East Lancashire radio presenter Jordan North has said he is “going straight to hell” after accidentally headbutting a nun on the London Underground.

On his ‘Help I Sexted My Boss’ podcast, Jordan, who is from Burnley, opened up to co-host William Hanson about the incident.

Leading etiquette expert William said he had received the “best text” from Jordan earlier in the week explaining what happened.

He told listeners: “This was possibly the best text I have ever received from Jordan and my God there have been a lot.

“Suddenly our phone flashes up with ‘I have just headbutted a nun’.”

Jordan said: “Seriously I nutted a nun and I feel awful. It could only happen to me.”

The I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here runner-up said he had headphones in when a “little old nun” boarded the tube in London with her shopping trolley.

Jordan said: “I am in one of the priority seats and I get up to offer her my seat.

“I can’t hear what she’s saying as I have my headphones in.

“As I get up and she comes forward the tube sets off. It flings me forward and I proper nutted her on the head. I planted her on the forehead.

“When I say I nutted a nun - I proper headbutted a nun.”

Jordan said the headbutt “knocked the nun backwards’ eliciting laughter from a fellow passenger.

He said:  “I think I said ‘sorry’ a hundred times. She said ‘it’s fine my child’.

“As I got off I took my headphones out and said sorry again. I told her ‘I will say five Hail Marys'. She didn’t laugh and I’m not even Catholic.

“I think people think I come on and make stuff up to be funny on the radio – but I did headbutt a nun.

“I’m going straight to hell.”

Jordan has recently been announced as the host of a new BBC Three TV show that features Jason Derulo.

Jordan said he is “excited” to be part of Project Icon which is six-part music competition from MultiStory Media and ITV America.

The series invites eight aspiring recording artists to compete against each other to see whether they have got what it takes to transform from a bedroom singer into an all-round music star in just a few weeks.

He recently finished filming a show with the working title ‘Warrior Island’.

The new series will follow eight young people who feel stuck in a rut as they are cut off from the modern world in a month-long programme of transformation aimed at improving their health and wellbeing through extreme physical challenges.