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JLS star Marvin Humes, 39, has opened up about his time in the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! jungle a year on from the show and has shared an update on his family life
It’s been a whole year since Marvin Humes, the radio and TV sensation, bravely took the plunge from 15,000ft into the I’m A Celebrity jungle despite his fear of heights. Marvin, 39, endured three weeks on a basic diet alongside celebs like Sam Thompson, Josie Gibson, and Nigel Farage.
But in a candid chat with OK! magazine, Marvin gushes about the thing he’s most proud of his – his kids – and opens up on the discussion he and his wife Rochelle have had about adding a fourth to their brood. The couple, who married in 2012 and renewed their wedding vows after a decade, are already parents to their “amazing” children, Alaia-Mai, 11, Valentina, seven, and Blake, four, and Marvin says they’re entering a new stage of their life.
“We’re super proud parents and we’re lucky to have three wonderful children,” he revealed, before addressing whether they want another. “I can safely say we’re done. As I said, we’re very lucky that we’ve been very blessed with three beautiful children. We are at the point now where we can leave the house with just the children, nothing else – no buggies, no bags, no this, no that.”
As a fresh batch of stars get to grips with a less civilised existence in the jungle on series 24, Marvin has some “really boring” but sage advice. some sage advice. “They’ve got to make the food stretch,” he revealed. “I can’t tell you how much we take for granted things like salt and pepper and sugar and seasoning. The food is so, so bland. We would get a camel’s foot to eat and we would keep the skin just to flavour the rice! “.
Marvin, who just released a 15th anniversary album with JLS, has teamed up with Fairy for its #LoadsOfKindness, which he says is especially important in the Humes household, and at the kids’ school.
“When Rochelle and I have parents’ evening the most important thing we want to hear is that our children are kind,” he said. “It can be simple manners or asking how someone is and being polite. There is no magic handbook to parenting, we are all winging it and doing the best we can, but we want to instil kindness in our children like our parents did with us.”
Fairy Non Bio has teamed up with Paddington In Peru to celebrate kindness. Pledge your own act of kindness on social media using #LoadsOfKindness
