Castaway winner, Jonathan Shearer has placed an advertisement in a magazine begging for someone to give him something exciting to do.

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!

Live on Sunday night’s final episode of Castaway on BBC One, Scotsman Jonathan Shearer was voted the ultimate Castaway by viewers of the series.

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.”

Today on Danny’s TV Diary you can see Jonathan Shearer on the warpath.

He knows there is a traitor (or two) in their midst, and can’t believe that after the group agreed not to vote for the person who had contributed least, many cracked and many voted for Jason Ross. Jason has now been sent into isolation for a week and his mate is FURIOUS!

The first person to incur his wrath was Alister Cooling the fantasy writer. Alister stupidly admitted to Jonathan that he didn’t crack under pressure but simply wanted to nominate Jason as he believed it was the right thing to do.

Bad move. We have already seen how Jonathan can hold a grudge, and this is now escalating into a major grudge. Jonathan has now branded Al as group traitor, leaving all those who similarly voted for Jason quaking in their boots…..Makes great TV doesn’t it!

Well I just caught the first Castaway show on BBC1, and I can see it’s going to be a busy three months.

Well done BBC! A great mix of characters, a great situation, a great show! It’s as compelling as Big Brother before they started putting cartoon characters in the infamous house.

I can see that Jonathan is going to become an important character in the group. My husband hates him, but I actually think he will help to keep the show alive and vibrant. I would hate to have to live with Jonathan, but I predict that I’ll be quite happy to watch his antics a few nights a week from 18,000 miles away via the wonder of television.

Roll on Castaway 2007!

Name: Jonathan Shearer
Age: 41
From: Benbecula, Scotland
Occupation: Education Officer – RSPB
Relationship Status: Recently fallen in love
Star Sign: Pisces
Motto: “Do what though wilt shall be the whole of the law”

After spending many years living and working abroad as a migrant worker in countries such as Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Vietnam and Nigeria, Jonathan admits that “humans make me sad” and leads a nomadic lifestyle on Benbecula Island in Scotland.

Jonathan has spent the most of his life working as a teacher, but lists other jobs as ranging from being a professional psychic, sewer digging, and zoo keeping to banking, refuge work for the Lumhotlz’s tree kangaroo, fortune telling and tarot card reading. He says he even considered being a monk admitting that “the monks didn’t want me”.

Previously divorced, Jonathan has recently returned from Croatia where he fell in love with a woman he met online whilst setting up a bird sanctuary over there. Jonathan claims he will not miss a thing whilst on the island and he “cannot wait to get away!”