Is Network Ten’s latest I’m A Celebrity ‘tennis star’ teaser about Bernard Tomic?

NETWORK Ten has dropped the biggest hint yet Bernard Tomic will soon head to the wilds of Africa after the Queenslander was today knocked out of qualifying at Melbourne Park.

Is Bernie Tomic headed to the jungle? Picture: Getty Images

NETWORK Ten has dropped the biggest hint yet Bernard Tomic will soon head to the wilds of Africa after the Queenslander was today knocked out of qualifying at Melbourne Park.

A promotional teaser for its reality show I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! refers to a “tennis star” being “at break point before they know it.”

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Is Bernie Tomic headed to the jungle? Picture: Getty Images

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Australian tennis has been awash with rumours the former No 17 had signed up for the show, which will be televised from January 28 — the night of the Australan Open men’s final.

Tomic this week denied Herald Sun reports he would be involved with the reality show set in Africa.

The Herald Sun understands Tomic had bragged to colleagues he had been offered more than $1 million to appear in the show.

Network Ten described the rumoured payments as “grossly over-inflated and simply false.”

“Network Ten does not confirm or deny any speculation about the identities of celebrities for the upcoming series of I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!,” a Network Ten spokesperson said.

Is this I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here promo about Bernard Tomic? Picture: Supplied

“However, recent press speculation regarding rumoured celebrity payments are grossly over-inflated and simply false.”

Tomic’s Australian Open campaign is over before the tournament proper even begins after a 6-1 6-7 6-4 final-round qualifying loss to Italian Lorenzo Sonego.

The 25-year-old yesterday turned down requests to for an official post-match interview after scraping past American Tommy Paul.

He also declined to speak after his first-round win over Vincent Millot.

The embattled Queenslander is today due to face Italy’s world No 218 Lorenzo Sonego for a place in the Open main draw where first-round losers will pocket $50,000.

Money is reputedly Tomic’s sole tennis motivation after a miserable 2017, when he failed to win a single grand slam match after reaching the third round in Melbourne.

The Gold Coaster has since fallen out with Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt and several other Australian players.

He was overlooked for a wildcard invitation to play the Open after turning down an offer to take part in a training camp.

The Wimbledon quarter-finalist is believed to have instead trained privately in Turkey and the Gold Coast.

Boxers Danny Green and Anthony Mundine are also rumoured to have agreed to appear in I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!