Danny Wallace has jetted off to New Zealand to present this years series of Castaway, due to hit our screens early in March. The identity of the islanders have remained top secret, and Danny intends on keeping it that way!
“I’ve seen the audition tapes and they’re people I’m itching to talk about but I’m sworn to secrecy. I haven’t even told my mum,” he grins.
“I can tell you that they’re a disparate bunch and not the kind of people you normally get on reality shows. There’s no one who desperately wants to be on the cover of a men’s magazine, there’s no one who’s got an agent and no one’s about to release their first single. They’re people who it’s going to be a bit of a journey for. I know that sounds a bit cheesy but it’s true – this experience could mean a lot to them.
“When you see tapes of auditions for other shows, people are always talking about their personality and what they’re like. But these people talked about their backgrounds and their life stories and that’s where the secrets lie, that’s where the key to them is. I do think they’re going to become our friends for three months.”
Despite this, Danny says he’d be none too keen to actually be one of the castaways as they eke out new lives on the other side of the world.
“I’ll probably be quite jealous of their experience, but I know that I’m romanticising it because I’ve seen the island and how beautiful it is. I’m forgetting that there’s no electricity and no mobile phone signals and no luxuries of any kind,” he says.
“It sounds idyllic at first and it might be brilliant for a couple of days, but then you might start to miss your morning frappucino and, if I’m honest, I’m not really one for roughing it.
“Having said that, they haven’t actually told me where I’m staying yet and they waited until I’d signed the contract before revealing that there’s a massive rat problem on the island, so I am starting to wonder…”
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