Harry Redknapp has a big advantage over his ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’ campmates because he has no sense of smell.
The football manager lost the ability to pick up odours after a road accident in Italy 18 years ago – which killed Bournemouth managing director Brian Tiler and three young Italians – when his minibus collided with a car.
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In his 2013 autobiography ‘Always Managing’, Harry – who has “no memory” of the incident – wrote: “I woke up in hospital.
“I had fractured my skull and many other bones, and suffered a horrific gash to my leg.
“I don’t think my life was ever in danger but I have never regained my sense of smell, not a complete disadvantage in some dressing rooms.”
While that bodes well for potentially awful camp and jungle scents – and possible fish guts in the Bushtucker Trials – the 71-year-old star has also revealed he can last a long time without eating.
He recently said: “I have got bad eating habits. I can go all day without eating until the evening. Eating won’t be a problem for me.”
Meanwhile, his son Jamie Redknapp has joked his biggest fear is seeing his dad in the reality show’s famous shower.
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He told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre TV column: “Dad hasn’t really got any phobias, to be honest. As a kid he was never worried about spiders. I’m worried about him with the shower scene in his pants!
“I hope he finds a mate in there because from people I’ve spoken to the hardest things are lack of food, but he doesn’t eat a lot my dad so that’s gonna help him, and secondly it’s the boredom factor, there’s no racing channel for him to watch.”
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The 18th series of I’m A Celebrity, hosted by Dec Donnelly and Holly Willoughby, begins on Sunday at 9pm