehall for tweeting some Monkey Gold, on the back of news that the BBC presenter Michael Buerk is to appear in the new series I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here.

However earlier this year, as Whitehall points out, Monkey mentioned the former newsreader had done an interview with the Daily Mirror in which he labelled BBC3’s output as being at the “embarrassing end of drivel”, while shows such as Snog, Marry, Avoid? were dismissed as “cutting-edge tripe”.

Is Michael eating his words now? Or maybe something more chewy, as Whitehall tweeted: “Look forward to seeing him eating kangaroo bollocks with Gemma Collins from TOWIE.”

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