Irish Daily Mirror

SHOWER LEECHES SUCKED

Rebekah: I’m no camp bully Why Vanessa didn’t wash for 3 days

- BY MARK JEFFERIES Showbiz Editor in Australia

REBEKAH Vardy continues to protest her innocence over the alleged bullying of Iain Lee after leaving the jungle.

On 3e’s Camp Extra, the 35-year-old WAG said: “Last night he was one of the reasons I didn’t sleep – it really upset me to be portrayed as a bully. I’m not a bully.

“I had so many conversati­ons where I tried to pick him up. I practicall­y force-fed him when he didn’t want to eat. I didn’t have a problem with him, there was no issues, no divides in the camp.”

Evictee Vanessa White, 28, also insists there was no bullying. The singer said: “If I felt like there was any bullying I would have piped up.” JACK Maynard wants to return to the jungle to redeem himself.

The Youtube star was booted out after we told he sent inappropri­ate messages to a teenage fan.

On ITV’S Lorraine, the 23-year-old said he would jump at a second chance, adding: “It’s something I’d love to do again and prove myself.”

The trial argument did upset Toff JAMIE Lomas won six meals for camp as he crawled through tunnels filled with critters in Tutankha-doom — but the bigger confrontat­ion came before the trial.

Dennis Wise took the lead in the discussion over who should do the trial.

Iain said he was interested but Dennis jumped in and said: “You’ve said, ‘I’m a celebrity get me out of here’ twice so someone else should do it.” Hitting back, Iain argued he also got full stars on his Sky Rocket Trial. But

Dennis did not back down and things got heated, with Toff saying: “I hate arguing so much.”

In the end, Jamie was chosen and tensions between the pair simmered.

But Dennis later thought about what he had done and apologised to Iain, insisting that he should do the trial tomorrow. EVICTED Vanessa White has revealed the real reason for the lack of showers in the jungle this year – bloodsucki­ng leeches.

The Saturdays singer said a combinatio­n of bad weather and critters meant some campmates refused to wash for up to three days.

Bosses even had to step in and urge contestant­s to scrub themselves down or risk fungal diseases.

Vanessa, 28, told the Mirror: “The shower is not glamorous. It is freezing cold. And it is raining and there are leeches all over the floor and you just don’t want to get bitten.

MUD

“We were in the Bush Telegraph chatting and they said, ‘This isn’t aimed at you, we are saying this to everyone.. Bob [Mccarron, show medic] thinks it is hygienic for you to wash every day’.

“I don’t not wash back in London, I probably wash twice a day.

“But you go in there and everything changes. You don’t feel hot at all, there is mud everywhere. The thought of getting out of your clothes and being wet and then getting rained on and

maybe leeched on, is not appealing. So I did go three days without washing a lot of the time.”

An ITV source confirmed the campmates were reminded of the need to keep clean, saying: “It is for their own good to use the shower.”

Speaking at the plush Versace Hotel on Australia’s Gold Coast, Vanessa also revealed she was handed secret protein tablets Vanessa in shower and after jungle exit because she couldn’t eat the beans. “I’m allergic to beans so I was only having rice,” she said, recalling her first days in camp. “I did get more rice and a protein tablet but it’s not the same.” Even when campmates won food in trials, it did not help her diet that much. She explained: “I’m not really a meat eater so I found it really hard.

“What did I find the worst? We ate f***ing possum the other day. The tail was hanging out of the thing and I was dying, I was having a low-key breakdown at that point. I’d get really dizzy, walking was a problem. There was a couple of days when I was really quiet because I had no energy to do anything. “I just could not myself.”

Vanessa also admitted stealing food from production on the first day and sneaking in a lip balm down her sock.

She said: “I put it on be

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DEFENCE Rebekah Vardy speaks up ANGUISH
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CLEAN BREAK
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