Tomic joins reality show I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here

Around the same time Roger Federer was working on securing Grand Slam No. 20, Bernard Tomic was making his reality TV debut.

The world No. 178-ranked Australian is part of the cast for the latest season of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here (Australia). The premise of the show is a group of celebrities (often far from the A-list caliber) get sent to the wilderness to take on various challenges while camping out. If they utter the headline of the show, they lose but get to return to their safe (and clean) homes.

“This is reality nothing can hide,” Tomic said before heading to the African jungle “People know me as this tennis player that is crazy and has done this or that, or has problems. Hopefully I get the chance to change their image about me on this show and that is one of the reasons I’m doing it."

Tomic's entrance gets met with some jokes from the contestants. Kerry Armstrong asks him for some money (referring to his latest headline-stirring incident) and then there was this reaction from Simone Holtznagel:

Tomic didn't have much time to make friends. The 25-year-old had to tackle his fear of sky diving right away and then stick his hands in a crate that housed a snake (he got bitten multiple times, but took it quite well).

On to the next challenge, Tomic and his cast mates got strapped to a spinning wheel and doused with disgusting liquids (rotten tomatoes, animal innards, cow dung, etc).

While he survived the first day, it looks like the three-time ATP titlist becomes the first to quit the showafter a complicated canyon ledge challenge leaves him feeling sick.

Losing in the final round of qualifying, Tomic failed to appear in the Australian Open main draw this month for the first time since 2008.