Nigel Farage took a hilarious swipe at the European Union as he appeared in front of a live audience in Birmingham.
Farage, who placed third on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here, presented his GB News show for the final time in 2023.
The ex-politician, who campaigned for Brexit and is the honorary president of Reform UK, made a tongue-in-cheek comment during the introduction to his show this evening.
Speaking in front of the live audience, he said: “Personally, I’ve had a pretty cracking year. I’ve just come back from a little trip and this audience have seen a lot of me. In fact, the country has seen an awful lot of me. Doing the jungle was a really good thing to do, it was a chance for me as a person to conquer my fears.
“If you had said to me a couple of months ago that I would lie in a darkened box, six feet under the ground, where the European Parliament had always wanted to put me, and then to cover me with 20 snakes, I wouldn’t have believed it.”
Farage is back to presenting his show after his jungle stint – which saw reality star Sam Thompson crowned the winner.
He has since been tipped for a political comeback, leaving a tantalising “I haven’t made up my mind” when asked about his desire to step back into the fray.
He said that his 23 nights on the show had given him access to a whole new group of voters “who were 12 years old at the time of the referendum”.
He went on: “Secondly there were people out their who have come to hate me because of what was written about me. I did think this was a real opportunity. You can’t really pretend over three and a half weeks to pretend to be what you are not. The number of people over the first few days who have said to me ‘Nigel we never liked you before but now we think you are a normal ordinary bloke’.”
He added: “So I think it has done me a lot of good and there’s some polling out among 2019 Conservative voters suggesting a 20 percent shift in my favour.”
Fellow GB News host Camilla Tominey laughed, asking: “Why are you looking at polling about your political favour?”
Farage responded: “People send it to me and let’s face it voters are people.”
