Newly announced I'm A Celebrity contestant

Jack Skipper has just been announced as one of the contestants in this year's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here. 

But compared to some of his fellow camp-mates, the stand-up from Sutton, South London, is little known outside the worlds of comedy and online entertainment.

Now 38, Skipper went from fitting carpets to full-time comedy after building a following with short sketch videos online. He was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for his debut show, Skint.

Skipper had no formal qualifications and worked as a carpet fitter before comedy. He had his first stand-up gig booked in when the first Covid lockdown was imposed, so began making character videos for TikTok and Instagram, drawing on everyday situations. They have since collected millions of likes.

He also started a stand-up course in February 2020, having long wanted to be a comedian. His heroes include Sean Lock, and he has said he watched I’m Alan Partridge on VHS repeatedly while growing up.

Skipper reached the final of the So You Think You're Funny? competition in Edinburgh in 2022 and the Komedia New Act competition the following year In 2024, Skint won Best Debut Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival, befoe he took it to the Edinburgh Fringe, where it ran at the Pleasance Courtyard. The show covers his move from a trade into comedy and life as a working-class father. It also earned a nomination for NextUp’s Biggest Award in Comedy.

On television, he appeared in the ITV2 series The Stand Up Sketch Show and has performed on BBC One’s Live at the Apollo and Comedy Central Live. He has supported Michael McIntyre, Russell Kane, Suzi Ruffell, Jack Dee and Josh Widdicombe on tour – all stable-mates at the Off The Kerb agency – and took Skint on a UK tour of his own.

Alongside live work, Skipper hosts the podcast Get To The Good Stuff and continues to make online videos. His stand-up draws on growing up in South London, family life and money, and he often teases Fringe audiences about the gap between his background and theirs.

He has said he always wanted to be a stand-up in the traditional sense, rather than a content creator, once saying: 'I am always so overwhelmed and thankful with the follows, likes and comments I get with the online comedy but the feeling of making a room full of people laugh is next level. I love feeling the electric atmosphere in an audience when I’m watching a comedian smash a gig.'

Published: 10 Nov 2026