Matt Hancock is unlikely to avoid some awkward moments even when he is in the I’m A Celeb camp and away from the backlash back home…
As a newsreader and Loose Women host Charlene White is used to having strong opinions and asking some difficult questions.
And although she doesn’t know it yet, a big news moment may be just around the corner in the I’m A Celebrity camp.
Matt Hancock is unlikely to avoid some awkward moments even when he is in camp and away from the backlash back home – as Charlene says she will “constantly ask questions” in camp to all the contestants meaning there is nowhere to hide.
Although she does not know who all her campmates are yet, Charlene said: “I have got a natural curiosity for people so it doesn’t matter who I meet on a daily basis it could be, I don’t know the security that has been working on this show, or people I bump into on the street, I am constantly asking questions because I love to learn about people.
Charlene White is set to grill Matt Hancock in the jungle (
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“I think that you can learn a lot about life by asking questions and I think there is too much of a temptation for people to not be interested in other human beings, whereas I am of the opinion like ‘oh my God there is like a million stories in each and every one of us’ why do you not want to find out more about another person.”
Asked what the worst type of character in camp could be, she said: “Oh there isn’t a worst character. Part of the work that I do as a journalist I meet fascinating people, interesting people and difficult people every single day.
Charlene arrived in Brisbane Airport earlier this week (
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“Working on Loose we have such a plethora of personalities which is incredible. I think luckily my strength is that I have to work with different characters on a daily basis and not a lot fazes me to be honest. So I don’t really think there is a worst type of character, that is unless it was someone that wasn’t particularly that fussed by hygiene. I think that probably goes back to my Carribean roots and having grown up in a Church where we were taught that cleanliness is next to godliness.”
Charlene took weeks to decide whether to do the show as it meant leaving her children behind for a month, somethng she had never done before.
She is used to presenting Loose Women and ITV News (
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Close to tears, she said: “I have been trying really hard not to look at their pictures, because I know that it will get me all emotional. I miss them massively but as long as I don’t see pictures of them I can sort of hold on to some semblance of sanity but then I saw pictures of them yesterday in their Halloween outfits and I had a good old cry because they both looked really beautiful and really happy and I miss them tons.
“It wasn’t always plain sailing with both of those births and I think many women will be able to understand and I think there is an element of me feeling that if I can get through two births and survive and live to tell the tale and able to carry on with life once I have healed that is phenomenal then I think you get into you forties and you almost don’t feel like you need to challenge yourself anymore whereas I see this as being an opportunity to give myself something where I am being challenged.”
Charlene says onen reason for signing up for the show was “you get into your forties and you don’t necessarily give yourself challenges anymore”.
Charlene is swapping the studio for the jungle
She will be missing her children during her I’m A Celeb stint (
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But after this huge challenge she says she will be back on Loose Women and the news within a few days.
And she can’t wait to see news updates every few minutes again, after struggling without her phone and rolling news.
She said: “It is torture! It is aboslute torture the first thing I do when I wake up at home is I roll over I go through all the news websites, my apps, through all the socials, to catch up on what news has happened overnight, what the top stories are all of that stuff so to not have had that and know that I am not going to have that for another few weeks is honestly torture and I think we all know just how fast paced the news has been over the last few years let alone the last few months.
So I honestly have no idea what sort of especially political environment I’ll be going back home to because it could all be all change by the time I get back.”
Depending on what questions she asks, Charlene could even help speak debate in the political environment.
