MCFLY singer Danny Jones is set to join I’m A Celebrity — and he’ll be hoping for his bandmates’ luck in the jungle.
The group’s bassist Dougie Poynter won the show in 2011 — and nine years later Giovanna Fletcher, wife of singer Tom, did the same.
Danny, 38, is also considered a rising star on ITV as he’s now one of the mentors on their Saturday night talent show, The Voice, along with bandmate Tom.
A jungle insider said: “As well as bringing some of the star appeal of the group with him, he’ll be supplying some serious guy candy for the campmates and viewers at home.
“All the McFly guys are gym fanatics and Danny in particular has a great physique – which he’s bound to show off in the jungle.
“He’ll be keeping up with the proud tradition of I’m A Celebrity hunks who’ve been on the show over the years including Owen Warner and Joel Dommett.
“And he’ll fill the jungle hunk gap left by Tommy Fury after he declined the opportunity earlier this month.”
Bolton-born Danny married model and former Miss England, Georgia Horsley, in 2014 and they have a six year old son.
As well as being a mentor on The Voice he also won this year’s series of The Masked Singer disguised as “Piranha”.
Danny is on a particular high this year as McFly are celebrating the 21st anniversary of their debut single, Five Colours in Her Hair.
The hit and its follow up, Obviously, topped the charts, making McFly one of the hottest boybands of the Noughties.
After recording their fifth studio album in 2010, Dougie, 36, went into I’m a Celebrity and won over campmates and viewers with his cheeky charm.
The band then went on a three-year hiatus in 2016, before Tom’s wife Giovanna emerged as the surprise Jungle Queen of 2020.
The Sun recently revealed wag Coleen Rooney has signed up for the new series – securing the biggest deal in the show’s history.
Coleen’s fee is understood to be way beyond Nigel Farage’s £1.5million last year.
This year’s I’m A Celebrity starts on November 16.
ONCE the noise has died down, what people really need to know from a Budget is how it affects them.
No one was expecting this one to be a champagne-popping affair with bags of giveaways.
Most people have been in a brace position ever since Chancellor Rachel Reeves called off Labour’s brief honeymoon in the summer with her cold decision to cut Winter Fuel Payments and warnings of painful choices.
The reality is sadly even more sober. And that’s even if you include having to glug around 500 draught pints to make the penny off worth a free pint.
This was a Budget that was meant to justify raising taxes by £40billion — the biggest tax burden in living memory — to rebuild the country and get the economy growing again.
Except even that big, bold ambition hasn’t worked.
You won’t be alone in thinking, “What’s the point of it all?”
The Budget will deliver a brief sugar-rush of growth in the next year, which will enable Reeves to point to it as a sign her plan is working.
But critically, the Budget watchdog has predicted the economy will actually have lower growth by the end of Parliament.
This is enormously important because it feeds into how well we all live our lives.
The Chancellor’s decision to binge on tax burdens will be passed on to us all in the form of higher prices.
We already know from the pain of the cost-of-living crisis that this feeds nasty inflation, which means we can afford less with the money we earn.
Inflation won’t shoot back as high as the horrors of 11 per cent last year, but it will stay stubbornly above the golden target of two per cent.
As a result, the Bank of England will be slower to cut interest rates next year.
This will continue to make mortgages more expensive when millions of us have to refinance on to higher rates.
And due to the Chancellor’s stamp duty changes, more than nine in ten homes sold from March will incur duty, including for first-time buyers. So much for property ladder hopes.
While the Chancellor claimed her Budget will put “more pounds in people’s pockets” it will mean the average family will be £770 worse off in real terms by October 2029 compared to today, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
We already know from the pain of the cost-of-living crisis that this feeds nasty inflation, which means we can afford less with the money we earn
Couples with children will be even harder hit and £1,760 worse off, its analysis says.
The biggest issue with the Budget is Reeves’ verbal gymnastics over National Insurance contributions.
While the Chancellor claimed she was sticking to her manifesto promise of not raising NI for workers, instead she has targeted the biggest tax rise possible — a whopping £25.7billion — by passing on a big hike in NI contributions to employers.
You might argue, “Great, at least it’s not coming from my pay packet.” Except, it will in the future.
Yesterday, the Institute for Fiscal Studies slammed the Chancellor for this falsehood, saying: “The continued pretence that these changes will not affect working people risks further undermining trust.”
The Budget watchdog has already said 76 per cent of the cost of employers footing the bill will actually feed into lower real wages.
This means it will be harder to ask for pay rises or get a job in the first place — because it will become unbearably expensive for some businesses to take or keep staff on.
And this is on top of Labour’s workers’ rights reforms, which the Government’s own documents say add £5billion to the cost of business.
There is good news if you are one of the three million workers on minimum wage.
The Chancellor confirmed a 6.7 per cent pay rise, from £11.44 an hour to £12.21, from April.
Those on state benefits will also get a boost with Universal Credit rising by 1.7 per cent next April.
This will work out as an extra £1.50 a week from £90.55, and couples will get £2.50 extra a week from the current level of £145.13.
The amount of debt repayments that can be taken from a household’s Universal Credit payment each month has been reduced from 25 per cent to 15 per cent, which the Government claims will put £420 a year more in the pockets of claimants.
However, what of the rest of the 27million workers in Britain?
The cost of hiring a staff member over 21 has become, on average, £2,500 more expensive overnight, according to analysis by UK Hospitality.
This will lead to companies making tough choices on growing, hiring and investing.
The biggest issue with the Budget is Reeves’ verbal gymnastics over National Insurance contributions
Those hated self-scanning tills will become more commonplace because they will be significantly cheaper than human workers.
The one upshot for ambitious workers is that the Chancellor has removed the freeze on income tax thresholds, which automatically nudge people into a higher rate of tax.
But you will have to wait until 2029 for the benefit — conveniently just before the election year.
It’s enough to make you reach for a stiff drink.
Except an increase in duty on spirits has just made that more expensive too.
RACHEL Reeves has provoked fury after admitting her Budget tax raid on business will hit workers in the pocket.
The Chancellor conceded that hard-working employees will be affected by their bosses paying more National Insurance to the tune of £25billion unless firms soak up the costs.
It came as the Tories said the average working household could face an annual £2,238 tax grab — up by around £200 on their previous estimate.
The row over tax hikes — totalling £40billion — erupted as it emerged Ms Reeves told voters three months before the election: “We don’t need higher taxes, what we need is growth.”
But she said yesterday: “I said that it will have consequences.
“It will mean that businesses will have to absorb some of this through profits and it’s likely to mean that wage increases might be slightly less than they otherwise would have been.”
Tory leadership contender Robert Jenrick claimed the Budget had been a “Halloween horror show”.
He added: “This was the biggest political heist in modern British history.”
He told Sky News: “£40billion of tax rises hurting people across this country and just three months ago the Labour Party won an election on a pledge not to raise taxes. I’m afraid Rachel Reeves is acting like a compulsive liar.”
The charity sector has expressed concerns over the impact of the National Insurance haul from employers.
National Council for Voluntary Organisations boss Sarah Elliott warned it will put “another strain” on them.
Meanwhile, Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned the raid will not raise “anything like” £25billion.
The Budget measures mean that by 2028 weekly wages will have risen by just £13 in real terms in two decades.
Mike Brewer of the Resolution Foundation said: “The short-term effect of these changes will be better-funded public services.
“But families are also set for a further squeeze on living standards as the rise in employer National Insurance dampens wage growth.”
ASHLEY Roberts is a sight as a sheet as she dresses as Kylie Minogue for Halloween.
The 43-year-old paid tribute to her iconic 2001 Can’t Get You Out of My Head video by going braless in the slashed and hooded dress.
Radio DJ and former Pussycat Doll Ashley posted the images on Instagram — with one follower writing: “Better than the original.”
Presenter Ashley is certainly no stranger to sending fans wild with her racy social media posts.
She recently sizzled in snaps taken on holiday in Spain, showing her posing in a barely-there thong bikini.
Meanwhile, during a recent staycation, Ashley was seen stripping totally naked for a snap in the bath.
Back in 2022, Ashley told how she felt “more connected” to her body after turning 40.
At the time, The Real Dirty Dancing host said: “As you get older you start giving less f***s.
“You are more connected to yourself and wiser.
“I feel excited about the years to come because I feel better than how I felt in my twenties.
“Part of how I express my femininity is feeling sexy.
“It makes me sad to think about women not allowing themselves to feel that as we continue on.
“I’m like, ‘Let’s get our sassy, fierce, feminine sides out there. Let’s embrace that part of ourselves.’