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January 28, 2010

Sun’s MacKenzie to appear on ITV reality show

By Press Gazette

The Sun revealed today that its former editor and resident columnist Kelvin MacKenzie is to appear on our screens in Marco Pierre White’s latest ITV cook off, Kitchen Burnout.

A reality TV show? Just a couple of weeks ago, MacKenzie proudly wrote in his column that he’d turned down £75,000 to appear on Channel 4’s Celebrity Big Brother

His price tag for being cut off from the outside world for 26 days was closer to £375,000, he wrote. Apparently, the programme’s producers never got back to him after that.

So has ITV made a better offer or is MacKenzie feeling the January pinch just like everyone else?

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