I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! 2021 | Interview with Frankie Bridge (Pop Star & Presenter)

Phobias: Spiders, rats and confined spaces scare me.

Biggest misconception you want to dispel in the Castle: People think if you are in a pop group, you lead a glamorous lifestyle and won’t get stuck in, but I’m determined to muck in with all the chores.

Role in the camp: The serial hugger.

Miss most: Wayne and my boys.

Dream camper: Larry Lamb or a father figure type.

She has always admitted doing I’m A Celebrity would be terrifying but now Frankie Bridge is determined to conquer her fears by taking part, vowing: “I’m scared of most things, but I want to push myself and show a side people have not seen before”.

And the mum of two reckons the eating Trials are going to be very tough given she even has a phobia of tomato ketchup.

“I think people will be surprised to see me doing I’m A Celebrity and I am scared of most things, but I really want to push myself,” explains Frankie.

“I’m scared of rats, I am a fussy eater and I have a bit of a phobia of ketchup, so a pint of penis terrifies me! Any of the eating challenges will be my idea of hell. I also hate spiders in my own home, being trapped in small spaces is a big thing for me and pretty much all of that is likely to happen which makes me go, ‘Why the hell are you doing it?’ And so that is exactly why I am doing it!”

She says her husband, Wayne, can’t wait for her to go into the Castle after he took part in the programme in 2016.

Says Frankie: “Ever since Wayne took part, he has been desperate for me to do it too and he can’t wait to watch me squirm and scream! My kids are still quite young, and they still think I am quite cool – so there is a very small window for them to watch it and not be embarrassed! I feel now is the time. I love the show so much too.”

What advice has Wayne given her? “Because I am not in the jungle and in the Castle, it is hard to say what it is going to be like for me,” she replies. “But his main bit of advice is to be myself, not over think things and have fun.”

Looking forward to meeting the rest of her campmates, Frankie says she wants to embrace everything, but she knows it will be tough being apart from her two sons.

“Being apart from Wayne and the boys is going to be the big thing for me,” explains Frankie.

“My youngest is very confused that he can’t ring or FaceTime because if I am ever away, that’s what we do. He did recently ask me: ‘Mummy I don’t want you to go but are you going to have fun?’ I told him I would and so he said it would be ok. Once they see me on the programme and hopefully if I am laughing or doing something gross that is funny, I think they will be fine.

“Being in the same country also makes me feel so much better. I think being on the other side of the world and having no contact would maybe be a step too far.

“But that all said, I love being in new situations and I know you will come out with a bond (with the other campmates) that no one else will have. I love the idea of that.”

Describing herself as the ‘serial hugger’ in the camp, Frankie hopes to be the peacekeeper in the Castle if tempers fray.

And she says she has not even thought about how it would feel to win the series. “I haven’t thought that far but it would be amazing if I were to win,” she adds. “I would love to get to the final to do the cyclone trial. And if I am going to be away from the kids and eat disgusting things, I want it to be worth it.

“People assume that if you are in a pop group you lead a really glamorous lifestyle and that I wouldn’t want to get stuck in, but I know I will give everything a go.”

Laughing, Frankie also admits that whatever happens in the Castle, she knows she will go on an epic rollercoaster of emotions.

The 32-year-old singer adds: “There are going to be so many emotions in the Castle. I think it is going to be a total rollercoaster of laughing, crying, loving it, hating it, wanting to stay, wanting to go but that is what going on I’m A Celebrity is all about. Now it is all sinking in that I am doing this programme, I can’t wait to go into the Castle.”