'I'm a Celebrity' contestant Alison Hammond has said that Gillian McKeith admitted faking her fainting fits on the reality show.
According to the Daily Mail, the first time McKeith fainted on the show, it seemed the fear of taking part in a Bushtucker Trial had just become too much for her.
However when the nutritionist fainted a further two times on the show, once just as she was about to take part in a live trial, viewers started to doubt whether the incidents were real.
Hammond, who spent time with McKeith in the jungle, has revealed the TV star told her she "had" to faint in order to escape doing another task.
In an interview with Reveal magazine, the TV presenter 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.
"But when I told her afterwards that I was glad she fainted, she just said, 'I had to'. If you want to call that faking it, then so be it."
She added: "I believed Gillian when she said she couldn't work the digger. I also believed that she had a phobia of bugs, but now I'm out and talking to people, I'm starting to think differently about her.
"It seems like things she did were premeditated. Gillian's daughters knew the Jungle Gill song before she even sang it on the show, yet she said she made it up as she went along.
"She also knew to hide seasoning in her pants, yet she claimed she'd never seen the show before."
