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EastEnders legend Davood Ghadami isn’t keen on appearing on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, but if he changes his mind, he has gained ample experience of eating animal parts some would be nauseated by. Speaking exclusively in an interview with Express.co.uk, he explained: “I feel like I had my own little I’m a Celebrity experience back home when I was a kid.”
Revealing that his dad picked it up from a speciality store and that some cultures consider it a delicacy, he explained that he’s tried sheep testicles too, as it was in the “same takeaway bag my father brought home”. “I suppose if you can eat the flesh, why not eat the offal and stuff too?” he quizzed.
“I’m pretty sure this sounds awful, doesn’t it?” he chuckled, before assuring Express.co.uk: “We don’t do it very often. It was literally a one-off!” Meanwhile, he mused: “The one food that’s always fascinated me is the vomit fruit, which I think has the key to it in the name. Why would you even want to try it?
“But this is where people get tested. I don’t think I would fare very well in the I’m A Celebrity environment, put it that way!” Davood added that it isn’t the type of food he’d have to eat that would concern him about the show, but instead the prospect of going hungry, as his ravenous appetite is his “downfall”.
“I am a person who gets hangry very quickly and having spoken to a few guys who have actually done the show before, there aren’t any secret meals,” he explained. “They don’t bring little pizzas in when the cameras aren’t on them. You eat very little and you sleep very little and you get given these tasks and they’re really uncomfortable.”
As he’s tee-total, the prospect of going without alcohol wouldn’t faze Davood in the slightest, and he acknowledges he’s eaten “some crazy stuff” in his time – but he’s never sacrificed creature comforts in an extreme way.
“It really brings it down to the basics to take away things like your basic comforts [and] I don’t know if it’s for me to be honest,” he declared.
“I think it would be very, very challenging for me because I just love my food. I’m not going to lie to you. It’s my downfall.”
Meanwhile, Davood is slightly squeamish about watching the show on-screen now, although he often tuned into it in the past.
“Watching people suffer in that way, I don’t get as much of a kick out of it now,” Davood explained.
However, he added that he was very supportive of fellow EastEnders star Danielle Harold on the 2023 series, sympathising: “She deserves an easy life!”
Davood also addressed whether he’d accept an invitation from EastEnders bosses in the future if they wanted to bring his character “back from the dead”.
Despite Kush having a “grisly” ending back in 2021 when he was thrown under a London Underground train by rival Gray Atkins (played by Toby Alexander-Smith), he teased: “You never saw the body, so you never know [if I could come back one day]!”
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