Price apologises for jungle walkout
A tearful Katie Price apologised tonight for quitting I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! – later adding that the jungle had reminded her of Peter Andre.
The glamour girl said she was leaving “with my head between my toes in shame” after being repeatedly chosen for stomach-churning bushtucker trials by the public.
After her exit, the mother-of-three said she had proved herself and was missing her children.
In a foul-mouthed rant after being picked to appear in her seventh trial, she said: “I’m just not doing it. I f****** hate it here. S***hole. I f****** hate it. S***hole.”
She later told campmates she was leaving, adding that she did not need the money.
“If I thought about my reasons for being here, what are they?” she said. “A cheque for all of us is always attractive but it’s not as if I can’t earn money at home, it’s not always about the money. I met a husband here, had kids and I’ve had so much s***, coming back is like a big circle for me.
“When Pricey makes a decision, she sticks with it. I’m really sorry for letting everyone down but I can’t continue this journey for personal reasons.
“I’ll walk with my head between my toes in shame and I’ll probably regret it, I feel sick for letting people down, I’m gutted myself I’m leaving.”
A spokesman for the show said there were “no current plans” to replace Price on the show.
The glamour girl turned best-selling author had entered the jungle in the wake of her divorce from Andre, whom she met during her previous stint on the show.
In an interview after the show, she added: “The whole place reminded me of Pete from the moment I woke up, the afternoon to the moment I went to sleep, every second it was Pete, Pete, Pete and although they were amazing, happy memories I had in there, I’d lie there and think those good memories are way gone but then I was still there with constant reminders of Pete, Pete, Pete, Pete.
“It was hard to deal with before I went in there, I thought I’ll walk in there and either break down or deal with the closure. I walked in and they (the other celebrities) all welcomed me and it was so ironic that I had the same bed as last time; nobody wanted it because the bonfire smokes over it.
“That was really, really hard to deal with because waking up in the mornings I’d wake up and look over and think Peter’s going to be there and then I’d be like, course Pete’s not going to be there, I’m not with Pete any more.”
Her months in the public eye, as she and Andre slugged it out in a bitter PR battle, seemed to have acted to turn the public against her.
Viewers voted again and again to put her up for the nasty trials which have seen her crunching fish eyes, driving slowly through a web full of spiders and drinking a cockroach smoothie.
Price was regularly seen spilling out of her bra and bikini top since entering the jungle a week ago.
The model, who was reportedly being paid far more than any of the other contestants, is the second person to quit the show this series. Dancer Camilla Dallerup left the show after just three days on medical advice after she struggled with exhaustion on the show.
Price split from Andre in the spring after five years together and their relationship soon descended into a war of words.
She has since begun a relationship with cage fighter Alex Reid, who recently took part in a publicity stunt for her new book in which he attended a book signing in drag.
I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! averaged 8.7 million viewers last week, the show claimed.
