Nick Clegg: I won't do or I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! or Strictly Come Dancing when I step down as MP
Nick Clegg has vowed to avoid appearances on reality shows like Strictly Come Dancing or I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! when he hangs up his gloves as an MP.
And the Deputy PM has also said he will not take a peerage to go into an unreformed House of Lords after he leaves the Commons.
But the Liberal Democrat leader insisted that he was not making plans for a new career after next May's general election, brushing off suggestions that he will have more time on his hands come June 2015.
The Deputy Prime Minister was answering questions from children at Sheffield Children's Hospital for a pre-recorded Christmas Day special edition of his Call Clegg phone-in on LBC radio.
I think there are two things I can say pretty clearly," said Mr Clegg. "I'm not going to go to an unreformed House of Lords and I'm not going to the jungle and join Edwina Currie."
Asked if he might instead take to the Strictly dancefloor, as his Lib Dem Cabinet colleague Vince Cable did in 2010, he responded: "No, no, no, no."
The only post-politics ambition Mr Clegg would admit to was spending more time playing music.
"I might invest in one of those digital drum sets when I leave politics - which won't be next June, by the way," he said.
Mr Clegg revealed that since being given a pair of bright yellow boxing gloves by wife Miriam for Christmas last year, he has been attending weekly boxing classes as a way of keeping fit, adding: "What I lack in skill I make up for in exertion and enthusiasm."
But his present wish-list this year was topped by a less energetic request for novels to read in the evenings.
Mr Clegg denied he was "mates" with coalition partner David Cameron, saying: "We don't work together as mates, we work together as two people who work together.
"I don't think David Cameron and I have gone into government or coalition with each other to seek out friends. We're there to do a job."
Asked by one 10-year-old girl what it was like "being so important", Mr Clegg replied: "I don't go around thinking `Ooh, what I'm doing is terribly important'. You just kind of get on with it from one day to the next.
"I might invest in one of those digital drum sets when I leave politics - which won't be next June, by the way," he said.
Mr Clegg revealed that since being given a pair of bright yellow boxing gloves by wife Miriam for Christmas last year, he has been attending weekly boxing classes as a way of keeping fit, adding: "What I lack in skill I make up for in exertion and enthusiasm."
But his present wish-list this year was topped by a less energetic request for novels to read in the evenings.
Mr Clegg denied he was "mates" with coalition partner David Cameron, saying: "We don't work together as mates, we work together as two people who work together."I don't think David Cameron and I have gone into government or coalition with each other to seek out friends. We're there to do a job."
Asked by one 10-year-old girl what it was like "being so important", Mr Clegg replied: "I don't go around thinking `Ooh, what I'm doing is terribly important'. You just kind of get on with it from one day to the next.