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<\/a><\/p>\nEssendon champion and former skipper Dyson Heppell<\/a> is the latest AFL<\/a> player to head into the jungle for reality TV show I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.<\/p>\n Heppell retired from the AFL<\/a> after 14 seasons with the Bombers, where he played 253 games and led the club from 2017 to 2022.<\/p>\n He was an All-Australian and Crichton Medallist in 2014, as well as the Rising Star winner in 2011.<\/p>\n Heppell continued his playing career at VFL club Port Melbourne in 2025, and has recently joined Collingwood in a development coaching role.<\/p>\n Taking to social media, the 33-year-old announced his next venture, where he’ll\u00a0compete for his chosen charity, Very Special Kids.<\/p>\n Heppell follows a long line of AFL<\/a> players who have joined the reality TV show since its inception in 2015.<\/p>\n Barry Hall (Series 1), Brendon Fevola (Series 2), Dane Swan<\/a> (Series 3), Josh Gibson<\/a> (Series 4), Shane Crawford and Dermott Bereton (Series 5), Dale Thomas<\/a> and Billy Brownless (Series 6), Travis Varcoe<\/a> and Robert DiPierdominico (Series 7), Nathan Buckley<\/a> and Derek Kickett (Series 8), Adam Cooney<\/a> (Series 9), Peter Daicos (Series 10) and Zach Tuohy<\/a> (Series 11) have all featured in the show.<\/p>\n
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