Everyone in the I’m A Celebrity Away Camp was a bit glum and missing home. Robert Kilroy-Silk and Esther Rantzen both said that they had considered leaving the camp for good. Carly Zucker was upset and spoke to Esther. “I’m missing home. The one thing I miss is Joe. I’m the only sad one. Or am I weaker because I’ve got water coming from my eyes?”

Esther hugged her and said: “I think you express it.”

Robert said: “Nobody appears to be depressed. Everybody appears quite normal. But I know we are [depressed].”

Esther said to Robert: “I nearly walked in the middle of the night.” Robert agreed. “And me. I was surprised everybody is so ebullient and I actually thought why am I here? Nobody’s said that. We feel upbeat and positive,” he continued later. Esther agreed and said “I think we all feel the same actually.”

She told camp: “In the middle of the night I just thought I’m not staying.”

She later said: “I feel quite lonely and I realise so much my mood depends on people I care about and they’re not here. But the people here are very nice.”

And Robert confessed: “I’m actually really missing my family. I have not been parted from my wife of 48 years for more than four nights.”

But Robert and Esther both seemed to cheer up and he later added: “We’re very down and miserable but somehow everybody seems to have that stiff upper lip and getting on with it.”

Esther said: “We’ve been through some tough times together. Life is less bad that we thought.”