CAITLYN Jenner has brought a “tough attitude” into the jungle in honour of her beloved late brother.
The reality TV star has been hiding a tragic secret from her campmates, but pals of Caitlyn has now claimed that the “painful” history will help her to make it to the final of the ITV show.
Caitlyn has found her time on the show difficult so far
Caitlyn was 26 when her younger brother, Burt, died while driving a Porsche that the Olympian had allowed him to borrow.
Fresh off her 1976 win at the Montreal Olympics, Caitlyn had returned home to Canton, Connecticut, to give a speech at her former high school.
A car dealership lent Caitlyn the car and she agreed to allow Burt to drive it to the petrol station to fill up the tank.
He took a friend, 16-year-old Judith Hutchings, but as Caitlyn revealed in her autobiography, Burt took the Old Canton Road which was “old, it was narrow and curvy”.
Burt died at the age of 18
The 70-year-old found fame as an Olympian and later on Keeping Up With The Kardashian’s
“There was a rise, and Burt took it too fast. The Porsche went airborne and then crooked,” she wrote.
It hit a tree and then a rock wall of sizeable boulders. Hutchings was flung from the car and killed instantly. Burt suffered critical injuries.
I have struggled with guilt.”
The Jenner family then made the heartbreaking decision to turn off Burt’s life-support machine.
Speaking to The Mirror, a source close to the 70-year-old said: “Caitlyn has already had to deal with so much in her lifetime.
Losing her brother was a really painful time in her life but she got through it.
She is made of tough stuff and shes bringing that attitude to the jungle with her.
“For an eighteen-year-old kid whos just graduated from high school, few things in life, if anything, are sweeter than tooling around town in a Porsche 911,” Caitlyn wrote in her book, The Secrets Of My Life.
“What if I had never taken the car from the dealer?” she continued.
“What if I had never lent it to Burt?
“Why did he pick up an innocent young woman who had her whole life in front of her? Why did he drive so carelessly?”
Caitlyn has been subjected to two Bushtucker Trials on the ITV show already
Caitlyn has already appeared in I’m A Celebrity in the US in 2003
She added: “Never in my life have I ever beat myself up about it. It is a mechanism of protection, I know, but I have come to the conclusion that it was Burts day to die, just as, on the beaches of Normandy, it was my fathers day not to.
“It was the way it was. The accident had a fate and will of its own: two people tragically lost their lives, and my brother was the one responsible.
“But I have to move on because so much of my life has been about moving on get over it, get through it, dont show outward emotion because it only leads to inner emotions, and I must keep those in check. The floodgates open and I am done.
