Tony Blackburn didn't expect 'I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!' to have such longevity as he looks back on his time as part of the original 'I'm A Celeb' lineup
Tony Blackburn didn't expect 'I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!' to have such longevity. The 80-year-old DJ won the first series of the ITV1 jungle reality show when it aired in 2002 but didn't think it would still be on screen more than two decades later and admitted he "wouldn't like" to do it now because of the challenges given to famous faces. Speaking on BBC Breakfast, he said: "I thought it was a really good show 21 years ago. It's changed a lot now, it's much more...some of the trials are awful – I wouldn't like to do it now. I thought it would last quite a long time, I'm not sure about 21 years but it still gets a really big audience and, of course, I tune in for [hosts] Ant and Dec because they're so good. "I just love… (more)