Fatima Whitbread thought she knew what she was stepping into when she signed up for I’m A Celeb South Africa, however there have been some surprises.
The Olympic champion, 62, is among the many main stars returning for the particular I’m A Celeb… Get Me Out Of Right here! collection set in South Africa.
And whereas she informed Metro.co.uk and different press it was an ‘quick sure’ to participate, she didn’t come out of it unscathed.
The star spoke to reporters together with fellow campmate Janice Dickinson about jetting off to the South African bush and the way issues went, with out giving an excessive amount of away earlier than the collection airs on the finish of April.
Janice revealed she was terrified birds would pluck her eyes out whereas she slept, and saved her sleeping bag zipped proper up over her head – and Fatima actually did lose a physique half, though fortunately quickly.
Fatima ended up being the camp cook dinner, with Janice praising the ‘nice eating regimen’ all of them ended up on with Fatima’s expertise.
‘Fatima was our chief chef and bottle washer. She was wonderful each day, I don’t know the way she did it, standing over a fireplace and tending to the fireplace. I saved telling Fatima, “You higher be careful to your eyebrows and your eyelashes!”‘
To which Fatima jumped in – ‘Yeah, I misplaced all of them.’
It seems Fatima might have prevented telling Janice to dodge the ‘I informed you so,’ as her campmate’s jaw dropped as she requested: ‘Actually?!’
‘Sure! There was intense warmth there. It was so terrible, and within the camp at night time time it will possibly get actually chilly,’ she defined.
‘So we’re all standing over the fireplace and for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and standing over a furnace like that – it dries your pores and skin up, it shears your eyebrows!’
The sports activities star dropping her eyebrows wasn’t for nothing nevertheless, as Janice heaped reward on Fatima for taking such excellent care of everybody within the bush.
‘Fatima was cooking for us all day lengthy, I couldn’t have made it with out Fatima … she was unbelievable, she’s a champion, a champion of a girl and a champion campmate,’ she declared.
Janice and Fatima are joined by the likes of Shaun Ryder, Carol Vorderman, and Helen Flanagan within the ITV present, hoping to have a different shot at being topped the winner.
Paul Burrell, Phil Tufnell, Amir Khan and Jordan Banjo make up the principle checklist, although ITV has confirmed additional names will make a shock look all through the collection.
I’m A Celeb…South Africa begins Monday at 9pm and airs all week on ITV1 and ITVX
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