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GAY top cop Brian Paddick has signed up for the jungle — alongside Wimbledon ace Martina Navratilova, TV Biz can reveal.

The Met’s ex-deputy commissioner, 50, will be munching on bugs just months after losing his bid to become London Mayor.

The police chief, who retired last year, is best known for telling his officers not to bother nicking people found with cannabis.

Meanwhile, lesbian tennis ace Martina, 52, will fly to Australia from her home in Florida to join I’m A Celebrity, which starts on ITV1 on Sunday.

She has been called the greatest tennis player who ever lived, and won Wimbledon a record NINE times.

Ex-EastEnder Joe Swash, 26 — who played soap hearthrob Mickey Miller — flew out from Heathrow Airport yesterday to join the camp in Murwillumbah, New South Wales — just as TV Biz revealed weeks ago.

Other names headed Down Under are MP-turned-presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk, 66, Blue singer Simon Webbe, 29, telly favourite Esther Rantzen, 68, and former TV presenter Dani Behr, 37.

They will be among ten celebs in the camp — with ITV chiefs announcing the full line-up today.

A show source said: “It’s going to be a fantastic year. As always the production team have gone all out to get some great and interesting names into the jungle.”

Sun