Oti Mabuse set for major career boost as thrilled TV execs plan to build on I’m A Celebrity fame
OTI Mabuse is set to land a new chat show on the back of her I’m a Celeb success.
TV execs have made contact with her representatives to discuss it after seeing her hold moving conversations with campmates.
In one emotional scene, former pop star Reverend Richard Coles opened up to Oti about the death of his husband David.
Dancing on Ice judge Oti, 34, already had a large fanbase from her time as a pro on Strictly, and that has grown during her time in the jungle.
A source close to the South African told The Sun: “Oti’s team have had an overwhelmingly positive response to how she’s been with her campmates.
“She’s a really warm person and people feel at ease in her presence, and that’s why she is able to get them to open up.
“She has impressed TV bosses and they’ve been ringing her camp about the possibility of doing a chat show.”
One option is a show which sees her team up with her campmate, McFly singer Danny Jones, 38, after she formed a good bond with him.
The mum-of-one had a brief stint fronting her own ITV programme, Oti Mabuse’s Breakfast Show, on Saturdays last year.
Speaking in the Bush Telegraph after his chat with Oti, Richard, 62, said: “I love Oti, we know each other — we did Strictly together. Oti knew David, my late partner.
“And it’s a difficult conversation to have sometimes. “But I think when someone is frank and candid and open with you, and generous, then be frank, and open, and candid and generous back.”
Oti’s dancer husband Marius Iepure, 42, jetted into Australia with their one-year-old daughter and the star’s mum Dudu earlier this week.