Spandau Ballet legend Martin Kemp opens up to the Mirror ahead of his stint in the I’m a Celebrity jungle, which starts on Monday, as he shared a crucial health update
Musician Martin Kemp has spoken in detail for the first time about the horror chainsaw accident that saw him rushed to hospital just weeks before heading into the I’m A Celebrity jungle.
The Spandau Ballet legend, 64, was taken to hospital after trying to cut a piece of wood in the garden of his Hertfordshire home, with son Roman later revealing his dad had been “lucky not to lose his hand”.
Roman told listeners on his podcast that the family first realised something was wrong when Martin sent a photo of his heavily bandaged fingers to their WhatsApp.
Now, speaking as he prepares to enter camp, Martin admitted it was a freak moment of bad luck. “I was taking the scabbard off,” he said. “It was electric and it came to life.”
He added: “It was about three weeks ago now. It got reported I had done it, and then it was reported in a paper ten days after, so by then it was already on the mend. It has all healed up. It is pretty amazing how skin heals like that. It was my own fault, nobody else’s.”
The injury was serious enough for a hospital trip, but he insisted it was just cautionary. “It was really just for an injection to make sure everything was all right,” he explained. “They wrapped it up and that was it.”
Crucially for ITV bosses, there was never a point where he thought the accident might rule him out of the jungle. He was already looking ahead to the show and to the notorious Bushtucker Trials, although is worried about the eating trials.
“I do not think I am going to get given a burger in there at all,” laughed Martin, who says he and wife Shirlie are “practically vegan” at home, even if he still eats meat on the road.
Despite the scare, he insists the near miss has not dented his appetite for throwing himself into challenges. Although he fears that Roman, who has appeared previously in the jungle, is going to influence things.
“I don’t think it’s the public that’s going to target me….it’s Roman who is going to bring all his followers to target me,” he laughs.
Source: Mirror
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