Charlene White has become the first contestant to leave I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! after a vote by the public.
The 42-year-old Loose Women star was announced as the celebrity with the fewest votes on Friday’s show by hosts Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.
On leaving the Australian jungle, she told the Geordie duo: "This is really, really weird."
When asked by McPartlin and Donnelly about being the maternal figure in the camp, White said: "Once you are a parent, you take on this role wherever you go. "
She said she would like Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver or former rugby player Mike Tindall to win I’m a Celebrity.
She's kept hungry bellies fed from the start and took a leap of faith into the jungle, but your votes mean @CharleneWhite is the first Celebrity whose jungle experience has come to an end! 💛 #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/MTepA5uvqe
— I'm A Celebrity... (@imacelebrity) November 18, 2022
Also during Friday’s show, White and Boy George took on the latest Bushtucker trial called Watery Grave where they had to go in two separate tombs and pass over stars to each other with magnets.
Water spiders, eels and mud crabs were added to their tombs and White said: "I don’t think I can do this. I’ve just come out of the water as I can’t get in with the eels."
She then said: "I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! I was trying, I can’t."
When she returned to camp, everyone gave White a hug and Cleaver later gave her a hug while White cried.
Before she left the jungle, we caught up with @charlenewhite to find out what she's got planned, 'First Things First' ⭐️ #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/N3zeuagV7e
— I'm A Celebrity... (@imacelebrity) November 19, 2022
White said earlier on the show that as she is an "impartial journalist", she cannot share the RV with Matt Hancock who is a "sitting MP" and may be a minister again.
She and Hancock had been gifted the more comfortable sleeping quarters after the MP was made leader in a previous episode of the show but she has been sleeping on the camp beds outside.
White said: "I would say that every conversation we’ve had that Matt’s been here constantly involves me doing calculations in my head about impartiality and making sure it doesn’t go too much in one direction.
"Constantly thinking about those guidelines and the broadcasting rules. It’s a constant thing that’s in my head on a daily basis."
She added: "He gets it. He understands it. He understands my job. It’s just a bizarre situation, but that’s how I live my life on a daily basis."
The camp also elected a new leader and voted for Tindall, who made Cleaver his deputy.
I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here! continues on Virgin Media One at 9pm.
Source: Press Association
