Sports stars most shocking moments on I’m A Celebrity, from Haye flashing his bum to Whitbread’s cockroach incident
FAMOUS sports stars are gearing up for another series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here.
This year, Frankie Dettori and Tony Bellew will by vying to be crowned winner of the ITV reality TV show.
Previous winners include Phil Tufnell, Carl Fogarty, Harry Redknapp and Jill Scott.
But, despite boasting only four winners from the programme’s 23 seasons sports’ famous faces have provided plenty of shocking moments.
Here’s just some that may have stunned viewers at home, starting with backsides!
Bum note
You could say sportsman are used to communal showers, after all they share dressing rooms with their team-mates.
But, as is customary with the shower scene in the jungle – you tend to wear your shorts or in the case of some glam contestants a flattering bikini.
Ex-footballer turned Towie star Mark Wright stripped naked in front of glam Emily Scott, baring his bottom in 2011.
He even had time to joke that the cold shower turned his willy into a “mealworm”.
In 2014, footballer turned presenter Jimmy Bullard provided plenty of laughs.
He also flashed his bum to viewers when it was his turn to freshen up.
While boxing legend David Haye turned up the heat for female viewers, who were impressed when he stripped down to show off his impressive physique and derriere.
Invasive bugs
There are always plenty of Bushtucker Trials that involve the tiniest and most awful bugs.
And every now and again, the stars have to get up close and personal with some of their fears, from rats to cockroaches.
It’s the latter that seem to be the most invasive, although for Harry Redknapp he wasn’t into cricket that year.
Fatima Whitbread, in the 2011 series, had to have a cockroach flushed out of her nose after one decided to crawl up there.
Presenters Ant and Dec were suitably grossed out by the ordeal, which the Olympic athlete revealed further down the line she had the cockroach preserved.
Redknapp had to lie in a chamber in his challenge, whilst bugs piled in around him.
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Two minutes in, he shouted: “It’s gone in my bloody ear!”
He was talking about a cricket, that had to be fished out by on set medic Bob with a pair of tweezers once the trial was done.
Then, last season’s victor Jill Scott also had earache – it was a cockroach that was the offender once more.
Bob came to the rescue once more, with Ant exclaiming once it was extracted: “Jill, that was bigger than the one Fatima Whitbread had up her nose!”
Bash the Fash
John Fashanu finished runner-up to Tuffers in the second series in 2003.
As a player for Wimbledon’s Crazy Gang he was fearless and as tough as it gets with his imposing 6ft plus frame. Just ask any centre half of the 90s.
But, rather surprisingly, the former Gladiators presenter was a scaredy cat when it came to I’m A Celebrity.
That might have been why the public voted him to take part in nearly every single trial.
One particular challenge tested his fear of heights, something we would never have known about because of his aerial dominance on the pitch with Wimbledon’s famed long-ball game.
The task saw him tread carefully across a wobbly jungle walkway.
Another placed Fash in a nest of vipers, where he tackled his phobia of snakes admirably.
He certainly won everyone over back home with his stint.
Rows and sexist views
Man City legend Rodney Marsh faced a barrage of criticism when he entered the jungle in 2013.
The surprise was that four others were voted out before him, given the public’s opinion.
Even though he was whisked away from the jungle and rushed to hospital for treatment on an injured leg, he still couldn’t garner any sympathy on his return to camp.
Lynne Franks was the bane of his life, and they had some blistering rows.
While his other female campmates couldn’t take to his sexist jokes and sentiments.
But now we know he won’t fly in a plane unless it was piloted by a man.
And he feels women make a meal of child birth.
Strawberrygate
Boxer Amir Khan and presenter Ian Lee stunned viewers when they kept their Dingo Dollar prize of strawberries and cream to themselves in 2017.
The camp had unknowingly answered a question correctly to win a food-related item from Kiosk Keith, after the devious pair were chosen to take part in a Dingo Dollar challenge.
However, instead of taking their prize back to their campmates Khan and Lee carefully unwrapped their meal treat.
Khan planted the seed, asking the question what would happen if the two ate the strawberries and cream without their fellow contestants knowing.
After much deliberation, they scoffed the lot and returned to camp saying they had got the question wrong.
A guilt-ridden Lee later confessed what had happened, making the two pantomime villains for the rest of the series.