Every year contestants from I’m A Celebrity find themselves in the spotlight for memorable moments on screen – but previous campmate Gillian McKeith has never been able to live down her jungle stint
This year’s I’m A Celeb has been full of laughs, arguments and jaw dropping moments from inside the camp. With tensions over cooking duties, secret snack eating emotional letters from home it’s been a whirlwind season with many viral and memorable moments on screen.
But one memorable moment that any I’m A Celebrity fan will remember is from a few years ago when fellow campmate Gillian McKeith famously fainted during a live Bushtucker trial.
McKeith, who is known for her TV show You Are What You Eat appeared in the jungle in 2010 and quickly became a fan favourite when it came to being nominated for bushtucker trials, with the public voting her for nearly every single task.
However she was most remembered for her nomination for the “Un-fair Ground” challenge when she visibly had enough of being nominated for the gruesome trials.
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She reluctantly walked over to Ant and Dec where they detailed the trial’s rules, and from there, became one of the most notable I’m A Celeb moments in history.
The TV personality collapsed on camera, and the show had to cut to a swift ad break while medic Bob issued first aid to her. When the show came back on, it was announced that she had been withdrawn on medical grounds and former Olympic gold medallist Linford Christie stepped in as her replacement.
McKeith has since addressed the moment, and debunked rumours that she did not pretended to faint to get out of doing the trial. Sending social media and fans into a frenzy, they believed it was a calculated move.
According to The Independent, she explained: “I have a history of fainting since childhood. The day before we did the live trial, I hadn’t had much to eat and I wasn’t feeling very well – which is the precursor to passing out.”
Going on to claim that she’d even fainted during a wedding, she continued: “They were about to say, ‘Do you take this man to be your husband?’ and I passed out. Sometimes you can stop yourself if you get close to the ground but the problem with the jungle is there were all these leeches and so there was no way I was going to throw myself on the ground.”
McKeith then said she hasn’t ever been able to live the moment down. She added: “I have never been able to forget about my fainting in the jungle!
“I have been reminded about I’m a Celebrity every single day since I came out by taxi drivers and people in the street! They all talk about it as if it were yesterday. They say I was entertaining. It might have been for them, but it certainly wasn’t for me!”
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