I’m A Celebrity finalist Jordan North could have been killed in Northern Ireland’s worst terror atrocity. The Radio One DJ – whose dad was stationed in Omagh during the 1990s – was meant to go into the town the day it was hit by a devastating bomb blast that killed 29 people including a woman pregnant with twins.
Speaking about the Real IRA blast on August 15, 1998, when he was aged eight, Jordan said: “My dad was in the Army for 24 years.
In 1997 his battalion, the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment, was posted to Omagh so we moved out there. “In August 1998, when the Omagh bomb happened, we were there at the time and we were meant to be going into town that day, into Omagh. “But I’m one of four boys and my mum said we were all playing up.
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