LOOSE Women star Gloria Hunniford has revealed she was in talks to take part in this year’s series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!.
The 79-year-old would have been the oldest contestant ever; Stanley Johnson was previously the eldest camp mate when he entered the jungle at the age of 77.
Gloria said no to ITV bosses over her mosquito allergy
However, Gloria admitted that she decided to turn the show down after she realised exactly what she would be in for.
“Well this year… I had to have meetings with the producers and the editor,” she said.
“In one way I wanted to challenge myself, but when they were really honest with me and told me what it was like, I thought ‘well, I’m allergic to mosquitoes really badly, I’m a hospital case with that’.
“I could do without the food I think… I don’t think I could do all the picking up of wood with my dodgy knee,” she went on to explain on Loose Women yesterday.
“I don’t think I could do the snake bit, and I certainly couldn’t eat a pig’s brain.”
The Loose Women star would have been the oldest contestant ever
Gloria would have left behind her husband Stephen Way
Campers have already begun the terrifying Bushtucker Trials
They also had walk the plank at the top of one of Brisbane’s highest buildings
So far this series has seen the celebrities jump out of helicopters using parachutes and walk a plank situated at the top of a 334-foot tower block.
The jungle hopefuls were also left subjected to a torrential downpour, hail, thunder and lightening on their first night in the camp.
The 19th series of the show kicked off on November 17 and saw the likes of Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle, former England rugby star James Haskell and radio presenter Adele Roberts enter the camp with the hope of being crowned king or queen of the jungle.
On Monday fans saw Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway and Olympian-turned-reality star Caitlyn Jenner face the first Bushtucker Trial of the series.
Caitlyn was challenged with the first Trial
The campers scrambled out of this car as soon as they realised there were giant spiders also inside
Kate and Caitlyn went head-to-head in a Bushtucker Trial called Buggered Off which saw them suspended in a box 20 metres up in the air.
They then had to endue hundreds of critters being poured over their heads plus a load of rats while they tried to drop balls into a big hole below.
Caitlyn seemed cool as a cucumber while Kate screamed her head off, although they both only ended up getting two stars each for their camps.
But Caitlyn, 70, sparked fears that she may be the first camper to ask to leave the jungle as she broke down in tears at 1am in the morning.
Caitlyn broke down in the middle of the night
Being the first night in the jungle my head was spinning,” she said.
“Im kinda trying to figure out if Im doing the right thing. Im 70 years old now and is being in here the right way to use my time.
“Should I be home with my kids, playing with the grandchildren.
“Ive never quit at anything Ive ever done and Im thinking maybe its time I learned how to do that.
