Saints' hero Matthew Le Tissier has revealed he was asked to join the TV programme, I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.

However, Matt, who has just signed for Eastleigh FC, told an audience at Winchester's Guildhall, told the producers there was absolutely no chance of him taking part.

Matt was joined at the charity fund-raising event by Esther Rantzen and BBC disability correspondent Peter White. Hosting the event was Meridian TV presenter Debbie Thrower. She interviewed each of the celebrities and, after a break, the audience was invited to pose questions.

Peter, who lives in Winchester, spoke about his concerns over fewer people learning Braille. He said many blind students came to him for advice on entering journalism and many of those could not read Braille. "If you cannot read, that's illiterate - whether you are sighted or not."

He spoke about the onset of technology, particularly computers having text-to-speech facilities but said this still meant you had to be sitting at a screen. "I am very worried about there not being enough people to teach Braille. There are also not enough people who think it is a problem!"

Matt spoke of his pride at being asked by the FA to be guest of honour at the England match at St Mary's. The night before he'd joked with Southampton star Wayne Bridge that instead of shaking his hand at the start of the match he would knee him in the "nether regions"! Matt said: "When I came to shake his hand, Wayne put out one hand to greet me and the other one down below!".

The former England player spoke about his signing that week for Eastleigh. He warned he might only play one or two games a season - his true love now being golf.

Esther Rantzen spoke movingly about her days with husband Desmond Wilcox who died in September, 2000 and how he had inspired and guided her.

The Bramshaw resident who had started her career rattling tea cups on radio's Mrs Dale's Diary achieved fame with her campaigning journalism. At one point she was offered £1m to leave That's Life and join ITV. She told the audience why she turned it down. "I was in love with that programme - perhaps I was the only person in the universe in love with it!" she said. In fact, the programme achieved 20 million viewers each week.

But she admitted she had had regrets at turning down the money and now thinks she should have asked them to deliver the money to her house so she could just look at it before sending it back!

The evening raised money for the Mayor of Winchester's charities which includes the Gwen Bush Foundation of which Debbie Thrower is patron. The Foundation funds research into fighting pain.