Frank too frightened to appear on my ghost show, jokes Christine
CHRISTINE Lampard has admitted that her football star husband Frank would be too terrified to appear on her new “haunted hotel” TV show.
Celebrity guests check into Celebrity Haunted Hotel Live, which the presenter fronts with Matt Richardson, later this month.
The 37-year-old, from Newtownards, said she would love to see Simon Cowell take part in the series after the X Factor judge admitted that he believes in ghosts.
But she also admitted that her footballer husband (38), who she wed in December, would not set foot in the hotel.
“Frank believes (in ghosts). He could easily be scared. He wouldn’t stay in this hotel, put it that way. He really wouldn’t,” Lampard — formerly Bleakley — said.
Celebrity guests will be announced before the series — featuring “sleepovers, terrifying tasks, gripping ghost stories and edge-of-seat paranormal investigations” — kicks off.
New names check in each night and viewers will be able to vote for them to take part in “live investigations”.
Lampard added: “I would like to see someone who you’d think wouldn’t be scared. Someone out of their comfort zone, like adventurer Bear Grylls. People who are quite ballsy, but then you can genuinely see the fear in their eyes.”
The show is Lampard’s first big series after a year in which she has been mostly out of the limelight. “To do something live gets the blood pumping again,” she said. “I love the idea that anything could happen and I have to be on my toes.
“It’s a great show to get your teeth back into.”
Lampard — currently filling in for Holly Willoughby on This Morning — said she had been enjoying married life.
“It feels exactly the same and incredibly different all rolled into one,” she added. “I feel very much still in the honeymoon period. I don’t know how much longer that will last. We’ve had a wonderful first year.”
Channel 4 is yet to announce the new presenting line-up for The Great British Bake Off, but Lampard has ruled herself out.
“I’ll leave that up to the baking pros... I’m very happy to be a viewer of Bake Off,” she said.
Celebrity Haunted Hotel Live launches on Thursday, October 27 at 9pm for five nights.