Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver said she had not planned to talk about her adoption on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! The soap actress, 59, became the third celebrity to be eliminated from the ITV reality show on Monday, following in the footsteps of Loose Women star Charlene White and TV presenter Scarlette Douglas.
In her first interview since departing the Australian camp, Cleaver told Good Morning Britain: “You are literally looking at the sun and trying to figure out what time of day it is and where the sun is in the sky, you’ve lost all track of time, you’re sleep deprived, you don’t know what time you’re going to bed, you don’t know what time you’re getting up, so it’s very disorientating and I don’t think you realise that when you watch the show.
“I mean, I’ve watched the show from the beginning, I’ve been the best armchair critic there could be but until you’re actually in there it’s hard, it’s a really hard slog.”
Cleaver, who has played Eileen Grimshaw on the cobbles since 2000, added she had not planned on speaking to her campmates about her adoption. She said she "felt comfortable" to talk about it in the camp.
“I have been quite private, I have never spoken about that out of respect for everyone, but I felt so comfortable in there with those people and Emma and Kate, my brother and my mum said ‘say whatever you feel, what you’re happy to feel’, so I did,” she said.
