PARALYMPIAN Ade Adepitan has vowed that he will smash the taxing Celebrity Cyclone obstacle course challenge — to make his five-year-old son proud.
Ade, 53, who will make history tonight as the , said he wants Bolla to see him battle up the water, slime and wind-blasted slope in the fans’ favourite game.
But before he can attempt place the team contest’s big yellow stars in their designated slots, gutsy Ade says he must seize his opportunity to show the public he is able to “find a way” to make the final four.
Father-of-two Ade, who won a wheelchair bronze at the 2004 , told The Sun about his son’s reaction on learning he was to go on I’m a Celebrity . . .
He said: “His response was: ‘Daddy’s going to have to eat in that disgusting restaurant with . You have to eat crocodile butt’.
“Then he said: ‘But how’s Daddy going to do cyclops?’ He meant Cyclone , because he’d watched it.
“Many people will ask exactly the same question — ‘How is Ade going to do any of this?’
“I want this opportunity to show people that so many things are possible, and especially my kids.
“I want my son to be proud and to see that Daddy is going to give it a go and he’s going to find a way.
“And having said that, I’m going to have to find a way to stay in long enough to do Cyclone so I can say to my son: ‘It can be done. I can do it, so you can do it’.”
TV host Ade, who also has a daughter, Zayla, one, with Scottish singer-songwriter wife Linda Harrison, 36, paid a secret visit to the camp in February.
He spent a day showing producers what would need to change so he could safely move around it.
TONY HAS INSPIRED PAL RICKY
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SINGER Ricky Wilson has revealed former I’m A Celeb winner Tony Blackburn inspired him to sign up for the show.
The Kaiser Chiefs frontman, 48, credited the ex-BBC DJ and first King of the Jungle, 83, for his stint Down Under.
Ricky told The Sun: “The day before I flew out, I got a really nice message from Tony, who I am friends with.
“He’s been trying to get me to go for years. I think he is the main reason I have gone in, really.”
“I like him a lot and I trust him, and he thinks I will do rather well.”
He also credited a “friend who will remain nameless” for spurring each other on to go on I’m A Celebrity.
It comes amid rumours comedian Leigh Francis, a friend of Ricky, will be a late camp arrival.
Ricky, who had a No1 hit in 2007 with Ruby, also ruled out doing karaoke in the camp.
bosses have since checked every path and made adjustments including “parking bays” for his wheelchairs, rest stops and a hydraulic lift to help him shower.
Nigeria-born Ade, who lost the use of his left leg to as a tot and has only partial use of his right, said: “The jungle’s probably more accessible now than most houses I’ve lived in! But I know everything is going to be challenging. Just the time that I spent out there I was literally drenched in sweat.”
Ade, who grew up in East London, said he has been training in the gym with his brother, Adeolu.
He said: “I’ve been doing everything possible to keep myself in shape. I haven’t used crutches in this way since I was in school.
“I’ll be the first person to do this in a wheelchair and it’ll be the first time the public will see someone like me in this kind of situation. It could have a massive impact.”
