Toby Young Toby Young

Status Anxiety | 22 November 2008

I’m the celebrity who told ITV there was too much Ant and Dec — get me out of here!

issue 22 November 2008

I’m the celebrity who told ITV there was too much Ant and Dec — get me out of here!

Earlier this year I made a life-changing decision. I realised after I had made it that it had been simmering away, on the edge of my consciousness, for some months. But at the time it seemed revelatory: one of those epiphanies that the American self-help guru Dr Phil calls a ‘defining moment’.

‘Darling,’ I said to my wife over breakfast, ‘there’s something I need to tell you.’

‘Oh God,’ she said. ‘You haven’t been fired again?’ ‘No, no, nothing like that. I’ve decided that if I get the call-up to appear on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! this year, I’m going to say no.’

She looked stunned.

‘Are you feeling OK? You haven’t had a mini-stroke have you?’

‘I’m being serious.

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