Emily Atack reveals REAL reason she didn’t ‘do a Myleene Klass’ in shower
EMILY Atack has admitted she didn’t have an I’m A Celebrity shower moment for fears of being compared to Myleene Klass.
The actress and comedian became a household favourite on I’m A Celeb when she participated in 2018, placing second behind Harry Redknapp that year.
Mostly known until that point as the lusted-after Charlotte in comedy The Inbetweeners, I’m A Celebrity catapulted her career to include her own stand-up sketch show, modelling and TV presenting.
Appearing on Sunday Brunch today, Emily, 32, credits the ITV jungle show for giving her a platform to show off her more playful side to viewers, and noted that she had deliberately tried to avoid a “shower moment” like Myleene Klass became famed for back in 2006.
She told hosts Simon Rimmer and Tim Lovejoy: “I think everybody thought I was going to try and do a bit of a Myleene Klass in there, in the shower, and I just didn’t. I was running around being an idiot and just kind of showing people who I really was as a person.
“I think doing years of The Inbetweeners which was amazing, and doing all that stuff, I was always playing someone else and I think I wanted people to kind of see who I was as a person, because it’s often very different to what people kind of assume I am.”
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Well, viewers got the message loud and clear, with Emily in the four years since becoming one of ITV’s most prominent faces.
She became a regular face on Celebrity Juice, is now in the third season of The Emily Atack Show, and is due to appear in Iain Stirling’s sitcom, Buffering, which is currently filming season two.
And it looks like her love life might be on the up too, after cheekily asking for a Sunday Brunch crew member’s phone number after “having a bit of a hard time” following her split from Big Brother’s Liam Reardon.
Meanwhile, Myleene, 16 years after the iconic waterfall moment in a white bikini, looks set to return to I’m A Celebrity for an All-stars series, which will air at the beginning of next year.
In a leap away from the Australian jungle it’s known for, the All-Stars series will be set in South Africa.