Corry Street star favourite for jungle king title

Ex-Coronation Street star Chris Bisson and cricketer Phil Tufnell are the bookies’ favourites to win the new series of I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here.

The pair are 4/1 favourites with bookmaker Ladbrokes to be crowned King of the Jungle.

Their fellow contestants on the ITV1 show are actress Danniella Westbrook, dancer Wayne Sleep, TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson, weathergirl Sian Lloyd, former footballer John Fashanu and Changing Rooms designer Linda Barker.

TV bosses promise that conditions in the bug-infested jungle will be even tougher than last year.

Ant and Dec will again present nightly shows and viewers will choose which celebrities they want to see undertake gruelling – and often gruesome – trials.

Fashanu is third favourite at 9/2, followed by Westbrook (5/1), Barker (6/1), Lloyd (13/2) and Sleep (7/1). Celebrity chef Worrall Thompson is the 8/1 outsider.

The first series of the show, won by veteran DJ Tony Blackburn, was a ratings hit and gave a career boost to contestants like Rhona Cameron and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson.

Programme makers Granada said two more celebrities may join the line-up before the programme begins later this month.