In 2007, RTE launched their own version of I’m A Celebrity – putting eight Irish celebs through their paces in the wilds of Galway.
Aidan Power and Anna Nolan hosted this regional reality TV show in aid of People in Need.
The late Fair City actor Alan O'Neill and model Katy French were both part of the line-up - Katy taking part just two months before her death in December 2007.
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Daithi O Se, Michelle de Bruin, Victoria Mary Clarke, Tony Kenny, Mickey Joe Harte, and Michael Healy-Rae were the remaining six celebrities who had to fend for themselves in the wilds of rural Connemara.
Aidan was responsible for covering the live shows from camp, recapping the trials of the day and speaking with the on-site wilderness expert, Jamie Young.
Anna found herself based in camp, helping the celebrities make it through a week of tough challenges.
The show and its contestants were all working to raise thousands of Euro for RTE's People in Need Telethon.
After seven days being put through their paces, Independent politician Michael Healy-Rae reigned supreme and was crowned The Wild Man of the West after the final three finalists arrived back in Westport for the results show.
However, four years later, news broke that of the votes cast in support of Healy-Rae, thousands of them were made from a phone inside Leinster House.
In 2011, it was revealed that over 3,600 calls were made in support of Michael Healy-Rae from a phone line within the Oireachtas.
The phone calls came at a cost of €2,639 to the taxpayer for the premium line used to make the calls.
Reports said the calls were all made over a 31-hour period, suggesting that whoever made the call was simply redialling for hours on end.
Healy-Rae continued to deny that he had anything to do with the calls but did eventually agree to pay the money back.
So where are the celebrities now?
Daithi O Se
Daithi O Se landed a gig co presenting the afternoon show Today on RTÉ One with Maura Derrane in 2012 and the Cork based programme has gone from strength to strength. Daithi continues to entertain us every year hosting the Rose of Tralee.
Michelle (Smith) de Bruin
Michelle Smith (de Bruin) was the first Irish woman to win an Olympic gold medal for Ireland at Atlanta 1996 - but her impressive victory was shrouded by suspicions of cheating. Now, she no longer swims and works as a barrister.
Victoria Mary Clarke
Victoria Mary Clarke left the RTÉ series before the first public vote. She quit after a row over toilet facilities and contraband chocolate bars. Journalist Victoria went on to marry her long-term love and Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan in 2018 in Copenhagen. She recently curated Shane’s artbook launch in both Dublin and London, which saw Kate Moss and Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams in attendance.
Tony Kenny
Showband legend Tony went to dizzying heights on the show when he abseiled across a cliff as part of the show. He continues to live in Dublin and continues to release recordings in a variety of genres, always making each song his own.
Mickey Joe Harte
Mickey Joe has popped up on our TV screens plenty of times over the years. After appearing on Celebrities Go Wild, he was Brian Ormond's best man to his wedding to Pippa O'Connor in 2011, he also appeared in their reality show Brian and Pippa get Married, which documented the lead-up to their beautiful Wicklow wedding.
Since bursting on to the entertainment scene, Mickey Joe has become a grandad.His daughter Kayleigh welcomed a baby girl named Aria back in 2019, making him a grandad at the age of 45 - something he previously admitted felt "strange".Mickey Joe is also dad to three other children and has a wife named Louise.
Michael Healy-Rae
The Independent politician has been a TD for the Kerry constituency since 2016, and previously from 2011 to 2016 for the Kerry South constituency. He previously served as Chair of the Committee on European Union Affairs from 2016 to 2020.
Alan O'Neill
Alan was best-known for his role as Keith McGrath in Fair City, which he played between 2006 and 2012. He then went on to star as Hugh in the American crime drama Sons of Anarchy. In 2018, the Fair City actor was found dead after a fall in his home in California, aged 47.
His body was discovered in the hallway of his girlfriend’s apartment in Toluca Lake, California.
Katy French
In the space of less than two years, Katy had become one of Ireland's best-known models and socialites.
She collapsed at a friend's house on 2 December 2007 and died on 6 December. Her cause of death was given as hypoxic ischemic brain injury caused by cocaine and ephedrine.
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