Bookies are suggesting that football referee Mike Dean is a 'dead cert' to go into the new series of I'm A Celebrity.
It was a few months ago that the well known face was first linked with a stint on the hit ITV show and now his name has been tipped again, with him heading up the odds this week.
Prior to the end of the season, a spokesperson for Ladbrokes said: "With Mike Dean seemingly set to call it a day on the refereeing front, we wouldn't be surprised in the slightest to see I'm A Celebrity chiefs snap up the one man in football fans love to hate."
He added: "And were he to head Down Under later this year, you can expect to see records broken for number of Bushtucker Trials voted for, in an epic act of supporter revenge."
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And now he's officially retired, odds on the ref being a campmate when I'm A Celebrity switches back to Australia later this year have been shortened again. Sporting betting site OLBG have him at 4/5 to go into the jungle. And it's another big name from the world of football who is just behind him in the current odds, with much loved pundit Chris Kamara on 15/8.
Just behind him is former Strictly contestant Laila Rouass, best known for playing diva WAG Amber Gates in ITV drama Footballers Wives, back in the 00s.
Weeks after his 19-year-old daughter Gemma entered the Love Island villa, Michael Owen is also among the contenders for I'm A Celebrity 2022, with his odds currently at 9/1.
Ahead of him on odds of 4/1 each are another pair of football stars, Peter Crouch and Neil Warnock, while, further down the list, both on 50/1 as things stand are Piers Morgan and Peter Kay.
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