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"Dougie Poynter: "I could've been the 1st person to die in the jungle"
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Dougie Poynter would get on with Jay McGuiness from The Wanted; they both love lizardy things.
"I've kept reptiles since I was 8 years old," says Dougie.
"I used to have a huge, huge collection of reptiles.
"[In the jungle] when the snake was underneath Mark's bed, I really wanted to jump up and get it.
"I wanted to get it so badly," he told Digital Spy.
"I wasn't allowed to in case I wrongly identified the breed of snake."
"That could've been just my luck.
"You could've seen me shouting, 'I know what I'm doing!' And then I'd end up dying.
"I could've been the first person to die in the jungle."
Well, we think we speak for everyone when we say THANK FRICK FOR THAT!"
Sugarscape
"A look back at the I’m A Celebrity final 2011
We all knew that Dougie was going to win.
You can call me cynical, but I also think Mark might not have got second place if the ‘Bromance’ between him and the McFly bass player hadn’t of blossomed.
And their first ‘date?’ The final trial, which was possibly one of the worst ever in I’m a Celeb history: A ‘Banquet’ of cockroach cocktails, fish-eye ‘oysters’, and other grim grub. Nevertheless, the boys soldiered on through it. Mark even called ‘Cricket Cruditaire’ Crispy Duck as Ant and Deck peered on with their hands over their faces nearly gagging at the sight.
Mark and Dougie had survived three weeks, endless public votes, and a visit from Peter Andre. Putting up with all the bickering between campmates, no food, and sleeping with rats had finally brought Dougie and Mark to the Jungle studio, the empty throne anticipating the new King of the Jungle. Once the nostalgic montages had played out, the pair was asked, ‘Would they go through it all again?’ Their answer? Of course they would!
Dougie was speechless when he was crowned the winner, and posed for the cameras at the end of the bridge whilst bandmate Tom Fletcher ran towards him.
It seems Dougie and Mark’s friendship has overshadowed the competition. Who would have thought pop star and the Essex Boy would get on so well? But, more importantly, how long will this friendship last once the last (insect free) cocktail at the afterparty in their five star Australian hotel has been drunk, and the ‘exclusive’ has been published? We’ll have to wait, or at least until we forget about it."
Platform
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"High McFlyers
The Sun meets the pop pin-ups who have gone prime time.
THEY were the fresh-faced teenagers who burst on to the pop scene in 2004.
Now, 18 consecutive Top 20 singles, ten albums and hundreds of thousands of screaming girl fans later, McFly have conquered our TVs too.
Dougie Poynter won I'm A Celebrity and twinkle toes Harry Judd is in tomorrow's semi-final of Strictly.
Their new fame followed Danny Jones's appearance on Popstar To Operastar and Tom Fletcher's stint in gameshow, The Cube.
The lads, whose most recent single, That's The Truth, came out last March, have announced a 26-date tour, kicking off in March next year.
Here they talk about their transition from pop to prime time...
Dougie Poynter
BASSIST Dougie Poynter was crowned this year's King Of The Jungle last weekend at the end of the 11th series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
The 24-year-old, who is dating artist Lara Carew-Jones, says: "Since leaving the jungle I've been eating non-stop.
"The first night I was out, my girlfriend brought me a massive calzone pizza and a brownie and that opened the floodgates. I haven't been able to stop eating since. The whole experience was seriously one of the best times in my life.
"I wish everyone could do it. It is hard when you're there and all you want to do is get out. But once you're out, all you want to do is go back.
"One of the reasons I'm so ridiculously stoked is because it's been an absolute 180-degree turnaround from where I was a year ago. The two couldn't be further apart."
In March this year Dougie spent a month in rehab after having a "tough time" following his split with The Saturdays' singer Frankie Sandford.
He recalls: "I went into rehab after a long time having issues with myself.
"One thing led to another and all of a sudden I was in there.
"It was either that or God knows what would have happened. It was solely the best thing I've ever done, it completely and utterly saved my life. I'm all hunky dory now.
"When I came out I was a bit confused as to the way I was going to be living my life from then on, but I guess I got lucky.
"After a few months I started seeing changes, my relationships with family and friends, and life in general, got better."
Philosophically, Dougie adds: "Everything happens for a reason — I believe if you hadn't done that it wouldn't have led to that and that. I would never have met Lara."
He met the Essex artist through bandmate Harry — and while on I'm A Celeb said: "I think I'm gonna marry her."
Dougie adds: "She wasn't worried I would meet anyone in the jungle, not in the slightest."
Asked what he would be doing aged 30, Dougie quips: "Hopefully I won't be dead! My mum says she's going to lock me up so I don't accidentally join the 27 Club — where the celebs seem to die at 27.
"I'd like to be married and have kids by then. All four of us have always been like that. We've had our moments — but we like our home comforts.
"I'm looking forward to getting back to what I was doing before. Before I went in the jungle I was writing more McFly stuff.
"It's sounding amazing. Me, Danny and Tom went to Wales on a writing trip and came up with some amazing songs.
"It's the most organic stuff we've ever done. It sounds 100 per cent how you would expect. It's going to be different but not a complete shock.
"Elements of one song are very U2-like, real stadium, epic guitars. One song is absolutely nuts.
"There are always other things going on too. Tom and I write kids' books — we've never had anything published, we just mess around.
"You can get away with ridiculous stories and poo jokes because it's for kids.
"Tom's also an amazing illustrator, he's the most talented dude in the world."
Harry Judd
HARRY JUDD, 25, has quick-stepped to the semi-final of Strictly Come Dancing.
He lives with girlfriend Izzy Johnston, 26, a violinist with Britain's Got Talent's Escala, and their two cats.
He says: "I can't believe I've managed to get this far on Strictly, it's insane really.
"The most surprising thing is I've really enjoyed some of the performances. I thought that with the amount of people who watch it, it would be impossible, too terrifying.
"If McFly have a big gig, an intense gig, I'm so glad I'm the drummer because I don't have to be out front.
"I think it did take guts to do Strictly. That's why I was really nervous when I was asked. I didn't know if I could handle that pressure of the live shows. I thought I would just buckle.
"There have been a couple of moments in a couple of dances when I've been really nervous, but you get through it and I'm pleased about that.
"I just practise and practise so I know what I'm doing and you try to stay calm and just do it.
"My lowest moment was the samba. It's all sexy hip action and that's just not me. I felt silly and I was glad when it was over."
He features with dance partner Aliona Vilani, 27, on the hit BBC1 dance show.
Of their chances as one of just five couples remaining, Harry says: "Any one of us could win it now. I've got a one in five chance and that's pretty cool.
"Izzy has been so supportive — without her I would have struggled to get through. She keeps me going when I'm tired.
"A friend asked if I was going to carry on dancing and I said I didn't know if I would have time. But Izzy said, 'Oh I'd love to start, we should go to lessons together.'
"I'm not obsessive about how I look but when you get into working out, it becomes like a sport and you want to be the best.
"I have got smaller since being on Strictly because I've been burning so many calories. I've tried to go to the gym a bit so I don't disappear.
"The six-pack is still there, I'll stay on top of that."
Harry reveals he has "never ever" thought of himself as sexy.
"I thought everyone would fancy Dan Lobb and Robbie Savage this year," he adds.
"You do kind of get used to the attention from McFly but you never really let yourself believe it's real. The difference now is I've had more people saying their mums like me!
"We don't take it for granted at all, we love the fans and the attention but we don't let it get to us.
"If you let that happen, that's when people change. We've stayed the same four guys we were from day one.
"A lot of people get famous and start going to all the celebrity hotspots but that's not really us. We have had crazy times but we've kept those out of the public eye."
Of his Strictly outfits, Harry says: "I think the band quite like them but they know I'm not going to wear them on tour — that's just for Strictly.
"When you're rehearsing in your tracksuit bottoms, it doesn't look as good. When you put the outfit on it gets you in the mood to perform."
Danny & Tom
GUITARIST and singer Danny Jones, 25, has been turning his hand to producing in the band's time off.
While frontman Tom Fletcher, 26, has been glued to reality TV – with his two bandmates and future brother-in-law all featuring in shows.
Danny, who is dating former model and 2007 Miss England Georgie Horsley, says: "My phone bill is going to be huge – I must have voted for the McFly boys hundreds of times.
"Dougie was amazing in the jungle. It's great that people got to see the sweet guy I know. And I had no idea Harry could dance like that. He's really, really good.
"In our time off I've been DJing and getting into producing. I really want to produce the next McFly album. The demos feel really true to ourselves."
Tom, who is engaged to childhood sweetheart Giovanna Falcone, 26, says: "I've been busy watching reality TV shows. I've had Harry and Dougie, and my soon-to-be brother-in-law is Mario Falcone on The Only Way Is Essex. I think I could spend three weeks hanging out in the jungle eating kangaroo penis.
"And I had no idea Harry was such a great dancer. He's brilliant. I keep winding up my fiancée, saying I'm going to do Wife Swap.
"We're halfway through wedding plans. I've got three best men. I couldn't choose between them. It could prove a disaster. I'm not sure who I'm going to trust with the rings."
The Sun
"Strictly's stolen my life: DAN WOOTTON joins Harry Judd for the day... and discovers the bruising truth
For viewers of Strictly Come Dancing, it’s easy to assume the celebrity contestants are the usual bunch of pampered stars who have every whim catered for before prancing on to the dancefloor to perform for just three minutes.
But for show favourite Harry Judd, the far-from-glamorous reality involves exhausting 12-hour days — seven days a week — of training (in the arms of a beautiful dancer — so it’s not all bad!). ‘Surely, a three-minute dance routine doesn’t take more than 70 hours of preparation?’ I ask the McFly drummer.
Harry summons his flame-haired professional partner Aliona Vilani, who is covered in bruises after being dropped onto hard wooden floors too many times to remember over the past eight weeks. ‘You show him how it’s done,’ he winks at her. And, sure enough, within ten minutes of coaching, I’m begging for mercy as a smug-looking Harry smiles: ‘See, you have no idea what Strictly really involves.’
But I’m about to find out as the 25-year-old pop star, who has been credited with helping to rejuvenate the hit BBC1 celebrity dance competition, reveals his intense preparation — yes, all 72 hours’ worth — in advance of tomorrow’s highly anticipated semi-final.
It’s 11am on Tuesday in a freezing cold training room in a public gym, on a grim-looking south-west London industrial estate surrounded by council flats.
There’s no hint that Harry — a pin-up to millions of teenage girls — is part of the country’s most glittering TV show, apart from two BBC cameras which stand ominously on tripods at each end of the room.
Two bored-looking producers will sit alongside them for the next six hours, secretly hoping Harry, who wears a red hooded jumper to keep him warm, will injure himself or get into a fight with Aliona so they have content for the video packages they’re working on.
When Harry and Aliona break for their usual dinner of fajitas at 6.30pm, the crew will depart. But the pair will continue perfecting their every move for four more hours in a smaller, windowless studio, in nearby Chiswick.
At 10.20pm, an exhausted Harry refuses to dance any more. He lies on the floor and tries to distract Aliona with ‘mindless conversation’. He’s had enough.
This laborious process is repeated from Monday to Thursday. And, unlike the other contestants, Harry and Aliona have already practised for an extra four hours on Sunday to get a head start.
There’s also filming of the BBC2 Strictly spin-off series, It Takes Two, and the comedic video packages which are shown on the Saturday shows. And Harry has twice-weekly weights sessions with a personal trainer to ensure his depressingly pert pecs stay toned.
‘I admit I am a bit of an obsessive,’ Harry says, while downing a revolting-looking concoction, which is actually an orange, carrot and ginger smoothie. ‘I’m a perfectionist. People keep telling me to take a day off, but I refuse.’
Harry's Strictly Diet
No wonder. The pressure is firmly on Harry to win. Not only has he been the bookies’ favourite for weeks, scoring plaudits from all four judges, but less than a week ago his bandmate Dougie Poynter won the rival ITV1 reality series I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here.
‘Before Dougie went into the jungle we joked: “Imagine if we both won.” Now Dougie has and I’m in the semis.’
Harry’s life has essentially been put on hold for the past four months.
He tries to listen to new McFly songs on his headphones during training breaks, but his mind is on only one thing — Strictly.
Despite the show’s winner-turned-judge Alesha Dixon recently claiming dancing so physically close to one’s partner for so many hours makes one rather frisky, Harry remains devoted to his long-term girlfriend Izzy Johnston, 27, who experienced her own reality TV fame as a member of Escala, the electronic string quartet who got to the finals of Britain’s Got Talent in 2008.
‘Maybe I’m just different, but I see Strictly as a professional thing and would regardless of whether I was single or not,’ he says. ‘I’m completely dedicated to one girl and I don’t let myself think like that anyway.
‘Izzy will come to training and sit in the corner watching us sometimes, or will come and have dinner with us. And the most important thing is that I wake up with her every morning.’
That’s not to say the inevitable intimacy that comes with spending more than 70 hours a week with a stunning, single professional dancer doesn’t cause some obvious awkwardness, especially when Izzy has to watch their more intimate routines.
Poor Aliona looks more like a boxer than a ballroom dancer up close, as Harry points out various bruises and swollen body parts which cover her from head to toe. ‘He quite literally has to climb all over me during training,’ Aliona smiles. ‘The bruises are painful and my rib cage is very sore.
‘It is hardcore physically. We have no break mats to cushion any falls we have. This week we had to drop a particularly difficult move, because it was too dangerous. There’s a limit, even for us.’
The pair have only had one serious bust-up during the course of the competition. ‘I nearly dropped her during a lift,’ Harry recalls. ‘I had dropped her quite a few times before then and she would laugh, but she wasn’t happy this time as she knew I wasn’t concentrating.’
But, he adds, they have ‘argued the least’ out of any of the couples: ‘We bicker, but anyone would when you spend that much time together.
‘Aliona’s seen me tired, grumpy and upset, but we make each other laugh. That’s part of the experience.’
Harry’s arch rival for the Strictly title, actress Chelsee Healey, practises in a next-door room most of the week, but he never checks out his competition.
‘We’ll talk during a cigarette break, but that’s about it,’ he explains.
Astonishingly, considering the vigorous routines, smoking is one habit Harry hasn’t given up. He and Chelsee often nip out to the BBC’s courtyard for a quick puff to calm their nerves after the live show. ‘It’s quite a nice time, because the dance is over and we get to meet up with whoever the contestants have brought with them,’ he says.
During training, each professional dancer works differently. Many will ‘block out’ the moves on the first day of training so the celebrity is aware of everything they have to learn during the week. But Aliona takes things much slower, perfecting the routine bit by bit.
It can be painful to watch, as they go through the routine step-by-step at a snail’s pace.
Harry explains: ‘If we’re doing a samba, she’ll teach me the basic steps on a Sunday but, sometimes, I won’t do the final steps until Thursday. It’s like perfecting your golf swing — you have to put in lots of time and effort.’
Harry is rarely disagreeable, but when Aliona suggests ‘sexing up’ the routine with facial expressions, she’s given a flat No.
On Fridays and Saturdays, the dancers finally get to move out of their suffocating training venues and into the BBC’s rundown White City studios.
At 10am Harry arrives in the ‘Star Bar’ area which houses the celebrities’ dressing rooms, and is bombarded by camera crews and production staff from the moment he walks in.
On Friday, he spends a lot of time backstage getting fitted into his costume for the live show. The male dancers’ shirts are actually all-in-ones with attached underwear made of lycra. That poses hazards when nature calls. ‘It’s very difficult, believe me,’ Harry groans.
The professional dancers do not even have their own dressing rooms because of a lack of space. Instead, there are two communal rooms — one for the females, one for males — where they get ready. Harry prefers to hang out in the professional males’ dressing room than his own ‘because there’s a good camaraderie’.
Perhaps the only perk (other than free stodgy food from the BBC canteen) is a spray-tanning booth, which all the celebrities and professionals visit.
Saturdays are the most difficult for Harry, who struggles with the long wait between the final rehearsal (where a dressed-down Bruce Forsyth warns the contestants: ‘Make sure you laugh at my jokes’) and the start of the live show.
‘I sit down and just feel sick and totally drained with anxiety,’ he says.
Each celebrity can invite just two guests to the show, making it a tough choice between parents, partners and friends. Izzy always gets a ticket, and Harry will try to see her briefly before the show.
Contrary to popular belief, the Sunday night results show is filmed 90 minutes after the live show on a Saturday.
Harry struggles with being filmed after the result is announced, as he would like a moment to himself to celebrate. He says: ‘The vultures — I mean the cameramen — flock onto the floor. Last week, I was trying to give Robbie Savage, who had just been voted off, a hug and they insisted I was interviewed. It was the last thing I felt like doing after all that! I just wanted to go and hug my family.’
Harry has given up drinking (he’s had only half a bottle of Becks during the entire series), so doesn’t go to the BBC bar with the other contestants to celebrate afterwards.
‘I don’t enjoy drinking any more. I only ever used to drink to get drunk. I could drink if I wanted to, but I don’t. I’d rather get to bed, as I’m so exhausted,’ he says.
Harry’s raunchy routines have been a hit with judges Craig Revel-Horwood and Bruno Tonioli, but he’s not complaining about their, at times, flirtatious comments.
‘Sometimes it’s embarrassing, but it’s just a bit of fun. I’d rather them say positive things than that I’m ugly,’ he says.
‘Bruno’s worse than Craig for sure. Craig’s very professional, actually. He’s lovely off camera. I think he’s very fair.’
Len has been known to apologise backstage for tougher comments. ‘He will often say to me: “Don’t get downhearted when I criticise you, just take it on board,” ’ Harry recalls.
According to Harry, co-presenter Tess Daly likes a ‘gossip’ backstage with the contestants while Bruce will regale them with stories of industry legends such as Tommy Cooper.
Harry plans to be in bed by midnight tonight, so he wakes up fresh for tomorrow’s crucial semi-final, when two celebrities will be voted out, leaving only three to compete in the final.
‘I’d be lying if I said I didn’t really want to win it. I’ll be disappointed if I don’t. I can’t concentrate on anything else. I’m in the zone.’
After the final, I wouldn’t blame Harry — or any of the other finalists — if they never wanted to dance again. For the true contenders, Strictly Come Dancing really is all-consuming."
Daily Mail (kuvia sivulla)
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