Homes Under the Hammer’s Martin Roberts was deeply touched by a ‘sweet’ gesture from Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
The 24th series of the popular ITV jungle show is currently in progress, featuring celebrities such as Coleen Rooney, McFly’s Danny Jones and Strictly’s Oti Mabuse. Martin, who participated in I’m A Celebrity in 2016 and was the seventh star to be voted off, was recently mentioned on the ITV show.
In a recent episode, Ant and Dec referred to Martin while discussing an iconic scene from his series. After the campmates were seen performing Singin’ In The Rain, Dec joked: “Singin’ In The Rain? Bit late, a bit Homes Under the Hammer” to which Ant responded: “Shut up Martin” as Dec noted: “Ooh deep-cut callback to 2016, I like it.”
Speaking exclusively about the mention, Martin confessed it ‘made my day’. He said: “It was really sweet! I absolutely jumped out of my chair and started whooping because you do think since then there’s been about 100 campmates gone through.
“It was just really nice that they both remembered and I do get a lot of people still coming up to me still saying how much they enjoyed my time on the show. But to have that little mention they will probably never realise that it was really sweet and definitely made my day!”
Martin shared his delight on Instagram about being mentioned by Ant and Dec on the previous night’s I’m a Celeb, writing: “What a nice surprise to get a mention from Ant and Dec on last nights ‘I’m a Celeb’. I can’t believe it’s 8 years ago that I was on. But it’s lovely that people still come up to me saying they remember and enjoyed my antics in the jungle #ImACeleb @imacelebrity.”
In an exclusive chat, Martin also offered pearls of wisdom to this year’s celebs exiting the jungle, explaining: “It’s a bit of a comedown! It’s an initial flurry of craziness, you know, you’ve got all the press, all your family, it’s intense, and that’s fine for a little bit but then after a week or so life does return to normal.”
He continued, reflecting on the adjustment period: “After you’ve been through that, like any experience, I think that does take a bit of getting used to, it’s very easy to be looking around going: ‘Right okay, what’s going on now, what’s going to happen now? I’m ready’… well, nothing actually, because everything takes a long time in terms of whatever it is career or projects you’ve got going on.”
Martin concluded with advice for reacclimating post-show: “You just have to accept it was an amazing experience, treasure it and give yourself time to ease back into normality, which after that kind of experience is not easy.”