A trio of celebs quite literally took the plunge in today’s Bushtucker Trial to win food and treats for the camp…and for one camper it would be a particularly hair raising experience.

Dean Gaffney, Lauren Booth and Phina Oruche discovered that to win a possible 12 stars they would have to bungee from a height of 100ft throwing paint bombs at targets on the ground below them.

A bold Phina was first to leap off Jungle Falls. As the countdown from five began Phina wasted no time in jumping off the platform into thin air. She performed a perfect swallow dive scoring a bullseye into the bargain and the first pair of meal tickets.

A decidedly less-than-bold Dean was next up: “I’ve got butterflies in my stomach, I’m really scared but I have got to do it.”

Toes teetering on the edge 100ft up a panicky Dean squealed: “I feel dizzy. Look how high up we are. My hands are shaking.”

He stepped into space and no-one was more surprised than he was when he scored a direct hit and landed another two meals for camp.

As Lauren was strapped into her safety harness she assured the safety team: “We are hard core, we bungee from helicopters.”

She made it a hat-trick of hits when she also managed to splatter the star on the ground despite letting go of the paint bomb very early on.

“We’re going for all 12,” she cried. “It’s going to be the biggest night in camp.”

But her optimism was short lived. Returning to the platform straight away for her second attempt she missed the target by inches. Dean went again as Phina muttered: “He is going to do this or I will kick his head in.”

Her encouragement fell on deaf ears though and despite Dean taking a leaf out of the book of former I’m A Celeb trial expert John Fashanu as he urged himself to ‘Focus’, the ex-EastEnder also fell short with his second bomb.

Phina, who was next up, seemed supremely confident. “I don’t mind bringing home the bacon,” she declared striding towards the platform. But she couldn’t emulate the success of her first attempt, dropping the paint balloon as she leapt from the crane. The camp would get six meals for dinner.

For a shaky Lauren the experience had been too much: “You quite literally nearly frightened me to death. I actually passed out, I blacked out for a second. I shocked myself and have taken a little bit of time getting the equilibrium going.”

Back in camp Lauren retold the tale: “What a morning. Seriously, [Medic] Bob had to take me to one side and give me medical attention. That was the worst [trial]. It was like falling out of a building. I went over the edge and did not remember what happened until I was bouncing. There were spots exploding before my eyes.”

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Faith and Phina focused on David’s appearance during a chat in the treehouse.

“He is a strange looking man isn’t he?” Phina questioned Faith. “The texture of his face is bizarre. Do you think he has had peels?”

“I don’t know. It’s hard to say,” Faith mused. “I have never seen anybody like that before. I think to me it looks like it [treatment] has gone wrong.”

“And then the hair…” Phina continued.

“It has been sewn in,” Faith suggested.

“But there’s none in the middle,” Phina laughed.

“Maybe he wants it to look natural,” Faith offered. “It’s so unnatural isn’t it?!”

“LA is filled to the gills [with people] like him,” Phina said.

“They have to be beautiful in LA,” Faith agreed.

“The thing is if you don’t admit to where you are the jet black hair doesn’t help him,” Phina thoughtfully added.

When asked by Faith why he went for the ‘jet black’ look Phina decided: “Because it’s a fantasy world. Look what Michael Jackson looks like.”

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David Gest confronted Phina Oruche today about the bed situation, asking her to give Jan her bed in the tree house back.

Lauren said: “We decided earlier that Jan and Faith should have the tree house as they are older women . Phina got tired the other day and asked if she could go up there for one night, now she wants two nights.”

Lauren said to Faith and Jan: “It’s not fair – we need to talk to her. She is young and well.”

“But I don’t want to say anything,” Jan told the girls, worried about a confrontation with Phina.

Faith had a chat with David, today’s leader, telling him “Phina is taking over,” and he promptly called Phina over to discuss Bedgate.

“Can I talk to you for a minute? Jan needs to sleep on that bed.” David said.

But Phina cut in : “I need to sleep in that bed because I just pulled my neck doing the bungee jump…to get tonight’s dinner. So not tonight but maybe tomorrow. I am not being a bitch, I swear. I am just being honest.”

Later Phina asked Jan if she had a problem but Jan chose not to speak up.

“You would tell me wouldn’t you?” Phina said.

“Of course, I am quite an outspoken person.” Jan retorted.

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Successfully retrieving the Chest, the celebrities were given a parcel from their loved ones as well as a letter from someone special and all were thrilled with their treats which included strawberries, Tabasco sauce, chocolate cake, biscuits…and a Pot Noodle!

The celebrities were told that each of their letters must be read out by another of the celebrities and the tears were soon flowing.

Jason got particularly emotional, bursting into tears as he was shown a photograph of his partner Angela and children, waiting for him at the Versace hotel. Matt also had a tear in his eye as he was read a heartfelt emotional letter from his girlfriend Emma.

Phina read Myleene’s letters from her parents - Magdalena and Oscar - and fiancée Graham. She burst into floods of tears as soon as Phina began reading.

The letter from her parents read: “We have been watching you all while still in the UK and have enjoyed it tremendously. The night sky is beautiful here especially the Orion display. Perhaps when you gaze up into the sky tonight you might think of the words of Miss Saigon and think of breathing in the same air as us tonight as you are so close.�

Fiancee Graham sent a letter to his “Jungle Bunny� telling her to “have fun, stay strong and I miss you big time. I’m even eating less in support of you.�

“It was just so overwhelming because it’s like you have been institutionalised,� she said. “You are so used to seeing the same greenery and faces and suddenly ‘Wham’ you get a taste of home.�

Lauren read David’s letters from pals Tito Jackson and Jane Russell and he looked emotional, especially when he heard that Michael Jackson had been watching his jungle antics.

His first letter from Tito Jackson read: “Respect to you for staying in the jungle and not leaving in the first six hours. But you must have a hundred and one reasons for staying there and everyone sends their love. My kids think you are the best Uncle in the world for doing this at your age and after all you have been through in the past few years. David, how are you coping without the maid and the chef? Have you told them about Vaginika Seaman yet? Michael was watching you on TV in London recently and told me: ‘That man never changes but I wish him all the best and would love to see him win the show as he has come a long way in that jungle. Rather him than me. Ha ha ha’.�

Matt looked particularly upset and had a definite tear in his eye as Faith read his letter from his girlfriend Emma.

“To my gorgeous boy, I can’t quite believe we haven’t spoken for over a week. I’ve been utterly lost not having you around and there is a whopping great hole permanently next to me that only you can fill so make sure you don’t lose too much weight mate. I’ll finish this note by saying spending this much time away from you has only confirmed for me even more that I don’t want to be without you again. I don’t work without you. You are the love of my life and I’m so proud of you for staying true to who you are and not putting on an act for the cameras. I love you with all of my heart, body and soul from my head to my toes and back. I love you Matthew.� Emma xxxx.

Jan read Jason’s letters and he was already in tears before she had even begun because of the photograph that he had seen of his family at the Versace hotel where they and all the other friends and family were waiting for their loved ones to return.

“Dear Daddy, I miss you so much that I’m keeping a diary so you don’t miss anything I’ve done while you’re in the jungle. I love you so much. Gemma.�

“Dear Daddy, I love you so much and I’ve lost another tooth. Love from Zac.�

“J, I think the kids have said the important stuff. We all miss and love you so much. Love always, Angela.�

Phina was also blubbing as Myleene read her letter from friend Frances: “Your friends and family are so proud of you and remember the big guy is looking on. The Toxteth massive are threatening to parachute food into camp. Stefano promises to spoil you like a Princess when you get out of the jungle.�

David read Lauren’s letter from her husband Craig: “Everyone back home sends their love. You’re my, and the girls, Queen of the Jungle. The girls miss you loads but they are telling anyone who will listen that you are in the jungle and they have come to Oz to rescue you and you are the best mummy in the whole world. Not just waiting but aching to see you. Love you to the Mars.�

Malandra read Dean’s letter from his twin girls Charlotte and Chloe which also saw him filling up: “Hi Daddy, we think you are doing really well. Keep up the good work. When you’d done the trial we thought you was going to faint. It was very funny. We are all very proud of you so be careful of the spiders and the snakes and we all love you so, so much. Much love from Chloe, Char and Mummy.�

Matt read Faith’s letter from partner Len and she got so choked during the reading that she couldn’t even speak.

“It seems so long since you left. I miss you so much. You seem to be doing so well. We’d like to see more of you when you let your hair down.�

Scott read Jan’s letter from friend Sue:

“Everyone I know is backing you to overcome whatever else you have to do. Keep focussed and you may even become Queen of the Jungle. But if not, you’ve proved yourself to be one amazing woman.�

Jan read Scott’s letter and he was thrilled to hear from his best friend Hofit. The letter was a fitting end to all of the letters from home and the celebrities had a laugh listening to it.

“Who would have thought that my favourite pampered Princess would last in the jungle this long. I miss my partner in crime, my gossip buddy. I can see that you have settled well and adjusted to your new home. Who could have ever thought you could live with eleven strangers and now five straight men! Everyone is cheering you on and no matter what happens now Scotty, you are Queen of the Jungle.�

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It was, sad to say, between Toby and Dean Gaffney as to who was to be the first celebrity to leave the jungle for good, with all having to bid Toby a very emotional good bye. He had been very popular amongst his fellow campers with his always cheerful and funny behaviour. Romantic Jan, in particular will miss him as will David, his musical partner.

Phina Oruche was the star of the show today as she, in spite of her fear of the alligators, praying to God for help, slid into the murky waters, dived in beneath the transparent covered tops with ‘who knows what’ for company in the waters, to bring back all of the six stars and thus winning immunity for the women’s team. It had been no easy task, sublime madness as she later put it, with the huge alligators slithering down the transparent slides and climbing over the wooden dividers, to join her, while she had to dive under from one division to another, surfacing through the ringed air holes, to plunge back into the murky water in search of stars, not knowing what else she had to contend with down there. Phina is also to be admired for apologising to Scott, on the women’s return to base camp, for the scratches and bite she had given him in the fight over the treat chest. Scott gave up in the ‘What Lurks Beneath’ trial, after retrieving only one star. Beaten by the girls once again and to make it worse, beaten by his ‘enemy’, Phina.

The women were jubilant at being reunited with the men but the men were not as they had come to enjoy the all male camp. Scott in particular, was very upset at the return of the women. Once the women take over the cooking the men should cheer up. The concert in the jungle, put together by David Gest, was excellent with Jan Leeming stealing the show by singing ‘Summer Time’.

What horrendous trials are still awaiting the remaining celebrities and who will be the next celebrity to leave the jungle forever?

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As the boys happily sang Sinitta classic ‘Boys Boys Boys’ they reflected on how much they enjoy their male only camp blissfully unaware that the girls were packing up to return.

“I’m really enjoying the boys’ camp more,� Scott reflected to murmurs of agreement from his fellow campers. Even Toby had to agree: “I think now that I can say that I like it like this.�

Singing ‘Hi-ho, Hi Ho it’s off to work we go’ the girls trooped off back to Base Camp, although Phina lagged behind with an unamused look on her face.

Under whelmed at their appearance, the boys managed to conceal their disappointment with one notable exception, although he saved his annoyance for the Bush Telegraph.

“I’m really pissed off that the girls have come back to camp and I’d obviously rather they weren’t there,� Scott spat. “The rest of the girls are treating me very differently and that makes me feel like a right c**t. I feel like walking at the moment because I don’t want to be around those girls for more than two seconds.�

When the girls arrived, it didn’t take long for things to kick off again between Scott and Phina.

After ranting to all the girls about the biting incident Scott focused his attention on the root cause of his anger – Phina. “You never should have bitten me,� he moaned.

Phina couldn’t see the problem because she had warned him in advance that she was going to bite!

She eventually apologised for biting him but Scott still wouldn’t let it lie. The pair argued furiously and went over the same point about who used physical violence against whom.

“Please vote me off, I don’t want to be here it’s horrid,� Phina later said.

Under David’s watchful guidance, Scott and Phina later made up and she told him that she would like to be friends although Scott failed to return the gesture.

Hugging him Phina said: “I can be such an alley cat. I’m sorry. I hope that we can be friends.�

It was the moment the whole camp, and all of Britain, had been waiting for – David’s talent extravaganza.

The legendary music producer has put on shows all over the world featuring some of the biggest names in pop but never before had he staged such star spangled concert.

As an appreciative audience took their seats, Master of Ceremonies Gest took centre stage.

He quickly introduced the first act …..the Klass Bula Dancers.

The dancing ladies took centre stage and belted out a bizarre ditty:

“Let us clean the house with a mop, I’m a strawberry, you’re a strawberry, I’m a strawberry, Stop, Caterpillar.�

‘Slut Eater and Buckaroo’ were next up. The trio of Lauren, Scott and Phina did their version of Shirley Bassey’s Big Spender and then it was Jan’s turn in the spotlight.

Leaning seductively against a tree and backlit by a lantern Ms Leeming gave her own very special rendition if Summer Time to an audience stunned into silence.

“Please welcome a young lady making her debut tonight,� David announced. “She starred in Emmerdale – Malandra Burrows.�

Taking a moment to compose herself, Mal told the assembled throng: “Thank you so much. I’d like to dedicate this song to all my new antipodean friends. Thanks so much for sharing this experience. It’s been absolutely amazing.�

Betcha By Golly Wow was accompanied by what could have been misconstrued to be a slow handclap from the crowd. Warming to her moment in the limelight she then gave a second number – Stylistics classic ‘I Can’t Give You Anything’.

“Wow, such talent in the Bush,� a stunned Gest proclaimed before adding:

“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the Momma of the organisation, the one everyone loves, two tons of fun – Faith Brown.�

Dragging Toby up to help her she serenaded him with the Sugababes’ Push The Button before collapsing in hysterics.

Saving the best til last David told the crowd: “To end this wonderful array of talent, it is talent I think that’s what we are doing, are you ready for the theme of I’m A Celebrity – Part 6.�

Whoops and whistles accompanied David and Toby who performed their world exclusive rap which has been literally days in the making.

A stage struck David stumbled over the words but was baled out by his rapping partner.

“It started at the Versace everybody having a last meal;

“Holy Foccacia�

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War is raging in the two camps with much hostility between the teams and within the camps. Phina Oruche and Jan Leeming are at loggerheads, tears from those missing family and friends and male concern for Jan, in the all female camp. It is getting a lot tougher now, with much fighting, tears, bickering, hunger and frayed nerves. The next Bushtucker trial will mean the winner’s camp will be immune from the first eviction, so competitiveness has reached boiling point.

After a hearty, sea food feast and sound sleep, in the women’s Snake Rock Camp and rice in the men’s Base Camp, the women awoke with full tummies, singing and dancing whereas the men opened their eyes in misery, empty tums and complaining of no energy. There was concern for David Gest who would not eat anything until Matt Willis managed to feed him a couple of spoons of rice. (I DO WISH THEY HAD THEIR NAMES ON THEIR CLOTHES IN THE FRONT AS WELL AS THE BACK SO THAT WE CAN SEE WHO IS WHO especially when it comes to Matt and Toby Ansis).

One by one, the men trudged off to the Bush Telegraph Room to complain of their hunger, failing health and energy, with Scott declaring that he would fight to the death to bring food back for the men. Jan, wailing in exasperation, at the end of her energy, crying buckets, saying that the public were trying to break her by voting her to do all the trials and Phina, unsussessfully attempted to console her by stating that they enjoyed watching her but she could not be comforted and it ended with a really nasty argument between them.

Phina suggested that Jan either feigned fainting or refused to do the next trial. Scott Henshall adamantly stated that if the trial was eating bugs, then the girls could win, in spite of the men living on ‘the delusion of eating, in their dreams’. The Bushtucker Duel meant that the two contestants had to out-eat the other, to win. Both refused to eat the locusts and kangaroo testicles, anus, balls, eyes and tongue. They consumed a gooey grub-smoothie, smelling of dirty feet and a foul cheesy, mouth burning fruit, earning two stars respectively but Scott won the contest by adding a silk worm to his meal, jumping up and down and stamping his feet to down it, earning a third star. Poor little things, referring to the silkworms.

They had been urged by Ant and Dec to eat more of the ‘feast’, as many had done in the past, everything being safe to eat. Jan and Scott remained immovable. Jan suggested that Ant and Dec try it and asked if they ever had, to be told ‘don’t be ridiculous, of course not’. Scott arrived back at camp, jubilantly shouting his victory and three stars, to the guys, too weak to do more than lie on their beds murmuring, ‘Good work Scott’. Jan explained to the girls that in spite of her agent telling her otherwise, the insects, etcetera, were the ‘the real thing’. Her fellow campers were very sympathetic and thrilled to be getting two meals to share amongst the six.

The men have been boasting of three wins out of five but they did not get their questions correct for the treats in the two chests, so lost out. Toby and Dean Gaffney brought back the treat chest after fighting it out with Myleene Klass and Phina. Myleene remarked on how the two men had been shouting at each like ‘a married couple’ Each team had to carry a life sized dummy up and down the banks in the jungle, detangling it from the strings they had to follow, till they could unlock the padlock with the attached key. The girls were not physically able to cope, as much as they wanted the chilled champagne and large slab of chocolate. Unfortunately, the men lost out too as they, once again, did not get the question right. The men were really disappointed at getting the question wrong but whooped loudly in delight to dupe the girls into thinking think that they had. It worked. All, bar David, enjoyed their meal of avocado, potatoes and emu sausages. As starving as he was, David would not eat the emu sausage. Looking pale and frail, he had both camps worrying about him.

The trial for immunity will have twelve stars in the murky river water, ‘What Lurks Beneath’, guarded by alligators amongst other challenges and the person chosen by the public from each team, will have to dive for the stars. Malandra Burrows (named after MALcolm, dad and sANDRA, Mom) was hoping to be chosen for this trial but Phina was the publics choice to compete against her ‘arch enemy’, Scott Will the fluff fly again, after the notorious battle where these two fought over a treat chest, leaving Scott bitten and scratched. Scott threw his hat to the ground, in anger at having to do the trial with Phina who did an exhilarating war dance. Let the games begin!!!

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It is open war between Base Camp (men) and Snake Rock Camp (women) after the most publicised Scott Henshall and Phina’s violent wrestling match. Scott’s stories of Phina’s attack worsening with each telling and the disgraced Phina Orusche wanting to go home. As does the poor starving David, showing his chubby torso for all to see, woefully declaring himself skinny and dramatically warning that people have died after a week of no food, much to Jason Donovan’s amusement. The men were down to rice for all meals, refusing to eat the beans and the women were chewing raw beans, tasting of crayons (Phina getting violently ill) as if they were peanuts, as they did not have the energy to cook them.

Scott and Jan Leeming set off, hand in hand, to tackle Bushtucker trial ‘Catch a Falling Star’. They were dropped out of a plane 14,000 ft above the ground with parachutes opening at 12,000 ft and being held, from the back, by an experienced person. Although both were terrified, they did not show it as they plunged to the ground, Jan first, catching colourful flares (stars) on their way down. Jan won with 4 stars, Scott getting 2 of the six shot out to each of them, from the plane. Scott returned to camp with a suffering male ego, once again beaten by a woman, where a desperately hungry David Gest asked which woman they should barbeque first! The women enjoyed a banquet of tropical sea food after Phina led her fellow campers into wholeheartedly singing ‘For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow’ to a gratified Jan. There was concern for the hungry men, with Jan, opposed by Phina, suggesting that they let the men win the tucker chest.

Dean Gaffney and Malandra Burrows (called a Jungle Rat by her ex best friend whose family she is rumoured to have torn apart after a four year affair with her husband, according to ‘The Irish People’ newspaper) set off for the battle of the tucker chest. They had to climb rope ladders and swing out from a tree, to grab at the dangling key to the chest. After three valiant attempts, (Malandra, half-heartedly climbing no more than two rungs), Dean carried the chest triumphantly back to a jubilant six starving men. Sad to say they did not get the question right (who has the highest IQ, men or women?) In their shamed state, they said women, to live another foodless day (besides rice). We leave the men in a huddle with their arms around each singing ‘Always look on the bright side’.

Bug eating, Bushtucker Jewel, is the next trial coming up, with Jan and Scott once again, chosen by the public to battle it out for the ‘winner takes all’. Will her sympathy and horror at eating the creepy crawlies and worse, get Jan to let Scott win?????

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Bushtucker Trial ‘Operation’ was the challenge for Phina Oruche, voted to do so by the public and who, in turn, chose Jason Donovan to assist her. The goal being to retrieve the stars.

First Phina and then Jason had to take them carefully out of narrow crevices in the ground, without touching the sides. (The operation). Jason sat in the ‘waiting room’ and each time a side was touched, there would be a buzz and nasties would fall on an ever cheerful Jason. The rolls were reversed half way. Interestingly, Phina sang beautiful Christian music, praising the Lord throughout her ordeal in the waiting room and Jason came out blaspheming the name of Jesus. Two totally extreme reactions. (Why is all the bad language is beeped out but not when the campers blaspheme the name of Jesus? This must very offensive to the Christian viewers, if they are still watching) The team returned to camp, covered in all sorts of ‘critters,’ joyfully boasting of the six stars they had achieved and thus earning 6 meals to be shared amongst the 11 campers (soon to be 12).

The 12th Celebrity, Malanda Burrows was rescued by an astonished Lauren Booth and Matt Willis who found her deep in the jungle sitting on a swing, suspended approximately one hundred and fifty feet above the ground, with the food chest key dangling from her foot. To rescue her and the key they had to walk a tight wire and half way across lift her up onto the wire and then the three had to make it safely to the other side to get the chest which they triumphantly carried back to camp where the open mouthed campers, in utter amazement, welcomed Malanda into the family.

David Gest and Jan Leeming have been spending quality, musical time together. The producer and the ‘singer’.

The campers, having thoroughly enjoyed the meal, waited for Ant and Dec in anticipation, for the announcement of the next Bushtucker trial. The Snake Bite. A miserable Jan Leeming has once again been chosen to tackle a trial by putting her hands into a snake pit, with possible bites to retrieve the 12 stars. Will she do it???

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