Former MP Ed Balls has made a rather entertaining revelation: that he was asked to appear in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here, but turned it down.

He told The Telegraph: “There was great excitement in our house, or horror, when an offer came in from I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!.”

Ed Balls
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But living with critters in The Outback wasn’t his idea of fun at all.

“I wrote back to say that I’d already subjected myself to one high-profile public vote this year, and I wasn’t really sure that I wanted a second one.”

“At least having to eat bugs and crickets wasn’t part of the election process. I’m not tough enough for that.”

What a pity, we’d have relished seeing Mr Balls tackling those bushtucker trials.