Sharky is reportedly swapping YouTube for the jungle, with the Beta Squad star named among the 12 celebrities heading into I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! this month. The line-up is REPORTED, not confirmed: The Sun reported the full list, and ITV has not officially confirmed a single campmate, so this profile treats his place as strongly reported rather than certain.
Hello Rayo reported on 6 November that, according to The Sun, Sharky — listed as a YouTube content creator — is among the famous faces entering the jungle later this month. LADbible, reporting the Sun list on 2 November, said YouTube star Sharmarke Mohamud, a member of the Beta Squad, was believed to be heading Down Under, while Capital Xtra’s 5 November round-up described him as best known as a member of the hugely popular YouTube collective Beta Squad.
From FIFA videos to millions of followers
Sharky, whose real name is Sharmarke Mohamud, was born on 31 December 1995 in Utrecht in the Netherlands to Somali parents, and later moved to London, according to a Bitget profile. He started his YouTube channel as afcSharky in August 2015, building a following through football and FIFA videos before co-founding Beta Squad in 2019 alongside Niko Omilana, Chunkz, AJ Shabeel and King Kenny. The collective’s main channel has more than 7 million subscribers, according to the same profile, and Sharky’s personal channel has amassed more than 2.8 million subscribers as of 2026. Spectrum FM reported he also has around 2.3 million followers on TikTok.
His casting follows a proven formula: last year’s series was won by YouTuber AngryGinge, crowned King of the Jungle, and producers are clearly hoping another creator can bring the same younger audience, according to The Independent’s round-up of the rumoured line-up. Sharky, 30, would arrive in camp with a ready-made fanbase that already watches him take on public challenges and social experiments for a living.
When the show starts
The series is due to return on Monday 16 November at 9pm on ITV1, with Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly hosting series 26 from Murwillumbah, Australia, for around three weeks. If the reports hold, the man who made his name filming football challenges in London will be eating rice and beans and facing Bushtucker Trials in front of millions — with the Beta Squad, and their millions of subscribers, watching every minute.
