I’m A Celebrity star up for big EastEnders role – as character who quickly dies

I’m A Celebrity and First Dates star Fred Siriex has spoken about how he’d love to join the cast of EastEnders.

The TV personality, who works as a maître d on the Channel 4 show, has thought about being a part of EastEnders for so long, he’s even developed his own storyline.

‘That’d be amazing. That would be fantastic. [I’d love to be in] EastEnders. I can see myself, I’ve already written the lines actually’.

Continuing his chat with The Sun, Fred revealed: ‘I’d be playing I think a gangster. We just arrive there and then, I get killed’.

Clearly ready to put this plot into action, Fred added: ‘And there’s lots of things happening in between but at the end, I get killed and disappear and never be seen again in the square.’

‘We’re all a bit actors aren’t we?’, he continued.

‘I mean, in the restaurant industry that I spend all my life in, you know, you’ve got to be all things for all people, and you got to be there for your guests. So effectively, you’re kind of an actor you’re putting on a show every single day. But yes, being an actor in a movie would be amazing.’

Away from his role in First Dates, Fred is often seen heading on adventures with Gino D’Campo and Gordon Ramsay, in the ITV travel show Gordon, Gino and Fred’s Road Trip.

Fred starred in last year’s series of I’m A Celebrity, camping out in the Australian jungle alongside the likes of Sam Thompson and Josie Gibson.

Over in EastEnders, it’s going to be quite the week for Whitney Dean (Shona McGarty), who has just given birth after going into labour in a taco van.

This is Whit’s final storyline in the BBC One soap, as Shona McGarty will soon leave the show after 16 years.