I'm A Celebrity contestant Amir Khan once said the show was for 'has-beens'
The Olympic boxer made the comments on Twitter in 2012
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Your support makes all the difference.I’m a Celebrity has taken the nation by storm, Stanley Johnson’s bumbling antics enthralling viewers while Jack Meynard’s departure shocks.
One of the more bizarre stories to have come from the jungle actually concerns a Tweet, sent by current contestant Amir Khan before heading to Australia.
Asked during a Twitter Q&A whether he would ever appear on the ITV programme, the Olympic boxer replied: "No its for has beens.” After fans noticed the Tweet the message was deleted.
Khan has also been accused of not actually being afraid of snakes despite saying so on the show. During one challenge, the boxer reached into a hole to retrieve a card-key, pulling out what he believed to be a rope, instead ending up gripping onto a python.
"I said I was scared of snakes. I thought you'd go easy on me!" the boxer apparently said, confessing to hosts Ant and Dec: “I don’t like snakes or spiders.” However, a picture has since emerged online of Khan posing with a snake.
Khan has seem surprisingly unprepared for the show, admitting beforehand about not knowing about the Bushtucker trial — one of the show’s main features.
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