David Gest
I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here contestant and Grease Is The Word judge, David Gest was born on 11 May 1953 in the USA.
In April 2007, the fly-on-the-wall series This is David Gest started on ITV1.
On 16 March 2002, David Gest married Liza Minnelli in New York City.
The maid-of-honour was Elizabeth Taylor and the best man was Michael Jackson.
David Gest and Liza Minnelli split up in July 2003 and filed for divorce shortly afterwards.
They had first met over fifteen years previously at the home of Frank Sinatra, but only cemented their relationship when David Gest produced Michael Jackson's comeback concert, in which Minnelli appeared.
David Gest has always been in the entertainment industry. At 17, he was a record company publicist and soon went on to establish his own public relations and management company. He produced several large scale events and concerts.
MSNBC has an extensive article and video interview about David Gest, his marriage and his break-up.
Smoking Gun has a copy of the ten page lawsuit that Gest filed against Minnelli, claiming she attacked him.
In 2004, David Gest moved to Memphis, from where he produced David Gest's All-Star Holiday Extravaganza.
Nodody appeared surprised when David Gest was voted by the public to do the first Bush Tucker Trial in I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. However, David Gest grew in popularity through the show and in the end, he came fourth in the 2006 series of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.
He remained friends with Jason Donovan and Matt Willis.
In April 2007, David Gest, as well as appearing on This is David Gest, became a judge on a Simon Cowell project, Grease Is The Word.
In March 2007, The Sun reported that David Gest had been seeing Malandra Burrows.
In November 2007, the BBC reported that David Gest will tour the UK with a musical stage show entitled David Gest Is Nuts - My Life as a Musical.
December 2007 proved a difficult month for David Gest. In it, he sold his collection of music memorabilia at an auction and on 19 December he was admitted to hospital with chest pains and respiratory problems.