Noel Edmonds will use his I'm A Celebrity appearance to continue his guerrilla war with Lloyds Bank and use it to supercharge his £60million legal claim against the lender.
The Deal or No Deal star, 69, is reportedly being paid £500,000 to appear in the Australian jungle and said today that every 'cockroach' will remind him of Lloyds' boss Antonio Horta Osorio.
In a series of video recordings released today the jungle's new Emperor said Lloyds will 'have to pay up', adding: 'I am totally convinced at trial we will win.'
Explaining his motivation for going on the ITV show, Mr Edmonds took aim at Lloyds chief executive.
He said: 'Hopefully I will stay in long enough that every time that I eat a cockroach millions of people will be thinking of Antonio Horta Osorio. And do you know what? I may even enjoy eating that cockroach.'
Noel Edmonds, the new I'm a Celebrity emperor, says if he eats cockroaches he'll be thinking of the Lloyds Bank boss he is pursuing for £60m
Mr Edmonds is starting legal actions and will use his TV appearance turn on Lloyds boss Antonio Horta Osorio (right)
He added: 'It's not going to do any harm to be in the jungle on ITV at peak time every single day for a few weeks'.
Mr Edmonds is seeking financial redress from the banking giant after falling victim to fraud by former staff at the Reading branch of HBOS, which Lloyds rescued at the height of the financial crisis.
Employee Lynden Scourfield, who was jailed for 11 years in 2017, enjoyed luxury holidays, trips on banker accomplice David Mills' superyacht and sex with porn stars including escort Suzie Best.
Noel is pursuing Lloyds for losses allegedly suffered when his former business Unique Group was destroyed because of the fraud.
Jonathan Coad, solicitor for Mr Edmonds, on Thursday served Lloyds with a pre-case letter, needed to initiate formal proceedings which could begin as soon as December.
Mr Edmonds has suggested that Mr Horta Osorio knew about the misdeeds of staff at HBOS, and on Wednesday claimed that the bank boss 'wants to destroy me, he wants to crush me'.
He also said that other Lloyds board members are at risk of police action over the case.
'There are members of the board who are really worried about what is really going on and there are senior executives who don't want to have their collars felt. They don't won't to be implicated when the warrants start to arrive, and they will arrive,' he said.
For its part, Lloyds has rejected the basis of Mr Edmonds' claim.
A Lloyds spokesman said: 'We are still waiting for Mr Edmonds to file his legal claim. If he does file his claim, it will be contested.'
Mr Coad, of Keystone Law, said: 'I have never been involved in a case where so much meticulous effort has been invested by so many to professionals to prepare a claim.
'In this case we have had first to unpick a sophisticated fraud, and then piece it together using primarily documentary evidence, but also some key evidence from witnesses to what was going on at the time.'
Earlier this year, Mr Edmonds secured a 'seven-figure' sum from specialist litigation funder Therium to bankroll the suit.
Therium, which helps fund lawsuits and then takes a portion of the damages if successful, is also behind a class action lawsuit against car giant Volkswagen over the emissions scandal.
The deal the TV star struck with the group also means he is insured against any costs orders that might be made against him.
Lloyds has set aside £100million for victims of the fraud at the hands of HBOS Reading staff between 2003 and 2007.
Corrupt financiers from the branch were jailed last year for the £245 million loans scam, which destroyed several businesses and saw the criminals squander the profits on high-end prostitutes and luxury holidays.
Lloyds added: 'We continue to make good progress compensating the approximately 70 customers impacted by the fraud at the HBOS Impaired Assets office based in Reading.
'We have now provided outcomes to more than 95% of customers in the review and more than 90% of these offers have been accepted.'
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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