Holly Willoughby reveals she felt safer in crime-ridden Costa Rican jungle with Bear Grylls than home after kidnap plot

TV’S Holly Willoughby felt safer successful the narco authorities of Costa Rica portion filming her caller amusement than she did successful the UK pursuing the crippled to termination her.

She made Celebrity Bear Hunt successful the Central American state wherever the fig of drug-related killings, hijackings and different crimes are entity high.

But Holly says she recovered it an flight aft the whirlwind of attraction astir her astatine the time.

That came aft Holly discontinue This Morning successful October 2023 erstwhile she learned astir 37-year-old information defender Gavin Plumb’s horrific crippled to kidnap and execution her.

Holly, 43, said: “It was conscionable rather bully to beryllium immersed successful that and being distant from everything, being that overmuch successful the jungle, successful nature, wherever your telephone doesn’t enactment and being disconnected from stuff.

“And actually, successful immoderate ways, it felt safer being determination than it did being backmost here.”

The eight-part Netflix series, streaming from today, had a peculiar screening past nighttime successful Leicester Square successful London’s West End.

The amusement features a radical of celebrated faces — including Mel B, Lottie Moss, Una Healy, Boris Becker and Shirley Ballas — who person to evade seizure by endurance adept Bear Grylls.

Holly added: “I was lasting adjacent to Bear Grylls, I felt wholly safe. It doesn’t get overmuch safer. I’m like, ‘Don’t archer maine (about the dangers here) delight don’t archer me’.”

Speaking astir Plumb, who was jailed for life with a 16-year minimum word past year, Holly said: “When thing similar that happens, you person a determination to make.

“You either decide, ‘Right, I tin instrumentality this connected committee and it tin perfectly impact each aspects of my life’. Or I tin marque a prime to go, ‘Let’s absorption connected everything that’s affirmative and good’.”

She besides said that signing up for Celebrity Bear Hunt felt similar the commencement of a caller section for her.

The telly favourite added: “I’d conscionable got to that signifier successful my beingness wherever I thought, ‘I privation to effort thing new’. I was tense astir it, due to the fact that it was a existent departure from what I usually do.

"Everything you bash and everything that feels caller ever feels similar a caller chapter.”

It is besides the archetypal clip she has presented solo for immoderate time.

But she said: “Really, I ne'er consciousness similar I’m connected my own, due to the fact that you’re either talking to the camera, which feels similar you’re talking to someone, oregon you’re with the celebrities similar I americium connected this.

“I ever effort to find a transportation somewhere.”