Tom Read Wilson 'had a wobble' over I'm A Celebrity appearance
Celebs Go Dating star Tom Read Wilson recently had a "wobble" about entering the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! camp, but a taxi driver helped to "really contextualise" his concerns.
Tom Read Wilson recently had a "wobble" about being a late entrant on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!.
The Celebs Go Dating star is due to appear on the ITV reality TV show this week, alongside fellow latecomer Vogue Williams, but he admitted it will be a "real wrench" being away from his family during his time in the Australian jungle.
Speaking about a recent taxi journey, he told the Daily Mail: "It's funny because I got into a car the other day, and I had a little bit of a wobble.
"And without telling the driver anything, I said, 'Well, I'm just about to do this thing that's rather challenging and I don't know if I'm very well-equipped.'
"'I've got a lot of small people in my life. I've got five godkids and three nephews, all of whom I speak to multiple times a week and see multiple times a month. So that is going to be a real wrench. I think that's why I had a wobble."
But Tom felt better after his driver, Abdi, "really contextualised" his concerns.
He explained: "Abdi said, 'Look at that enormous tree outside the car. If I told you to climb that tree, you'd be very daunted. But he said, once you'd started, you'd find a little groove to put your foot in. You'd find a branch that would bear your weight.
"'Before you knew it, piecemeal, you'd be in the canopy and you wouldn't know how you got there.' "
Tom admitted it was the "perfect" piece of advice, and he felt it was fate he had met the driver.
He added: "I was so, so delighted because it just suddenly put everything in perspective. So I think I've got the same fear, but he really contextualised it for me.
"It's a funny thing with fear historically for me because it's one of those things that swells and swells and swells in my mind. And as soon as I start something, I'm actually much better."
Tom is already looking forward to meeting campmate Aitch, because he finds the rapper "fascinating".
He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I know that he is very bendy with words, which I adore.
"I love new coinings. It is the reason I am mad about Shakespeare, is all the endless coinings and the sense of play with lexicon. And he has got that in spades. I know he has. And I also really think of rap as modern poetry. I wish I could do it."
