Star Trek’s Sulu Ready To Eat Kangaroo Balls

November in the UK: it’s cold, it gets dark about 4pm and we don’t even have Thanksgiving to look forward to. Instead, we have the annual humiliation-fest of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! where a number of desperate stars are flung into the Australian jungle for two weeks and have to perform fairly revolting tasks, usually involving eating animals’ dangly bits, to win food for the group. It’s TV gold, of course. Amongst the motley bunch of ex-pop stars, soap stars and former MPs that you will have never heard of (and ex-tennis champ Martina Navratilova), are usually a couple of maverick (sorry) US stars. We’ve had Janice Dickinson, David Gest, Huggy Bear from Starsky and Hutch on past years…and now we’ve got Sulu from Star Trek. Yes, George Takei will be the show’s oldest ever contestant and reckons it’s going to be a cakewalk.

“I’m physically fit. I used to run marathons, now I work out every day. I’m Japanese and love sushi. I’ve even eaten live fish. It was delicious.”

He’s clearly ready for anything. We’ll of course keep you updated with any career enlivening/destroying antics that pass as entertainment for the British public.

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