I don't understand why people keep calling him desperate. When he was offered I'm A Celebrity, he would have been an idiot to turn it down. He obviously wouldn't have been paid as big a fee as the others who went on it, but he would have got in excess of £25,000 (the big names can get up to £100,000 soemtimes). For someone like Jake, £25,000 (he would have got more than that) for 4 weeks work would have helped changed his life. Then there's all the opportunities he would get afterwards from being on the show. If he was offered Big Brother and had accepted, he probably would have got paid a slightly higher fee as they usually pay the contestants a bit more. I don't think he's despertate at all...he's doing the smart thing and getting the money while he can. He would never have made it big from X Factor and been a big star...that was obvious, and from watching his interview on Xtra Factor afterwards, it seemed like he had realsied that too.