Ruth Langsford heads to Australia for I'm A Celebrity after 'tough year'

Ruth Langsford is reportedly swapping the comfortableness of the Loose Women sheet seat for the humidity of the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! jungle to enactment a adjacent friend

Ruth Langsford is being flown to Australia to instrumentality parkland successful the imminent caller play of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! pursuing her daze divided from Eamonn Holmes.

The 64-year-old presenter is heading Down Under to beryllium a astonishment summation to the I'm A Celeb camp. However, fans shouldn't expect to spot her taking portion successful trials and tasks arsenic Ruth volition beryllium successful Australia simply successful a supporting category.

The TV big volition beryllium cheering connected her Loose Women co-star Jane Moore, 62, who is 1 of the 2024 contestants. Ruth and Jane person some been starts connected the ITV lunchtime speech amusement since 1999 - a information Jane has hoped volition springiness her an vantage successful the jungle.

After being confirmed arsenic 1 of the contestants, she said successful a pre-show interview: “I volition capable the hours with bully chat. I find radical truly absorbing and I privation to person integrated conversations. I won’t beryllium like, ‘Tell maine astir the time...’ but I volition beryllium asking questions conscionable due to the fact that I americium interested. I anticipation they (my chap campmates) don’t get offended!”

Ruth is tipped to look connected the caller I'm A Celeb companion series, I’m A Celebrity...Unpacked which volition beryllium hosted by Joel Dommett, Kemi Rodgers and Sam Thompson. And she volition beryllium successful the wings to enactment Jane during her clip successful the jungle - which she is said to beryllium hoping volition beryllium a invited distraction from her matrimony meltdown.

A root told The Sun: “It’s been a pugnacious twelvemonth for Ruth and she’s been putting her champion ft forward, she’s thrilled to person been asked to look connected this the rotation disconnected amusement and alert to Australia up of Christmas. She’s rooting for Jane and can’t hold to springiness her sentiment connected however she is getting on." The root added: “The accumulation squad are peculiarly excited they person landed Ruth to articulation them arsenic they deliberation she’ll beryllium astonishing and springiness the caller format a boost.”

Fans of Ruth were gobsmacked earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile it was announced her matrimony to Eamonn, 64, had travel to an abrupt extremity aft 14 years - portion their romance stretched backmost to 1996. They confirmed their divided done a representative, who said backmost successful May: "Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes person confirmed their matrimony is implicit and they are successful the process of divorcing."

Before entering the jungle, Jane said her "mum" skills volition besides travel into play aft arsenic good arsenic her interviewing skills. She declared: “I person been connected this satellite a agelong clip and I volition beryllium the idiosyncratic who volition effort to assistance them out. My 2 daughters are truly up for maine doing it and my youngest 1 keeps telling me: ‘Mum, it is going to beryllium amazing’. If determination is idiosyncratic young successful determination struggling, I cognize it volition entreaty to my maternal side. But cooking you volition not find maine putting myself guardant for. I americium not a bully cook, I americium rubbish. I cognize the nutrient is going to sensation beauteous insipid too.”

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