AMIR Khan revealed to Ant and Dec that he's never watched I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here as he prepared to enter the jungle.

He was greeted by the two hosts as they welcomed this year's ten celebrities — including Bury-based actress Jennie McAlpine — at a luxury Gold Coast villa.

Fellow soap star and actor Jamie Lomas, who is also entering the jungle, said he was pleased to see Jennie, saying: "Yeah, two fellow northerners."

And Amir and Jennie found themselves 334 feet up on the roof of the hotel as he faced a new variation — and described as an even more terrifying — of the dreaded plank was waiting for the celebrities to walk it.

The show featuring the Bolton-born boxer starts tonight and Amir confessing he had not seen the hit show, much to the amusement of both Ant and Dec.

Others in the celebrity jungle include Stanley Johnson, actress, wife of Jamie Vardy Rebekah Vardy, retired footballer Dennis Wise, Youtuber and vlogger Jack Maynard, reality TV star Georgia Toffolo, comedian Shappi Khorsandi, singer and pop star Vanessa White.

Jennie, although said she wasn’t scared of heights — was worried because she didn’t have great balance.

Other celebrities faced skydiving into the jungle or face the wretched wreck challenge.

The show starts at 9pm tonight ITV yesterday.