I'm A Celebrity icon Nicola McLean reveals surprising detail of her infamous eating trial

I'm A Celebrity prima Nicola McLean has opened up astir her clip successful the jungle and the infamous eating proceedings she took portion successful during her stint connected the ITV world series

Nicola McLean has revealed conscionable however atrocious the infamous challenges connected I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! are.

Speaking to the Mirror's Will Foxx, the WAG revealed the crushed she really WANTED to instrumentality connected the gruesome eating proceedings during her stint successful the jungle and recalled however a gag to presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly got taken the incorrect mode during the Bushtucker Trial.

Nicola, who is the Mirror's authoritative 2024 I'm A Celebrity columnist, appeared connected the ITV world bid backmost successful 2008, finishing up successful sixth spot pursuing her eviction connected Day 18. But earlier becoming the seventh personage to get retired of there, Nicola enjoyed a slap-up meals of carnal testicles and eyeballs.

Tackling the proceedings dubbed I Scream Van alongside EastEnders fable and eventual King of the Jungle Joe Swash, Nicola wolfed down 3 crocodile eyes, silkworms, crickets and a kangaroo's testicle. The erstwhile glamour exemplary headed backmost to campy victorious, wherever she asked her chap campmates if she could autumn large acknowledgment to scoffing connected the carnal testicle.

"Obviously that was a gag but I retrieve the papers wrote astir that arsenic if I was being serious!" Nicola told Will during their chat earlier this evening. "I was evidently joking and nary however to springiness newspapers a bully line, due to the fact that everyone loves it, but the trials are worse than you spot connected telly!"

She went connected to reveal: "The eating trial... [points astatine her teeth] with these veneers determination is nary mode I would beryllium capable to bash it now. The kangaroo testicle and eyeball were truthful pugnacious I had to propulsion down to assistance maine chew it, truthful nary accidental I could bash it these days. I truly wanted the eating proceedings though! I indispensable beryllium 1 of the lone radical who did. It is the astir memorable proceedings and, arsenic specified a immense instrumentality of the show, I wanted to drawback the amusement with some hands and I felt truthful privileged to get it I was feeling similar I wouldn't person felt similar I had completed [the situation of the show] if I hadn't eaten a testicle.".

Nicola's travel down representation lane follows the prima revealing what she truly thinks of pals Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy's feud hitting the spotlight erstwhile again acknowledgment to Coleen's stint successful the jungle. With Rebekah's caller file successful The Sun stirring the pot, Nicola has weighed in, predicting that this could pb to the "funniest I'm A Celebrity yet".

As the Mirror's I'm A Celebrity columnist, she expressed her thoughts: "This is wherefore I accidental Rebekha Vardy is unapologetically her, due to the fact that I don't cognize anybody other who'd privation to bash a file penning astir Coleen Rooney aft each this drama. But you've got to emotion it. We each emotion a WAG play and the information that Becky is going to springiness america much for the adjacent 3 weeks is utterly genius."

She does person 1 niggling interest though: "I bash interest though that if Coleen is doing truly well, is Becky going to accidental she's doing well? I don't know. Wagatha is the acquisition that keeps connected giving. Coleen going into the jungle and Rebekah commenting connected it - who would person thought it? They're doing Ant and Dec's occupation for them."

Nicola continued, "They're going to person truthful overmuch worldly to enactment on. This could beryllium the funniest I'm A Celebrity yet. I respect beardown women and some of these girls are beardown successful antithetic ways. Can't hold to spot Coleen successful the jungle and can't hold to spot what Rebekah Vardy has got to accidental astir it."

Fans tin drawback Nicola's unrecorded takes connected I'm A Celebrity each Monday connected the Mirror's societal media platforms, and look guardant to her file successful adjacent Sunday's paper.

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