Sunday People

Boris ‘friend Jen to go on Celebrity Hunted

- By Patrick Hill

BORIS Johnson’s former tech teacher Jennifer Arcuri is making her reality TV debut – on Channel 4’s Hunted.

The American IT expert hit the headlines over what she called a “very special relationsh­ip” with the PM.

Now she will be hitting our screens in a celebrity spin-off featuring ex-coppers trailing amateur fugitives.

But viewers looking forward to seeing the coding expert in action will have a wait because filming has been put back to next year.

She told the Sunday

People: “Everything has been delayed but I just got an email from Celebrity Hunted.

“We were due to shoot in September and they now want to do something in April next year. I’m dying to come back to the UK.”

Last October we revealed how the La-based cybersecur­ity expert wanted to start a reality TV career.

She held early talks with a number of shows, including Dancing On Ice, I’m A Celebrity and Loose Women.

And she also appeared twice on Good Morning Britain, where she was interviewe­d by Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid.

Jennifer, 35, was previously a tech advisor to Mr Johnson and gave him regular lessons at her flat in Shoreditch, East London, which memorably included a dancing pole.

Affair

She went on three foreign trade trips led by Mr Johnson when he was London mayor between 2008 and 2016 and her business received £126,000 in public money.

It is claimed he failed to register a direct interest in promoting her while having an alleged four-year affair but he denies impropriet­y.

Four probes have been launched into the PM’S relationsh­ip with Jennifer but this week it emerged he will not face criminal charges.

Sources suggested the Independen­t Office for Police Conduct had found some evidence of a possible “intimate relationsh­ip” but it was

“unnecessar­y” to launch a criminal investigat­ion.

A source last night said: “The producers are really excited about signing up

Jennifer. She’s got a great personalit­y and is very intelligen­t so she’ll be really good to watch and is likely to give the hunters a real run for their money.

“They think she’s a perfect fit for the show and will make brilliant TV.”

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