Tony Hadley, 61, shares the stories behind his favourite snaps 

Tony Hadley, 61, (pictured) shared the stories behind a selection of his favourite photographs

1964: Here I am aged about four in the front room of my parents’ house in Islington. My brother Steve was always considered the naughty one but I used to drive my parents to despair because I had no fear. I’d climb a tree without testing the branches and I was always getting into scrapes. I just didn’t think before I launched into something, which is still how I am today

1976: I used to go along to the auditions for school plays but I never had the courage to actually audition. I wanted to sing though and was really into Elton John, Rod Stewart and Queen, so I eventually forced myself to sing at Brean Sands Holiday Park in Somerset when I was 14. From that point, I loved performing – this is me on stage when I was 16 at Pontins

1984: Spandau Ballet flew straight into the Band Aid recording session from Germany and arrived to see 300 screaming fans outside, so the first thing we did (as did the Duran Duran boys) was rush into the loos with our hairspray and make-up to try to make ourselves look half decent. There weren’t any egos that day – here I am between Simon Le Bon and Sting. It was a cup of tea and a custard cream for a snack and lunch was sausage rolls and chicken drumsticks. I remember sitting in the control room with Bob Geldof, George Michael, Midge Ure and Trevor Horn, and Bob said, ‘Go on, Hadley. Get down there and start it off,’ so I did my lines in two takes and the whole thing got rolling

1985: The band was having a great time when our album Parade came out – here, in Belgium for a concert, the guys look like they’ve been raiding their mum’s nylon blouson drawers and could go up in flames in a nanosecond. A few months later I flew to New Zealand and got to sing on stage with my hero Freddie Mercury. We’d demolished a bottle of vodka at the hotel bar earlier and he said, ‘Darling, sing Jailhouse Rock on stage with us,’ so I said, ‘Do you know the words?’ and he replied, ‘Not really.’ It was wonderful. Spandau got a huge amount of attention from the start but we were all grounded and had very strong families – the egos weren’t flying around too much at that stage

1987: My main memory of the Prince’s Trust concert at Wembley was Ringo Starr asking for my autograph for his kids. Ringo Starr, asking me! That was quite a moment. As for Boy George [pictured], I’ve known him since the Blitz club days in Covent Garden when he was the hat-check girl. He’s always been such a colourful character, quite acerbic sometimes and not afraid to speak his mind. He’s lovely though, as are all the guys from Culture Club

1998: I support Arsenal because my dad’s mum lived in the flats overlooking the old Highbury stadium – you could see the corner flag from my nan’s balcony. This is me playing (not very well) at an Arsenal fun day. I also played in the former players and celebrity charity match in 2008 – the actor Ralf Little was in the team too. I was always a Tony Adams type of player… stay at the back, kick them hard and apologise when they were on the floor. Hence I never chose football as a career

2004: Although I don’t often invite my family to events, my mum and my sister Lee came to this one, an awards ceremony for the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters. Mum is 89 now and the last surviving parent of all the Spandau boys. All our parents were normal people with normal jobs – Dad was an electrical engineer for the Daily Mail and Mum worked in healthcare – so to take them to events where they can meet people like the future king of England is incredible

2015: Duncan Bannatyne and I connected instantly on I’m A Celebrity [pictured]. He’s the reason why I managed to stay looking half presentable because he let me borrow his massive pot of hair gel. A lot of people think that at nine o’clock you get pizza and Champagne but no, there could be big snakes going past you, rats, mice and all sorts of stuff. But the one thing you must always do is keep your sense of hygiene and stay presentable, so I would shave every day and borrow Duncan’s wonderful hair gel