Joey Essex reveals he STILL can’t tell the time and got beaten by seven-year-old schoolkids in new show

JOEY Essex has revealed that he STILL can’t tell the time and got beaten by seven-year-old schoolkids in new gameshow The Box. The programme is set to hit our screens on ITV next month. Joey Essex has revealed that he STILL can’t tell the time Credit: Getty The reality favourite is set to star in the upcoming TV show The Box Credit: PA “Gary Lineker hosts the game show that plunges celebrity contestants into the unknown as they visit mystery locations while enclosed in a box and face a series of tricky challenges,” ITVX‘s synopsis reads. This is just another reality TV to add to Joey’s collection, after appearing on TOWIE, Love Island, Celebs Go Dating and Dancing on Ice over the years. Sign up for the TV newsletter Thank you! During his stint on I’m A Celebrity in 2013, Joey – who has proudly embraced his lack of general knowledge and what has made the public fall in love with him – shocked fans when he confessed to his campmates that he couldn’t read a traditional analogue clock. And now, 13 years on, he still can’t. Joey revealed that he couldn’t tell the time in the I’m A Celebrity jungle Credit: ITV Joey pictured with his celebrity co-stars on The Box Credit: PA Speaking with the Daily Mail about his upcoming stint on the Box, he said: “My own dad said to me a little while ago, ‘You do know how to tell the time, don’t you?’ “I said, ‘Dad, I genuinely don’t.’ “I swear on my life, I can’t.” After his stint on in the jungle, he bagged his own show Educating Joey Essex, which followed the star travel the world to improve his general knowledge. Most read in TV In The Box, Joey ends up going head to head with some school children to answer questions – and it doesn’t end well. Joey, who became a household name after appearing on Towie between 2011 and 2013, recalled to the publication: “That was weird. It didn’t go down well for me. “Gary was saying, ‘OK, it’s not an act.’ The kids were all cleverer than me, but I bring warmth. “When they got asked afterwards who they liked, they shouted out, ‘Joey!’ All these seven- and eight-year-olds. Bless ’em. “They were so smart.” Joey will be joined on our screens with YouTuber Danny Aarons, comedian Ellie Taylor, former footballer Graeme Souness, The Chase‘s Jenny Ryan, former speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow and JLS star JB Gill. This Morning‘s Ranvir Singh, Dragons’ Den star Sara Davies and Love Island’s Shakira Khan complete the celebrity line-up. Comment now