Editing David Gest (section)

===Later years===
Gest finished in fourth place on the 2006 series of ''I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'', a day before the show finished. Two days later, Gest appeared on the [[Royal Variety Show]] in London in front of [[Prince Charles]], for which he received a standing ovation. Another two days later, a controversy arose on the cover of two major UK papers stating that more than 30,000 text votes were not counted in Gest's favour when the network ITV had a voting glitch. This would have changed the outcome of the show but Gest declined a recount.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6445017.stm|title=Channel 4 admits new phone error|work=BBC|date=March 13, 2007|access-date=12 April 2016}}</ref>

In January 2007, Gest appeared as a judge on ITV1's ''[[Soapstar Superstar]]'', for one night replacing [[Michael Ball (singer)|Michael Ball]] who was coaching the singers. Later that month it was announced that Gest had signed a one-year deal with [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] to appear in his own reality series entitled ''This Is David Gest'', which began on April 22, 2007. He also took cameras for a rare glimpse of the Jackson family house in [[Encino, California]], where he met [[Tito Jackson]] and his children as well as matriarch Katherine Jackson. He was one of the four judges on ITV1's entertainment series ''[[Grease Is the Word]]'' and also starred on ''Greased Lightnin{{'}}''. In 2007, Gest also appeared in an episode of Gordon Ramsay's ''[[The F Word (British TV series)|The F Word]]''.

Gest paid ITV to be released from his contract early and ITV replied that they had no idea what to do with him. Gest was quick to say that he wanted to be released: "My lawyers negotiated an early release so I could host ''[[The Friday Night Project]]'' on [[Channel 4]]", Gest told ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20070718/ten-gest-who-s-back-in-town-ea4616c.html|title=Latest World News & UK News Headlines|publisher=Uk.news.yahoo.com|date=April 20, 2011|access-date=July 1, 2015}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Gest was the guest on ''Celebrity Fantasy Homes'' with [[Gaby Roslin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/property/97276/Fantasy-lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous|title=Fantasy lifestyles of the rich and famous, David has fond memories of Glasgow, on a dark and stormy night he recalls the tail of him and Alastair. Alastair was a character, a raconteur of the west end. What we had is what made everyone back in LA jealous, he was a star for sure. |date=26 April 2009}}</ref>