Roman Kemp has warned his father Martin Kemp that he will get his own back on him after the pop icon sent a tweet about his son when he was in the I’m A Celebrity jungle
Roman Kemp has issued a playful warning to his father, Martin Kemp, ahead of the latter’s stint on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! this month.
Martin, 64, is set to follow in the footsteps of his son Roman, 32, who braved the jungle alongside other celebrities in the 2019 series.
Roman, who secured third place in that series, was reminiscing about his time on the show and recalled the moment he faced one of the ITV programme’s notorious Bushtucker Trials.
The Celebrity Race Across the World star revealed that when he was selected by the public for an eating challenge, he initially thought he had done something to upset viewers.
However, it later transpired that the voting may have been influenced by Martin encouraging his social media followers to see his son tackle one of the dreaded trials.
During a chat on Roman and Tom Grennan’s podcast ‘You About?’, The One Show host confronted his dad about the incident and vowed to get even.
He said: “I need to get you back. I need to get you back because, I don’t know if you remember, you sent out a tweet when I was in there.
“I thought, obviously, when you’re getting voted to do trials, I thought, ‘Oh my God the public must hate you, that’s why they’re picking you to do these trials’. I thought, ‘Oh it’s because I’ve done something wrong’.
“Turns out when I came out, having gone through the paranoia of that, it was because you tweeted something being like, ‘I want to see my son eat kangaroo b*******’.”
Martin responded: “I was the ringleader, to be honest with you.”
The father-of-two has since released a heartfelt statement after landing in Australia for the annual ITV staple. In his statement, the musician expressed that he would miss his family the most during his time on the show.
Meanwhile, in an Instagram post announcing his participation, Martin referred to his son’s previous appearance on the show, writing: “I’m heading into the jungle. People keep asking if I’m scared of snakes or spiders… The truth is, I’m more scared of Roman’s face if I don’t make it as far as he did.”
While Martin prepares for I’m A Celeb, Roman is featuring on BBC’s Race Across the World with his sister Harleymoon Kemp, where they will compete against three other celebrity duos while travelling over 5,900km across Central America on a shoestring budget.
Race Across The World continues on Thursday November 13 at 8pm on BBC One.