{"id":134071,"date":"2023-11-19T18:29:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T18:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=134071"},"modified":"2023-11-19T18:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T18:29:53","slug":"im-a-celebs-kiosk-kev-revealed-as-reality-star-and-farmer-called-mark-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/tv-and-movies\/im-a-celebs-kiosk-kev-revealed-as-reality-star-and-farmer-called-mark-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m A Celeb\u2019s Kiosk Kev revealed as reality star and farmer called Mark | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
I'M A CELEBRITY's fan-favourite shopkeeper Kiosk Kev will be back for the 2023 instalment of the hit reality TV series.<\/p>\n
The Outback Shack proprietor, who replaced I'm A Celebrity's Kiosk Keith, is set to pose a number of mind-boggling questions to the show's celebrity line-up in return for some sweet treats.<\/p>\n
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This series, he even gets a new cabin in a huge show shake-up.<\/p>\n
Yet away from the ITV reality series Kiosk Kev – whose real name is Mark Herlaar – is a lime farmer.<\/p>\n
He has a side-hustle running an online kombucha business, Manifest Kombucha.<\/p>\n
Mark runs his drinks company from his farm in Queensland and juggles it with his I'm A Celeb role, which he began in 2018.<\/p>\n
He was first to tell us: "Coronavirus was actually an opportunity wrapped in the cloak of disaster.<\/p>\n
"After losing around 150 tonnes of fruit due to club and pub shut downs, as they were the largest uses of our limes, it made us stop and think: \u2018What is the most valuable resource on this farm other than ourselves?\u2019 The answer: Water!\u201d<\/p>\n
"We have been making kombucha as a family for more than 20 years and decided kombucha would add far greater value to the water.
So, we constructed a purpose-built kitchen, obtained a food licence and started to produce Manifest Kombuca."<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, The Sun Online can also reveal the hatch-slamming star is an Aussie reality TV veteran with a thing for posting topless selfies.<\/p>\n
The mute ruler of the Outback Shack actually competed on the Aussie version of TV show Survivor.<\/p>\n
Hailing from the town of Toowoomba in Queensland, where I'm A Celeb is filmed, he was recruited by ITV after advertising himself as an actor on casting websites.<\/p>\n
And the dad-of-two will have a very good idea what new campmates Nigel Farage and Josie Gibson and the others stars are going through – because he's done it all himself.<\/p>\n
In 2017, he was one of the contestants on Australian Survivor, a reality show which sees 24 castaways battling to survive after being dropped into the Samoan jungle.<\/p>\n
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He was adored by viewers for his selfless nature, but lasted only 11 days before being voted out by his back-stabbing campmates.<\/p>\n
The Kiosk Kev star later contracted dysentery he picked up from the water well they had dug in the jungle.<\/p>\n
He explained, in true Aussie language: "It manifested two days after I got home and I was just crook as a dog, like I had dysentery and was nauseated and sick.<\/p>\n
"And if that had of played out [in camp] I would have been very disappointed to be going out, basically, in a body bag with the zipper open."<\/p>\n
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Mark has also appeared on Australia's answer to Family Fortunes, a primetime hit called Family Feud.<\/p>\n
However, away from the limelight he quietly runs his own business growing limes and mushrooms – in stark contrast to the sugary treats he serves in the Outback Shack.<\/p>\n
Some Kiosk Keith loyalists treated the arrival of Mark's character Kev with suspicion, posting the likes of: "Don't like this. THIS IS CHANGE AND IT IS NOT COMFORTABLE."<\/p>\n
However, others\u00a0have been delighted with the scary-looking new arrival, commenting on his magnificent beard.<\/p>\n
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