What happened to I’m A Celeb…South Africa stars after the jungle – armed robbery ordeal to boob job and ‘5 lovers’ claim
AFTER eating Witchetty grubs and being buried alive with rats and spiders, most people would baulk at returning for more Bushtucker trials.
But some stars are gluttons for punishment, as the line-up for the latest I’m A Celebrity challenge shows.
Nine jungle legends have been announced for the ‘all stars’ version, filmed in South Africa, which airs next month.
They include former supermodel Janice Dickinson, boxer Amir Khan, soap star Helen Flannaghan and former Countdown number cruncher Carol Vorderman.
But what have these I’m A Celebrity icons been doing since checking out of jungle camp?
Here we look at the drama and scandals in the nine lives of the all star campmates.
Helen Flanagan
The former Coronation Street star did her jungle stint in 2012, where she finished in seventh place.
The actress – who played Rosie Webster in the soap – was handed seven Bushtucker Trials in a row, but annoyed viewers and producers by chickening out before trying – leaving her campmates with nothing but rice and beans for 10 days.
Helen and then fiance, footballer Scott Sinclair, went on to have three kids – Matilda, seven, Delilah, four, and one-year-old Charlie.
Sadly they split in October, after she returned from filming the pre-recorded all stars show, with sources saying she broke her engagement ring and consulted a medium, seeing it as a bad omen, before breaking off the relationship.
Helen recently admitted she struggles with being a single mum, saying: “I find being a mum hard.
“I feel tired most of the time and like I have to split myself into three, but I just love them so much so would never change it for the world and just give them all I’ve got every day.”
In February, Helen revealed she had undergone a boob job after years of breastfeeding left her feeling “ you could tie them in a bow.”
She said she wanted to make her boobs “pert” again adding: “I’ve really got my confidence back,” after making a swift recovery.
Amir Khan
Boxing champ Amir Khan appeared on the show in 2017, alongside winner Georgia Toffolo.
His most memorable moment was secretly munching the strawberries he won in the Dingo Dollars challenge with Iain Lee, and leaving his hungry campmates fuming.
The Bolton boxer, who has been married to Faryal Makhdoom for ten years and is dad to Lamaisah, eight, Alayna, four, and Muhammad Zaviyar, three, returned to the ring after his jungle stint and revealed he was unable to retire when he wanted to because he had “lost” £30million.
In 2016, after a £9million fight against Canelo Alvarez, he was told he needed surgery and said he planned to hang up his gloves, but a check on his finances left him in shock.
“At that time, I probably made about £30million in boxing but guess what? I don’t know where it all went,” he told BBC 5 Live.
“It wasn’t because I was a big spender. It’s about having a team around you. Obviously everyone is happy, apart from me.”
This weekend the 26-year-old fighter said he thought he and Faryal were “going to die” after an armed robber pointed a gun at him, forcing him to hand over his £72,000 watch.
The pair were targetted by a gang outside a London restaurant in April last year, and he told The Sun: “In that moment, you think the worst… that the kids could be growing up without their dad, that Faryal would be raising them on her own.
“Your life flashes before your eyes. I leant my head to the right because I thought, if he is going to shoot me, he can shoot the side of my head. I don’t want to see the bullet coming.”
Carol Vorderman
Carol was the eighth celebrity to be voted off 2016’s series and was top of the producers’ wish list for the all stars version after “giving the younger girls a run for their money in the jungle shower”.
She also gobbled down turkey testicles in an eating trial with Scarlett Moffatt.
The 62-year-old maths whiz, who lives with her two children in Bristol, recently revealed she has five lovers and is having “the best time”.
She added that these are not one-night-stands but a long-running arrangement with “special friends”, who all know about each other, and that she was no longer desperate to settle down.
“It’s a happy place to live,” she said. “The only thing I was sold when I was young was a fairytale where a poor girl meets a prince, they get married, and they lived happily ever after.
“This whole assumption: ‘Have you got a partner yet? Have you got a man?’ Well, no actually I’ve got five.”
Janice Dickinson
Former supermodel Janice finished second behind that year’s King of the Jungle, Christopher Biggins.
But while viewers loved her outrageous views on the other celebrities, she caused a string of bust-ups and was labelled “vile” by campmates.
The same year she joked about her extensive plastic surgery, telling a US chat show: “Everything about me is fake, and I’m perfect. Fake breasts, fake teeth, fake nails, fake hair. I’m perfect. Restylane, Botox, you name it. I’m the first to sign up for it.”
In 2013 Janice, who claims she was assaulted by Bill Cosby in the ’80s, became one of the first of many accusers to speak out publicly.
She testified at Cosby’s trial in 2018, saying the sitcom star raped her after giving her a pill that “rendered her motionless” in his Lake Tahoe, Nevada, hotel room.
Cosby spent three years in jail before his conviction for a string of sexual offences was overturned.
Jordan Banjo
Jordan first shot to fame with dance troupe Diversity, led by his older brother Ashley, on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009.
He joined Carol in the camp in 2016 and became so close to Larry Lamb that the soap star cried when Jordan was booted out.
He went on to present a backstage show for Dancing on Ice and fronted The Greatest Dancer with Alesha Dixon.
In September 2020, Jordan was caught in controversy over his infamous Black Lives Matter dance on BGT, which sparked tens of thousands of complaints to Ofcom.
He later said he and his family received death threats, and he had cement thrown over his Aston Martin as the backlash grew.
Jordan and wife Naomi, who share son Cassius Ashley, four, and daughter Mayowa ‘Mimi’ Angel, three, are expecting a baby boy this spring.
Paul Burrell
Princess Diana’s former butler slummed it in the jungle in 2004, and provided hours of entertainment with his shrieks and facial expressions in the Bushtucker Trials.
The previous year he fell out with Buckingham Palace after publishing his memoir, A Royal Duty.
More recently, Prince Harry slammed his book in his own controversial memoir, Spare, saying he was “milking” her death for money, adding: “It made my blood boil.”
Paul said he felt “discarded” by Harry, adding “I’ve been dismissed and I’m very sad about that.”
The divorced dad-of-two, who owned a florist in Cheshire which he sold four years ago, married male partner Graham Cooper in 2017.
In January Paul announced he is battling prostate cancer and he is currently undergoing radiotherapy.
Phil Tufnell
Crowned King of the Jungle in 2003, the former cricketer brought his famous sense of humour to the camp.
Tuffers, who retired from cricket in 2002, went on to star in Strictly Come Dancing and The Jump, as well as hosting a cricket show on Radio 5 with Michael Vaughan.
The dad-of-two, who has been married three times, was also team captain on Question of Sport from 2008 to 2021, when he was controversially axed along with co-stars Sue Barker and Matt Dawson in a BBC shake-up.
Shaun Ryder
The Happy Mondays singer came second, behind Stacey Solomon, in 2010.
Shaun became an unlikely national treasure and famously braved a snake bite, describing it as “like putting your hand through sheet glass”.
The former heroin addict, who says he took up cycling to beat his addiction, went on the show after being sued for £160,000 by former management team Black Grape, using his fee and a £130,000 book deal to get him out of debt.
The 60-year-old dad-of-six was diagnosed with ADHD late in life and said, “When I was at school they didn’t know about ADHD, there were just four sets, one being the brightest and four being crowd control.”
He now stars alongside best pal Bez in Celebrity Gogglebox.
Shaun tragically lost his brother Paul last year.
Fatima Whitbread
The Olympic athlete took part in the eleventh season of I’m a Celeb in 2011, and memorably required help after getting a cockroach stuck up her nose.
While being interviewed for I’m A Celebrity… A Jungle Story, Fatima said she could “feel the furry little legs” of the critter.
The former javelin thrower, 62, revealed in her memoir that she had been abandoned by her abusive mother and grew up in a series of children’s homes.
She was also raped at 12 by a drunken boyfriend of her mum. At 14, she was adopted by javelin coach Margaret Whitbread, whom she called “my true mum”.
Since her jungle stint she has filmed a documentary, Fatima Whitbread: Growing Up in Care.
In 2018 she revealed she was planning to adopt a child, at 57, after son Ryan – now 25 – left for university.
But two years later she said looking after Margaret after she fell ill prevented her from going through with the adoption.
In September she took part in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.