I’m a Celebrity: All of the contestants who have quit the jungle early – and for unusual reasons
The grisly trials, gross critters and tough living conditions that come with competing on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! are not for the faint-hearted. Already on the ITV show this year, both Jamie Lynn Spears (sister of Britney) and food critic Grace Dent have left the Australian jungle citing “medical reasons” for their exit, while YouTuber Nella Rose has threatened to quit several times.
After leaving the jungle on 27 November, Dent said that the conditions that the celebrities were kept under – no phones or contact with loved ones, living outdoors and in wet weather – eventually became too challenging.
She also shed light on one of the frightening incidents that forced her to leave the jungle, recalling the moment when a cockroach found its way into her ear canal following the “Scarena” trial, which involved wearing an American football-style helmet filled with insects.
“For as long as I live, I shall never forget the cockroach that entered my ear canal and the sound of its little feet creeping closer down to my brain,” she wrote in an Instagram post shared on 30 November.
“It took us two goes to lure him [the cockroach] out. Sat on the grass behind the ‘Scarena’ he finally washed up.”
Then on Wednesday had left the jungle, also due to “medical reasons”.
