On joining the team on I’m A Celebrity, Janice Dickinson describes herself as the world’s first supermodel, whose career now spans television, writing, and running a model agency.

Janice is firmly against any cruelty to animals but says she’s not worried by any of the food trials as she explains: “I’ve been around the world, I’ve eaten monkey brain, I’ve eaten ants, and I’ve eaten creepy crawly things.”

As for being hungry, she says: “I didn’t eat for ten years, so if I don’t have to eat for a month in the jungle, well I’ll probably find some rice or beans or a can of sardines.”

The most adventurous things Janice has done before includes posing on top of a live crocodile for Playboy and doing an underwater shoot with sharks. She describes her skills as skiing, swimming and climbing trees, and says if she was an animal she would be a dolphin.

She decided to take part in I’m a Celebrity because it is a great, entertaining show, and she hopes it will be a great experience, and that she will be able to help many people through the show.

She describes the aspects of her personality that will help her in the jungle thus: “I’m a survivor, I’m a Scout, and I have extraordinary hearing”

Janice is not concerned about being filmed 24 hours a day, because she says: “I was born in front of a camera.”

She thinks viewers and her campmates will be surprised that she is caring and sensitive, and says she will see her role in camp as ‘Den Mother’. She thinks people will relate to her because she’s ‘real, except for my tits’.

As for living with the other celebrities, she thinks the experience will be ‘anthropology at it’s finest’.

Her dream campmate would be Crocodile Dundee, and her nightmare campmate? “My third husband!”

Janice describes herself as chronically punctual, having a devilish sense of humour, sensitive and patient to a fault.

Her favourite celebrities from the last series were Phina Oruche and David Gest, although she didn’t care for his language: “The V word! I wanted to clobber him. Men should be respectful of women. But in the end I ended up liking him.”

Janice will miss her children, Savannah (13) and Nathan (20) and her boyfriend while she’s in the jungle, particularly at Thanksgiving. When asked if she will be looking for love in the jungle she replies: “Yes, with a wombat!”