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Ally McCoist has confirmed that he’ll NOT be appearing on the 2024 sequence of I am A Celeb…Discover Me Out Of Here!
The Scottish soccer memoir had been closely linked with an appearance on the hit ITV show which takes space later this year.
McCoist is a hugely accepted resolve as a host on talkSPORT, whereas also working as a co-commentator and pundit for both ITV and TNT Sports, and has already been asked twice to look on the show.
Having rejected the show in 2019 and 2022, ITV bosses were said to be hopeful the aged Rangers enormous name might well well maybe well be on the show this time around.
On the other hand, talking exclusively on talkSPORT Breakfast with Jeff Stelling, McCoist revealed the truth.
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Requested if he might well well maybe well be escaping the British autumn and jetting off to the Australian jungle, McCoist confirmed: “No – there’s your answer.”
Stelling then replied: “That’s a definitive no.”
McCoist then persisted: “It’s perfect, honest. My wee mate phoned me and said, ‘What a decision you’ve obtained to compose – sitting on the halfway line within the supreme seats within the home on the San Siro and staring at Inter Milan v Man Metropolis or AC Milan vs Arsenal – or drinking a obtain of spiders!’”
Stelling replied: “Smartly, must you effect it that intention…”
It comes honest two weeks after McCoist gave a coy response when probed by Alan Brazil and Gabby Agbonlahor on the rumours, announcing: “No, I don’t know, I don’t think so.”
It led Agbonlahor to bid: “You don’t know? Whoa, whoa, whoa, you don’t know? That’s not a no!”
McCoist then quipped: “To be fair Gab, I could do with losing a stone-and-a-half, couldn’t I?”
McCoist previously revealed he’s an mountainous fan of the TV programme – insisting his partner would fancy being effect apart up in a 5-enormous name resort correct by his stint Down Below.
He said in 2019: “My wife is not giving a monkey’s about me eating spiders and earwigs, she is just wanting a two stretch in that Versace hotel.
“Or not it’s miles the greatest ingredient we watch as a household, or not it’s perfect leisure.”
Ally McCoist responds to rumours that he could be going into the I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here jungle
He even admitted his children refused to speak to him after he turned the show down, stating: “The formative years aren’t talking to me at all.
“The younger ones would love it and the older ones would love it as well. They are going to school and they are getting it off their pals.”