Sitting down with Kerri-Anne Kennerley a week before she was whisked away to South Africa, we're quick to express our disbelief that the queen daytime TV is of Australian going on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!.
"Yes, well, I would have bet money on it that we wouldn't be having this chat," she laughs. "They've asked me every year for 12 years, and I was never going to do it, but timing is a beautiful thing," she adds.
And that timing certainly came around quickly - just last November Woman's Day sat down with the Australian TV legend and it was still, even then, a firm "no". "People don't need to see that side of me," she said at the time.
And yet here we are, about to see that very raw, hungry and heavily sleep-deprived side the glamorous star promised she'd never lay bare.
So how in the hell did Ten manage to coerce her out of her million-dollar home in the well-heeled suburb of Double Bay, Sydney, and into the humid, creepy crawly infested South African jungle?
"Well, I had a couple of suggestions, which it would appear they agreed to," she giggles tellingly. "Look, I'm not going in without makeup and my skincare. I wear 50+ sunscreen and I want a little blush or a little lippie. Nothing too over the top. I'm not going to go unnatural." Kerri-Anne, 69, also adds that given her two recent knee replacements, she's not going to jeopardise her doctor's work by jumping out of a helicopter or scaling the cliff face of a rocky mountain - not for any number of stars.
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