The Masked Singer host is taking over internet hosting duties for brand-new jungle spin-off sequence I’m A Movie star…Unpacked – and he’s bringing his spouse, Hannah Cooper and their son alongside

Nearly a decade on from dealing with his personal ugly Bushtucker Trials, comic and presenter Joel Dommett is heading again to the jungle – however this time, he says, with a word of reduction, he gained’t be the one consuming bizarre bugs. The Masked Singer host is taking over internet hosting duties for brand-new jungle spin-off sequence I’m A Movie star…Unpacked – and as he tells OK! Journal, he’s bringing his spouse, mannequin Hannah Cooper, 36, and their two-year-old alongside for the experience.

The couple welcomed son Wilde in September 2023, however regardless of the title, Joel admits with a smile that their little man is as laid-back as they arrive, so shouldn’t be too phased by his jungle adventures. “He is very chill. And I do realise, we’re very fortunate with that. And I think if we had been to have one other, they’d be absolute nightmares!”, he laughs.

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And Joel, who just lately celebrated his fortieth birthday, appears to have taken to fatherhood like a duck to water. “He is so enjoyable. I simply love hanging out with him. It’s such a mad factor the place I simply really feel like my spouse’s given start to slightly finest pal – it is simply the dream.”

Whereas the TV star admits he’s a tad “bored of singing The Postman Pat theme tune”, his cute son makes up for it, by consistently making him chortle. “That is enjoyable in the intervening time. He’s obsessive about vans however cannot say the phrase truck, and as an alternative he says the phrase c**okay. In order that’s humorous.“

“And so he simply factors at large vans and says large c**okay actually loud within the Excessive Avenue. It is simply hilarious, while additionally being, like, embarrassing for me and his mom.”

Joel and Hannah’s love story started again in 2016, when Hannah cheekily slid into his DMs after he completed as runner-up on I’m A Movie star…Get Me Out of Right here! The pair immediately hit it off, and Joel popped the query, only a yr later. In 2019, they tied the knot in a surprising beachfront ceremony in Mykonos. Welcoming child Wilde just a few years later was the right subsequent chapter, he admits.

And whereas Joel says he doesn’t have any large secret in the case of a cheerful marriage, he does imagine that “honesty is essential”. “I believe it’s additionally taking time to talk to one another and correctly talk on the finish of the day, which is tough whenever you’re a mother or father”.

Requested if the challenges of parenting ever trigger friction between them, Joel confesses, “Fortunately, Hannah and I are just about on the identical wavelength, however parenting is so all-consuming. The entire thing is difficult, it’s simply exhausting to be sincere. We haven’t bought the power to battle, even when we wished to battle.”

In the meantime, after virtually a decade after his personal jungle stint the place he shared the campsite with the likes of Emily Atack, Carol Vorderman and eventual jungle queen Scarlett Moffatt, Joel is feeling the total circle second as he returns not as a contestant however as a bunch of the sister present.

“I’m actually excited to be again. I can’t fairly imagine it is coming as much as 10 years since I did the jungle myself. It’s actually, very nice to spherical off these 10 years and to be nonetheless going again there after so lengthy, it’s wonderful. And seeing contemporary folks getting in and seeing their enjoyment (and non- enjoyment as properly)… it is simply so pretty to see it via their eyes.”

Joel took half within the sixteenth sequence and completed because the runner-up, with Adam Thomas putting third and Gogglebox star Scarlett Moffatt successful the crown. Sweetly describing his Unpacked co-host Kemi Rogers as “really easy to work with”, Joel admits, their present is way more durable to create than the way it comes throughout on the telly.

“In actuality, you’re travelling there within the mad climate, for a begin. Final yr we had loopy floods and also you’re writing the present a few present that’s not completed but. Additionally, there’s the time zone distinction. I’m getting up at midnight after which working via the evening till 10 o’clock within the morning.”

Regardless of the trials, tribulations and teamwork concerned in creating the present in Australia and getting it into our houses within the UK, Joel says, “It is genuinely an unimaginable group, and it is like a correct military operation to get that TV present into your lounge. It is actually, actually wonderful.”

The Masked Singer presenter additionally believes I’m A Celeb stays one of many absolute highlights of our TV viewing all year long – a present in contrast to every other.

“What’s wonderful in regards to the present is the totally different folks’s reactions to the trials and the starvation. Totally different folks’s reactions are what make that present so particular. You’ve gotten sure individuals who simply take it of their stride. You’ve gotten different individuals who simply instantly say ‘I’m A Movie star Get Me Out Of Right here’. You’ve gotten different individuals who scream, scream, scream and others who simply shut their eyes and zone out.

“It simply brings these celebrities out of their consolation zone, and also you see a aspect of them that you’d by no means see on every other present. It is simply so charming and ridiculous and enjoyable”

Joking that his favorite contestant throughout his personal stint is ‘himself’, he then admits with a giggle that his favorite camp-mate was certainly one of his finest buddies, actor Adam Thomas.

“I simply thought he was the right campmate. He was so joyful, and his chortle was so infectious, and he type of stored the camp actually buoyant and enjoyable, and likewise had that aspect of vulnerability about him.

“That is what I believe is an ideal campmate, somebody who reveals that weak aspect, however brings true pleasure on the similar time.”

And would Joel be keen to step in as a contestant for the second time for an I’m A Celeb All Stars sequence, if he had been requested? “By no means say by no means”, he smiles. “It could positively get me off my cell phone for some time!”

I’m A Movie star…Get Me Out of Right here! begins sixteenth November on ITV1, STV, ITVX and STV Participant

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