If you’re wondering “what’s occurring” with Gavin & Stacey’s Joanna Page, she may be swapping Barry Island’s fairground for Bushtucker trials very soon.
The Welsh actor, 49, is the latest star rumoured to be in talks for I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!’s forthcoming series.
Page is best known for starring as Stacey Shipman in BBC One’s hit sitcom, which came to an end with its record-breaking Christmas special in 2024 – the most-watched scripted show in over two decades.
According to The Sun, Page is in advanced talks to be a 2026 campmate with a source saying that “all the signs are looking positive”.
They added that she would be “a coup” for ITV given her popular role on Gavin & Stacey. “She has confided in friends that she’s really keen to take part and wants to go on and make her children proud.”
A spokesperson for ITV told The Independent that any names suggested are just speculation.
Beginning her acting career in the late Nineties, Page took on roles in David Copperfield and Love Actually, playing the role of sex scene stand-in Judy opposite Martin Freeman’s John. After finding fame on Gavin & Stacey in 2007, she took on roles in Doctor Who, BBC drama The Syndicate and Midsomer Murders.
I’m a Celeb wouldn’t be Page’s first foray into reality TV; she was revealed to be the star behind Pig on The Masked Dancer in 2022 and has competed on Cooking with the Stars and Taskmaster. Page was also a regular panellist on ITV’s Loose Women from 2023 until 2024.
Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly will be back on our screens later this year for I’m a Celeb’s 26th series – with a number of celebrities already rumoured to be eyeing up the jungle.
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Dancing on Ice’s Christopher Dean is reportedly in talks to take part after the ITV skating competition was cancelled this year, while Strictly Come Dancing pro Nadiya Bychkova could also sign up after being canned from the BBC title as part of a cast shake-up.
Other rumoured contestants include Mis-Teeq singer Su-Elise Nash, cricketer Ben Stokes, KISS radio presenter and Diversity dancer Perri Kiely, and ex Love Island star Olivia Attwood – who originally competed on I’m a Celeb in 2022 but was forced to quit after just one day.
She left the show “as a precautionary measure” in order to “undergo some medical checks”, and has since suggested she would return to the show if her busy schedule permitted.
The show will return later this year, with series typically kicking off in November.
