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I’m a Celebrity 2023: Meet the contestants entering the jungle

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ITV has officially announced the 2023 cast for I’m a Celebrity.

The new series will launch on Sunday (19 November), with this year’s crop including soap stars, TV presenters and a controversial former politician-turned-GB News host.

They’ll be hoping to follow in the footsteps of Lioness Jill Scott, who was crowned Queen of the Jungle in December 2022.

Below, we run through every single star entering the Australian jungle for the 21st series of I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!

Jamie-Lynn Spears

Jamie-Lynn Spears on ‘I’m a Celebrity (ITV)

Jamie-Lynn Spears, 32, is an American actor who starred in Nickelodeon series Zoey 101 – but she’s mostly known as being the sister of singer Britney Spears.

Jamie-Lynn has found herself in the headlines in the past decade due to a rivalry with her sister, who spoke out against her after being freed from her conservatorship in 2021.

She released a bestselling memoir, which led to Britney accusing her of “making money” off her name, and it’s because of this that Jamie-Lynn believes people have “every misconception you can have” about her. Jamie-Lynn told ITV that I’m a Celebrity “will be a nice way for people to see the real me”.

She said: “This is an opportunity to be myself and do something really cool and have some awesome experiences in the meantime.”

While she didn’t namecheck Britney, she said she got the “all-clear” from her family about signing up to the show, revealing she discussed her appearance “over with my family and my kids to make sure they were OK about me being gone for

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