Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly brought the first episode of I'm A Celebrity...South Africa to a close with the shock arrival of former campmate Gillian McKeith but her former co-star Shaun Ryder was not impressed.
At the end of Monday's episode, a mystery box was brought into the jungle and out popped iconic campmate, Gillian, best remembered for fainting during a live trial.
As the rest of the campmates looked on in shock, Gillian remarked: "I couldn't let you do this without jungle Gill!"
In a sneak peek at Tuesday's episode, Shaun is heard saying: "F****g hell," after Gillian's arrival.
Amir Khan says to Jordan Banjo: "He doesn't look happy. He's maybe thinking, 'Why did she come in?'"
"Is she as mad as a box of frogs?" Paul Burrell asks Shaun, away from Gillian, to which he replies: "Yes, last time I wanted to kill her."
Meanwhile, in Tuesday's episode, Gillian reveals all on why she thinks her I'm A Celebrity experience is going to be harder a second time around.
In her pre-show interview, she says: "It’s going to be more terrifying this time because back then, I didn’t know what to expect but this time I can’t use that as an excuse. What I felt before feels 1000 times worse now and all of it freaks me out but I feel I’ve got a calling to represent all the scaredy cats in Britain – and that is the reason why I’ve said yes."
She added: "Doing the programme didn’t change me. I learned that knowledge is fear. But one thing I would say is when I look back on the experience, it did surprise me that I could sleep outside. As a child, I’d never liked the idea of camping but sleeping in the hammock in the jungle was peaceful – so long as there were no insects crawling over you!”
Gillian also denied faking her fainting the last time around, despite accusations she fell to the floor to avoid doing trials.
“I have a history of fainting since childhood,” explains Gillian. “The day before we did the live Trial, I hadn’t had much to eat and I wasn’t feeling very well – which is the precursor to passing out. I have fainted several times and not just in the jungle. I even fainted at a wedding once when I was the bridesmaid. They were about to say: ‘do you take this man to be your husband?’ and I passed out.
“Sometimes you can stop yourself if you get close to the ground but the problem with the jungle is there were all these leeches and so there was no way I was going to throw myself on the ground.
“But I have never been able to forget about my fainting in the jungle! I have been reminded about I’m A Celebrity every single day since I came out by taxi drivers and people in the street! They all talk about it as if it were yesterday. They say I was entertaining. It might have been for them but it certainly wasn’t for me!”
I'm A Celebrity South Africa continues on ITV and ITVX on Tuesday at 9pm.
