Dizzee Rascal: "I've Been Asked To Be The Voice Of The Coco Pops Monkey"

10 October 2012, 10:46 | Updated: 10 October 2012, 10:56

The 'Bonkers' star reveals he's been offered the chance to lend his vocals to the popular cereal character.

Dizzee Rascal has confessed that he's been asked to be the voice of the monkey from the Coco Pops advert.

The 'Dance Wit Me' rapper took to his Twitter account to reveal the news to his fans and joked that he had always wanted to live out his dream of becoming the Milky Bar kid.

"REAL TALK! I've just been asked to do the voice over for the coco pops monkey! I always wanted to be the Milky Bar Kid... Oh well!," he tweeted.

Alongside the message, he also uploaded a side-by-side picture of himself and the Coco Pops monkey sipping milk from their cereal bowls.

You can view the picture of Dizzee Rascal alongside the Coco Pops monkey which he posted on his social networking site below: (Picture: Twitter)

This week, it has also been announced that Nicki Minaj, Bruno Mars and Will.i.am have offered their voices for characters in the upcoming series of The Cleveland Show and Justin Bieber will also be appearing in a future episode of The Simpsons.

Meanwhile, Dizzee is currently working on his new studio album and has already teased collaborations with the likes of Benji Madden from Good Charlotte.