Shearer reveals that he is on the dole only six months after winning the reality TV show, and is bored out of his mind!

The advert, which is linked to Shearer’s MySpace page, reads: “I am bored. I am on the dole. I see nothing on my horizon. Someone, somewhere has something interesting for me to do. I have created these pages to try to find myself a ‘job’, or a ‘wife’ or a ‘project’ or anything to get me excited about life again.”

Come on there must be someone that wants to work with a rude arrogant, but actually quite amusing man, out there!

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Danny Wallace, presenter of BBC reality TV show Castaway, has spoken to Hot Stars magazine about why he thinks the show flopped.

“I wanted to do it because it was three months on a beautiful island and I got paid,” Danny told Hot Stars magazine. “If something sounds fun then I’m there.

“People are used to reality shows every night and I think Castaway being on once a week was a bit strange. Once the show was put on three times a week, the ratings improved, but it was too late. Some things catch on, some don’t.”

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He receives a month long, tailor-made trip around New Zealand for himself and a companion.

For the last two weeks of the series, viewers have been able to vote for which Castaway they felt had made the most of the experience.

Those with the fewest votes were Cast Off leaving just four – Francie, Little Al, Jonathan, Catherine – in the final show.

In the last moments, it came down to just Jonathan and Francie but the Scotsman pipped her to the post in the end.

From the outset of the series, Jonathan was a controversial character; he seemed to revel in causing disruption and discord. He always spoke his mind, disagreed with others regularly and generally provoked his fellow castaways.

Eventually he was booted out of the communal sleeping hut, literally Cast Out, so moved into the potting shed and created his own little home, resulting in much more harmony for both himself and the others!

Although argumentative, Jon also had a much kinder side. At times he gave away some of his own food rations and lent warm clothing for the treacherous fishing trips.

By the end, most of the group had a real fondness for him but, for one or two, he pushed them too far and forgiveness is not likely.

He has a one-year-old son back in Scotland whom he only met for the first time just three weeks before leaving for Castaway.

During his 12 weeks on the island, though, Jon finally, as he says, “learnt how to be a father”, which is perhaps why most viewers voted him as “the person who had made the most of the Castaway experience”.

Commenting on the how he feels about taking part, Jon told presenter Danny Wallace: “I want to live like this forever, I want to be self-sufficient… although not with 14 people crowding around me, shouting at me, hounding me out of my sleeping hut!”

When asked about what he expects once he gets home he replied, smiling: “I almost feel like I’m going to be Cast-away again. There’s another adventure, but this time not just for three months, for the rest of my life with my son.”

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Presenter Danny Wallace introduces their new member. Having the benefit of seeing what the island is like from the series so far, what will the new Castaway have packed – a secret food stash, extra jumpers, extreme wet weather gear…?

The show also features the latest news and footage from the island.

Eagle-eyed viewers might spot something suspicious during the programme and they can visit bbc.co.uk/castaway to find out what is going on.

Sunday 29 April
7.00-7.35pm BBC ONE

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Viewers can now vote for which person they think should join the other castaways by simply visiting bbc.co.uk/castaway to check out the contenders’ profiles and make their choice.

Plus, in his own cheeky way, Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1 is supporting Cast Me when he sits in for Chris Moyles on the Breakfast Show this week. See bbc.co.uk/radio1/scottmills for updates on his antics…

The results of the viewer vote will be revealed by Richard Bacon in Castaway Exposed (Sunday 22 April, 7.30pm on BBC Three). The winner will then have just a few days to pack and prepare as they will join the other castaways – who have no idea there will be a new arrival – on Sunday 29 April.

Castaway presenter, Danny Wallace, gives his thoughts on the qualities required by the new arrival: “Whoever the public chooses will have to have a bullet-proof personality but one that is capable of adapting – not just to island life, but to life with a pretty tired, pretty hungry and pretty stinky group of strangers.

“They’ll have to be able to live without hair straighteners, lip gloss, and lattes, and expect to share a wooden floor with the elements, the rats, and quite a scary Scotsman!”

The four contenders are:

* Alex, a supermarket worker aged 23 from Cornwall:

Alex feels lost at the moment. He hates his job in a supermarket but can’t decide what he wants to do. Despite having a new bright idea every week he rarely follows these through.

On his hopes for joining Castaway, he says: “I would hopefully like to gain some life experience. I feel like since school I have had a path laid out for me, now that it’s my turn to choose what I should do I am absolutely clueless. I hope that this trip would help me get some focus with what I am going to do with my life.”

* Catrin, a psychology student aged 20 from Cardiff:

Catrin thinks that living in close quarters with the other castaways will be the most challenging part of the experience, but she wants to get onto the island to tell the other to stop being drips and get on with it!

On why she wants to join Castaway, she said: “This experience would take me out of my usual environment; put me in something completely out of the ordinary. I’m a normal Welsh girl ready to represent Wales and show we’re not all weird, stupid and blonde!”

* Lawrence, a retail manager aged 21 from Surrey:

Lawrence believes he is destined to take part in Castaway because when he heard Cast Me on the radio he was overwhelmed by a feeling that he had to do it.

On signing up for Cast Me, he says: “I’m a big believer in omens and felt that this was just too good an opportunity to miss out on and my senses where picking up on something! I just feel I have to do it and know it will become obvious when I’m there as to why I’m there!”

* Robina, a trainer for a charity aged 22 from Shropshire:

Describing herself as single and desperate she’s had enough of the Shewsbury dating scene and is keen to get away.

On Castaway, she comments: “I would totally love the whole experience whether it was good or bad.”

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The Castaway’s were asked to vote for the person who had gotten the LEAST out of their Castaway experience, they had a week to consider their decision.

The group was split, with everyone voting for either Jonathan or Jason. However in the final vote, Lucinda changed her mind at the last minute, changing the final result and sending Jason home.

The relief in our living room was palpable. Both hubby and I agree that Jonathan should remain in Castaway until the last week. I wouldn’t want to live with him, but he is interesting to watch, he makes great TV!

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This week the group were split into their two camps (East wing and West wing) and made to vote on who they thought was getting the least out of their Castaway experience.

After many disagreements and arguments (most of them coming from Jonathan!) the two Castaways chosen were Occupational Therapist, Joe Chicken and Margaret Thatcher wannabe, Clare Hilley.

I think the two will hit it off this week, and you never know, it might just end up being our first Castaway romance!

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Matt Williams, husband of Erica Hurst is trying desperately to be given a place on the BBC’s Castaway team, inn order to be reunited with his new wife.

The pair were married only a matter of weeks before Erica jetted off to the other side of the world to take aprt in the BBC’s newest reality TV show. Matt has now formally nominated himself with a Radio 1 competition to join the 14 other castaways on New Zealand’s Great Barrier Island this week.

The nightclub security manager from Lostock is hoping to make a shortlist from which the station’s listeners will vote one person onto the show next month.

If the ratings keep slipping, BBC might just find this is the twist they need to bring the viewers back.

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The Castaway website reports:

All he wants is to “get off this damn island”. The wind is starting to kick in, he’s pulled up the door to his shack but it’s still desperately miserable and getting worse.

Can’t say that I blame Jason. Being alone for a long period of time is bad enough, but when you are confined to a run down shack in the middle of a storm that just keeps getting worse, I can’t imagine that optimism would be easy.

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I read today that viewing figures have plummeted for BBC One’s newest reality show Castaway, and I am shocked and perturbed.

I am a definite Castaway addict. I find it so refreshing to watch a reality TV show that doesn’t contain a cast of cartoon characters, and ones that have actual tasks of practical importance.

I started this series as a Danny Wallace virgin, and in the two shows I have seen and also my daily dose of Danny’s Diary, I am now a complete and utter 100% Danny fan. He looks great in front of a camera, is funny without being smarmy and last but not least….he’s not Patrick Kielty.

Come on people give it a go……in no time at all you’ll be an addict like sad old me!

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