David Gest the child

23 October 2007 - David Gest feels he is going through a second childhood.

The 54-year-old record producer claims he has become a cool teenager again, hanging out with young stars in London's hippest part of town.

David told Britain's The Independent newspaper: "My life is so different now. My friends are all 22 or 24. I hang out in Camden Town at this bar Amy Winehouse hangs out in.

"I'm like a teenager. I'm living though a second childhood, and loving very effing minute of it.

"I don't want to live in the past. I could have given it all up for a happy marriage. But now - I'd really rather go for a drink, go dancing in Camden, listen to the Kaiser Chiefs."

The ex-husband of Liza Minnelli claims his appearance on reality show 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here' made him love life again.

He said: "I realised if I could live in the jungle with so little food and still have a happy life, then everything I thought was important just wasn't. I just felt I don't care. I could go back to a very sparse home with just a few good books. I didn't need any of it anymore.

"I've bought a house in Cambridge. It's not huge, it's got a nice living-room and a couple of bedrooms.

"It's just so English. I love the people. There's something about the history. I just feel so at home.

"I've made a lot of friends I make friends wherever I go."

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