Joe Marler rules out Strictly Come Dancing and I'm A Celebrity...
Joe Marler will not be doing Strictly Come Dancing, or I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!, because he did not catch the reality TV bug following his successful run on Celebrity Traitors.
Joe Marler will snub offers to do Strictly Come Dancing and I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!.
The former rugby player has no appetite to do more reality TV shows following his successful run on Celebrity Traitors.
Joe, 35, told Metro newspaper: "People have asked me, but I'm not doing Strictly because I can't dance. And I'm not doing I'm A Celeb because I'm claustrophobic, and I also get really hungry, so I'd be a nightmare in there."
Instead of the BBC Latin and Ballroom dance competition and the ITV jungle survival show, Joe is keen to do a TV show with his Celebrity Traitors co-star, 45-year-old comedian Nick Mohammed.
Joe joked: "But I'm still very much just a retired rugby player trying to pay off his mortgage."
Faithful Nick banished fellow goodie Joe in the final of Celebrity Traitors - which aired on November 6 - and it took weeks after filming for the programme wrapped for the pair to discuss it.
Speaking about that moment in the ultimate game of backstabbing, deceit and betrayal, Joe said: "It wasn't for a couple of weeks that I got to properly debrief with Nick.
"I was like, 'What changed, mate - I thought we were going for it?' And it turns out I was just a little bit creepy."
And Joe has no hard feelings about Nick.
Joe added: "But I love Nick to bits - it's all part of the game, and we're still really good friends now. It was great fun."
The sportsman correctly told Nick and fellow Faithful, writer David Olusoga, 55, that the two other finalists, comedian Alan Carr, 49, and singer Cat Burns, 25, were Traitors.
Nick and David believed Cat was, causing her to be uncovered as a Traitor at the final hurdle, but the pair incorrectly thought Alan was a Faithful.
Sadly, they guessed wrong, and Alan won the £87,500 jackpot, which he donated to Neuroblastoma UK.
On reflection, Joe described the Celebrity Traitors experience as "wild" and "a little bit overwhelming" at times.
He added: "I remember turning to my wife once the final had been broadcast, and I was like, 'Great, it's done now - everyone's just gonna concentrate on Christmas.'
"But being able to sit around the Round Table with people like Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie and Alan Carr ... and the opportunity to tell Alan to shut up or Jonathan Ross to grow up - that was great fun!"
Celebrity Traitors - which sees the Faithfuls identify and banish the Traitors through voting, while the Traitors try to stay undetected and 'murder' the Faithfuls each night - had the nation gripped and became the biggest unscripted title on Broadcaster VOD ever.
And Joe did not predict the show's popularity.
He said: "I knew the show would be popular, but I didn't anticipate the public loving it as much as they did."
