Name: Simon Webbe

Age: 30

Occupation: Singer and Songwriter

Celebrity supporters: Danny Dyer, Nicola Stapleton, Duncan James

Phobias: Everything

Special skills: Being a strong alpha male

“I’m afraid of everything to be honest. I’m not ashamed to say it.”

Singer Simon Webbe has confessed he is frightened about every aspect of the jungle, but not what people think about him.

He says: “I’m afraid of everything to be honest. I’m not ashamed to say it, maybe when I was younger I would turn around and say, ‘I’m not afraid of anything’, but I’m a 30-year-old man so I can’t be bothered with that anymore.

“Anything that crawls, anything that runs on the floor, anything that slithers, anything that can fall on me and get into little nooks and crannies, I’m afraid of everything. So I don’t know why I’m going to the jungle. I don’t like heights, I don’t like water – I don’t swim, I don’t even swim in the swimming pool, I’m not a very strong swimmer.

“I don’t really care how people find me. I think there will be a good mixture of people there. I think there will be divas, I think there’s going to be anti-divas, there’s going to be people that are going to struggle and there’s probably people that will bully them if only to take their minds off their own situations. I study human beings; that’s my job, that’s why I write songs. So for me I’m just an observer. I’ve been an observer for a long time and I’ll make my mind up once I get there.”

Simon also reveals he’s worried that his friendliness with the ladies could be misconstrued as flirting on camera. The hunky singer said he wouldn’t want to upset his girlfriend by flirting with another girl in the camp.

He says: “I’ve never thought I’m a big flirt. I’ve gone through years saying to myself, ‘No you’re not, you’re not, you’re not, you’re not, you’re not’, and people have gone, ‘You are, Si, you are’.

“And I’ve realised that now, so obviously I don’t want to be flirting because that’s not fair on my girlfriend…and this is the kind of show where you’re going to be put in an environment with people and for me you know I’ve got to stay focused and stay true to my lovely girlfriend, which I will be.

“If anyone’s flirting with me then that’s a different story. Then I’ll just nip it in the bud, and you know just be straight. ‘Do you like me? I’ve got a girlfriend – put the brakes on it right now’.”

He’s also worried his worst personal habit – of putting his hands down the front of his pants – will offend viewers.

He says: “My most annoying habit, and one that I’ve had since I was a baby so I can’t help it, is that I put my hands down my front. Teachers in school used to make me sit on my hands. If I’m chilling then I just do it. I don’t know where it stems from, whether it’s from when I was in my mum’s belly; it must be genetic because I really can’t help it.

“That’s one habit I’ve got which I’m trying to stop. One thing that I find annoying in other people is snoring. If people snore when I try to get to sleep I will go crazy. Literally someone will get hurt.”

The singer says his other biggest fear about the jungle is getting kidnapped by a gorilla.

He says: “I’m scared that a big gorilla is going to come out in the middle of the night and start kidnapping people, because you’ve seen those programmes like Lost, those kinds of things don’t go so well with me.

“So I think I’ll be sleeping with one eye open. I’m an insomniac anyway so I don’t really sleep that much. As far as the journey into camp goes, the only thing I’m probably worried about is being attacked on the ground by some four-legged creature jumping out and just grabbing someone from the back of the queue. You’ve seen those movies – you don’t mess with things in the jungle, man. What are we doing there? You know we came out of there years and years ago, now we’re going back in there to like mess with Mother Nature.”

Simon says he’s going into the jungle to learn more about himself and has been taking secret advice from previous contestants Myleene Klass and Antony Costa.

He says: “I think the number one reason is to find a part of myself and get back to nature where we all come from. I think the whole thing is the mind over matter thing. I pushed myself into singing when the people around me were saying, ‘Look you’ve got quite a good voice, maybe if you worked at it you could do something and have a career’.

“My fear was opening my mouth and these notes coming out that people may not like so I’ve overcome that fear now. The next fear is going into the outdoors and doing challenges and things like that. It’s going to be fun and I’m going out to enjoy it.

“Antony [Costa] gave me some advice although I can’t tell you what that is. Myleene Klass has given me some sound advice as well. But to be honest I did think of it as a game show, I’ve got to go in there and do certain things, I’ve got to do this, that and the other but then I thought that’s not being me.

“I think this whole programme is about discovering who I am stripped away from all my comfort zones and I believe that I will cope quite well.”

But he warns fellow campmates that although he sees himself as a simple man, he will be grumpy in a morning.

He says: “Simple is one word to describe me, which is why I’m called Simon. I’m very giving, sensitive and have a dry sense of humour that not everyone may get at first and I can be quite snappy as well.

“I think the only part I’m going to struggle with is the eating and not getting my food. I eat every two hours. A lot of people think that to lose weight you have to stop eating but it’s better if you eat little and often. But that is going to get taken away as soon as I get into the jungle.

“I can get a little snappy and I’m not a morning person, it takes me about two hours to wake up so I just hope nobody asks me to smile first thing in the morning because you are just not going to get a smile from me. I don’t speak to anyone, even in my own house. I grew up in a house of silence in the first hour of the morning. I think my mum had a rule, ‘Don’t talk to me until you’ve brushed you teeth’, which is understandable.

“A lot of people may think that I’m arrogant because of the way my face is but I can’t help it, it’s like my mum, every time people see my mum they always say, ‘Smile’, and it’s just like, ‘Why do you want me to smile?’, I think I’ve got a moody face so people assume I’m arrogant.”

He also adds that the things he will miss most about home are his family and his mobile.

He says: “Just being able to have access to the internet and access to people through my phone, even if I’m not speaking to people I still play games on it when I’m bored. I think handling boredom is going to be the hardest thing for me. But then it’s a great excuse to be bored, which is not a bad thing. Because I’m always busy so not being able to do anything I think for the first few days will be hard, but it’s like going on holiday, its takes the first three or four days to get settled and that’s when you start appreciating exactly what I’m there for.”

And he promises his fellow band members that he won’t be dishing the dirt on them while he’s in the jungle.

He says: “We’ve always sworn that what goes on in Blue stays in Blue, so I don’t think it would be fair of me to give away all the juicy gossip about me and the boys.”