NO JOKE

FRESH FROM GIVING AUDIENCES AN EYEFUL IN THE JUNGLE ON I’M A CELEBRITY, STAND-UP COMIC JOEL DOMMETT TELLS US HIS TRAINING SECRETS AND WHY YOU CAN HAVE TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING…

GETTING FIT’S

WORDS: ADAM DUXBURY PHOTOGRAPHY: MARKUS BIDAUX

What irst made you interested in itness?

I think I’ve just always been interested. But it’s only in the past couple of years that I really got into it and I think that stemmed from my fear of being single. I was into it slightly when I was in a relationship, and then I left that relationship and suddenly I started doing sit-ups.

So it was to look good for someone else?

I think just to look good for anyone else. I thought: “OK, I gotta shape up because I want to ind a high calibre of person.” I think that’s what happens to a lot of people; you get single and then you get it. And then you realise, you know what? You can do all the sit-ups in the world but maybe you have to work on your heart irst. “How are you gonna love somebody else if you can’t love yourself?” as RuPaul famously asked.

And besides the concerns of being single, did you feel extra pressure to step up your itness going into the jungle on I’m a Celebrity?

I kind of did. I just generally did a lot of itness anyway so I didn’t have to step it up that much. I didn’t go on a crazy intense workout schedule before I went in or anything. For a week before you go in, you’re locked in a hotel and you have your phone taken from you so basically all you can do is work out.