Charlene was the first star evicted from I’m A Celebrity (Picture ITV)
Charlene White has made her feelings known about Matt Hancock’s controversial arrival on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!.
During Friday’s edition, the Loose Women star was the first dumped from the jungle, and earlier in the week the ITV newsreader was accused of ‘rule-breaking’ by refusing to sleep in the RV after she was voted camp leader Hancock’s deputy earlier in the week.
The former health secretary stepped down from his position last year after CCTV footage emerged of him kissing his aide, and ultimately breaking social distancing guidelines.
Reflecting on her jungle, Charlene admitted that once the sitting MP touched down at camp the ‘laughs and jokes’ stopped.
‘I spoke to so many families that lost dads, mums, grandads, grandparents. As soon as he walked in, I thought, “I’m going to be walking a tightrope here,”‘ she told MailOnline.
She added: ‘I didn’t want anyone to feel like I was being too sympathetic to Matt because that would jeopardise the job that I love and jeopardise my journalistic integrity.
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‘It would have shattered the impartiality I’ve consistently had the past 20 years.’
Following her exit from the show, Charlene’s family shared that she was doing ‘great.’
‘One emotional reunion with her sister, a few telephone calls to family & friends, 3 showers (apparently very much needed after bathing in jungle water for weeks) & drinking lots of water, Charlene is doing great!,’ the post read.
When Charlene left camp, she was greeted on the bridge by her sister, with the pair sharing a tight embrace as the episode came to an end.
‘I thought, “I’m going to be walking a tightrope here”‘, Charlene said (Picture: ITV)
In a video released by the ITV1 show, the 42-year-old revealed that her first call would be to her partner Andy Woodfield, so she could check up on how her two kids have been in her absence.
Next up – her post-camp meal, which she promised would be ‘packed with carbs’.
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‘Bread and butter, toast, chips, something that’s massively carbtastic,’ Charlene said, while also expressing her excitement over drinking water ‘that doesn’t taste of smoke’, adding about the smoke-tasting water she’d been consuming in camp: ‘Who knew that could be a thing?’
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! returns tonight at 9pm on ITV.
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Charlene grilled the former health secretary as soon as he arrived.
