Josie Gibson clears up huge misconception about I’m A Celebrity jungle

Big Brother, I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and This Morning prima Josie Gibson, 39, is surely keeping engaged – with a caller Christmas amusement connected Channel 4, a luxury question amusement connected Channel 5 and a immense run with Tombola bingo.

Here she talks tips for jungle newbies, a crippling fearfulness of spiders and however it’s each astir lounging astir successful silk pyjamas…

Hey Josie, what are you up to?

I’ve been successful my silk pyjamas each day. I know! Who bash I deliberation I americium these days? But each week I’ve been filming a marque caller amusement with Channel 4 called The Ultimate Christmas Gift Guide with me, Josie Gibson!

Did you get immoderate gifts retired of it?

Not one! I got location and I was doing an online store for the gifts that were connected the amusement due to the fact that they had to support them to sprout them.

Will you beryllium watching I’m a Celebrity…?

Are you kidding?

Are you jealous of them oregon are you, “Thank God I tin ticker successful my silk PJs?“

I’m, ‘Thank God I tin ticker successful silk pyjamas.’ Don’t get maine wrong, what an unthinkable acquisition but, for me, you cognize erstwhile radical spell successful and say, ‘Oh I’m acrophobic of spiders’? Well, mine’s an existent due phobia truthful that ruined it a spot for maine –
I was terrified. And retired there, the spiders are connected steroids, arsenic large arsenic your head!

What proposal would you springiness to idiosyncratic astir to spell in?

I would say, ‘Expect the worst.’ It’s a batch harder than I thought it would beryllium but successful my bid it did rainfall a lot. Just don’t deliberation this is simply a TV workplace with a spot of greenery – this is the existent jungle and you’re sharing it with venomous snakes, spiders that wound and worldly similar that.

You had an brushwood with a spider…

Yeah. I made myself look similar a close idiot. They tried to enactment maine successful a container with a spider and it came up down me… They said they’ve ne'er seen anyone determination truthful fast. I astir gave myself a splinter getting retired of that box. I deliberation I started crying it was that bad.

Who was successful determination with you?

So determination was me, Danielle Harold from EastEnders, Nigel Farage, Sam Thompson, Nick Pickard from Hollyoaks, Grace Dent,Jamie Lynn Spears, she was truthful nice. I got connected with each of them. Oh and we had Fred Sirieix from First Dates. Everyone thinks we don’t get connected but we do. In the jungle, you’ve lone got each different truthful you’ve got to get on.

What were the atrocious bits astir the show?

When I was connected the dunny erstwhile I thought, ‘What is that large achromatic thing?’ It was immense and I couldn’t enactment it retired truthful I ran retired of determination and it was a spider and the assemblage was bigger than my fist.

And the worst happening you had to eat?

Kangaroo tail. Or a crocodile’s foot.

Do you support up with your campmates?

We’ve got a WhatsApp radical truthful we pass successful determination from clip to clip but we’re each truthful busy. But I enactment with Sam, due to the fact that he’s connected This Morning with us.

You won Big Brother. Is it antithetic to beryllium shacked up with regular radical alternatively than celebs?

No, I don’t deliberation it is. For me, Big Brother was a batch easier and that’s due to the fact that I didn’t person a small boy. When you’re successful the jungle, I astir apt wasn’t the champion mentation of myself due to the fact that I was missing Reg truthful much. As soon arsenic you land, you get your chaperone, you get to marque your past telephone telephone and they instrumentality your telephone disconnected you and that’s it, nary connection with anyone for a full month.

Did you deliberation you could triumph I’m A Celeb?

Because of my fearfulness of spiders, I knew
I wouldn’t… I thought I’d beryllium 1 of the archetypal out. My jungle mates were superb – they knew not to enactment maine up for tasks due to the fact that of my phobia – but I privation I’d cured my phobia earlier I went.

What other is going connected for you?

I’ve been filming a luxury question amusement for Channel 5, retired adjacent year. I’ve been everywhere, babes… it’s each astir luxury but we person recovered immoderate of the champion hotels I’ve ever stayed successful connected a budget, too.

Your Tombola run is astir mundane things we each hatred doing. What’s yours?

Research done by Tombola shows fig 1 is cleaning the toilet, but for maine it’s cleaning retired the junk container from my emails. I’ve joined their run called Open For Fun, wherever they’ve enactment QR codes each astir large cities. So if you privation to enactment connected your measurement number and triumph prizes…

Are you a bingo girl, yourself?

I’m going to fto you successful connected a small concealed –
I bought my archetypal ever car with my bingo winnings!

Josie has partnered with Tombola, Britain’s biggest bingo site, connected its Open For Fun campaign. Look retired for QR codes crossed the UK to uncover hundreds
of prizes @tombola_uk

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