ITV Bosses are reportedly planning to celebrate the show’s tenth anniversary by making an Ultimate Jungle camp and including some of the shows most memorable camp mates.
The channel is keen to run with the all-star concept but it has been reported that they are having a difficult time convincing the personalities, as many have deep issues with other celebrities being considered for the show.
Gillian McKeith is determined to keep her public profile high and what better way to do that than to land a place on another reality TV show.
The ‘You Are What You Eat’ presenter had found herself in a bit of a career wilderness until she joined the lineup for I’m A Celebrity…..Get Me Out Of Here! last year. She may have become hated and reviled but at least she’s being noticed and now she wants to try her hand at another ITV show.
McKeith told The Daily Star:
While appearing on ITV’s Loose Women, Gillian McKeith claimed fellow I’m A Celeb contestant Shaun Ryder secretly fancied her and found her “sexy.”
However, while he was in the jungle, Shaun only admitted to having had one fantasy about Gillian, and that of drowning her in the pool.
Nonetheless, Gillian said, “He [Shaun] came up to me at the end and told me that he really liked me and that I was really sexy.
“He has a very nice side. But there is this other side and I think that there’s something about me that triggers something in him that isn’t good.”
Gillian later criticised Alison Hammond for her claims that Gillian’s fainting episodes were faked. Read more & comment »
Dom Joly thinks Gillian McKeith “behaved very selfishly” on ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get me out of Here!’.
The comedian – who arrived in camp four days after the rest of the contestants – is not surprised the public continued to vote for the TV nutritionist to take part in trials because of her attention-seeking antics on the show.
He said: “Everybody was quite open and friendly, and I was quickly filled in about the ‘Gillian situation’.
“It turned out that Dr. Gillian McKeith – a woman famous for analysing people’s stools on television and not being a doctor- was afraid of everything.
Gillian McKeith has admitted that she DID fake her faints in the jungle.
The ‘You Are What You Eat’ star – who became notorious for her reluctance to take part in Bushtucker Trials on this year’s ‘I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!’ – told fellow contestant Alison Hammond she “had to” faint to escape taking part in the gruesome tasks she was subjected to on the ITV1 show.
Alison said: “I’m not an uncaring person, but it was hard not to giggle when Gillian fainted. I was so pleased because it meant we were going to eat.
Gillian McKeith claims she was “TV gold” during her time in ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’.
The TV nutritionist left the ITV1 show on Monday night, with her eviction attracting 10.6 million viewers and since her departure ratings have gone down, something Gillian believes is down to her not being in the jungle.
She said: “I thought ratings would go down now that I’ve gone. Somebody has said that I was TV gold and I think I was.”
I’m A Celebrity reject Gillian McKeith thinks that viewers voted for her to do numerous Bushtucker Trials, because she was “entertaining”.
The ‘You Are What You Eat’ star was voted off the ITV show on Monday night and admitted that she knew her constant screaming and fainting in the face of hair raising trials, would make the experience more “interesting”, as the other contestants are “dull”.
She said: “Viewers voted for me because I am interesting. They love seeing someone scream or faint at trials. They don’t just want to see someone go through the motions. They want entertainment.
Jenny Éclair is convinced that former I’m A Celebrity camp mate Gillian McKeith is a witch, as the You Are What You Eat presenter correctly predicted that she would leave the jungle.
The presenter had packed her bag and got herself all prepared to go and even told Aggro that she had left the insect repellent on her bed for him.
Jenny later said, “She packed her bags, she had her coat ready, she’s a witch…she knew when she was going.”
I’m A Celebrity reject Lembit Opik has defended Gillian McKeith, saying that she didn’t fake her fainting fits.
The former Liberal Democrat MP said that he thinks the ‘You Are What You Eat’ star was incorrectly accused of pretending to have phobias and revealed that he chatted about the issue with Gillian after she was eliminated from the ITV show yesterday.
Speaking on Daybreak, Opik said: “I actually cross questioned her this afternoon as I have been quite a defender of hers and I’ll tell you now live on British television that I think Gillian McKeith is innocent and she wasn’t faking it.”
Britt Ekland has blasted her former I’m A celebrity campmate Gillian McKeith, saying that she wants nothing to do with the star.
The former Bond girl endured three weeks in the jungle with the dramatic star and now has refused to even take her email address, saying:
“I think she has been so incredibly appalling that I won’t take her email address. I won’t have anything to do with her.”
