Coronation Street star Craig Charles has landed in Australia ready to take part in this year’s I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here.

Soap favourite Craig, who plays cabbie Lloyd Mullaney, is a surprise inclusion in the line-up, but landed at Brisbane Airport at the weekend ready to enter the reality TV show jungle on Sunday.

He joined pop star Tinchy Stryder, model Nadia Forde, motorbike champ Carl Fogarty and former Allo Allo actress Vikki Michelle as the first four celebrities to arrive in Australia for the reality show.

On arrival, Craig said: “I signed up because it’s an adventure isn’t it? It’s an ITV show, Coronation Street is an ITV show, they talked and said ‘get him in there’.

“It’s the one they all want to do, it the one all families sit down to watch.”

Craig insisted he was not scared of anything but insisted he was worried about being away from his loved ones.

He added: “Obviously I will miss my wife and kids, miss the football, and reading and writing, you can’t read in there. That will be difficult I suppose.”

Other confirmed names for the show include Mossley-raised TV presenter Melanie Sykes and TOWIE star Gemma Collins - although neither have yet arrived in Brisbane.

Among rumoured contestants include ex-Corrie star Michelle Keegan, former Hollyoaks beauty Gemma Merna, The Wanted’s Max George and boxer Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton.