Name: Simon Webbe
Age: 30
Occupation: Singer and Songwriter
Celebrity supporters: Danny Dyer, Nicola Stapleton, Duncan James
Phobias: Everything
Special skills: Being a strong alpha male
Singer Simon Webbe has confessed he is frightened about every aspect of the jungle, but not what people think about him.
He says: "I’m afraid of everything to be honest. I’m not ashamed to say it, maybe when I was younger I would turn around and say, ‘I’m not afraid of anything’, but I’m a 30-year-old man so I can’t be bothered with that anymore.
"Anything that crawls, anything that runs on the floor, anything that slithers, anything that can fall on me and get into little nooks and crannies, I’m afraid of everything. So I don’t know why I’m going to the jungle. I don’t like heights, I don’t like water - I don’t swim, I don’t even swim in the swimming pool, I’m not a very strong swimmer."
"I don’t really care how people find me. I think there will be a good mixture of people there. I think there will be divas, I think there’s going to be anti-divas, there’s going to be people that are going to struggle and there’s probably people that will bully them if only to take their minds off their own situations. I study human beings; that’s my job, that’s why I write songs. So for me I’m just an observer. I’ve been an observer for a long time and I’ll make my mind up once I get there."
Simon also reveals he’s worried that his friendliness with the ladies could be misconstrued as flirting on camera. The hunky singer said he wouldn’t want to upset his girlfriend by flirting with another girl in the camp.
He says: "I’ve never thought I’m a big flirt. I’ve gone through years saying to myself, ‘No you’re not, you’re not, you’re not, you’re not, you’re not’, and people have gone, ‘You are, Si, you are’."
He’s also worried his worst personal habit - of putting his hands down the front of his pants - will offend viewers.
He says: "My most annoying habit, and one that I’ve had since I was a baby so I can’t help it, is that I put my hands down my front. Teachers in school used to make me sit on my hands. If I’m chilling then I just do it. I don’t know where it stems from, whether it’s from when I was in my mum’s belly; it must be genetic because I really can’t help it."
The singer says his other biggest fear about the jungle is getting kidnapped by a gorilla.
He says: "I’m scared that a big gorilla is going to come out in the middle of the night and start kidnapping people, because you’ve seen those programmes like Lost, those kinds of things don’t go so well with me.
Simon says he’s going into the jungle to learn more about himself and has been taking secret advice from previous contestants Myleene Klass and Antony Costa.
He says: "I think the number one reason is to find a part of myself and get back to nature where we all come from. I think the whole thing is the mind over matter thing. I pushed myself into singing when the people around me were saying, ‘Look you’ve got quite a good voice, maybe if you worked at it you could do something and have a career’.
"Antony [Costa] gave me some advice although I can’t tell you what that is. Myleene Klass has given me some sound advice as well. But to be honest I did think of it as a game show, I’ve got to go in there and do certain things, I’ve got to do this, that and the other but then I thought that’s not being me.
"I think this whole programme is about discovering who I am stripped away from all my comfort zones and I believe that I will cope quite well."
But he warns fellow campmates that although he sees himself as a simple man, he will be grumpy in a morning.
He also adds that the things he will miss most about home are his family and his mobile.
And he promises his fellow band members that he won’t be dishing the dirt on them while he’s in the jungle.