You’re sitting pretty, Richard

SO, our very own Richard Madeley has had to leave the jungle. The I’m A Celebrity contestant was rushed to hospital after a trial that involved him messing about in rotting fish guts and vegetables.

Now, because he’s broken the camp’s Covid bubble, he can’t go back. Richard says he’s gutted.

I say he’s the luckiest man alive. He still gets his full fee, rumoured to be around £200,000, and can now watch the rest of his freezing campmates from the comfort of a nice warm sofa with Judy. It’s a win-win.

And far from losing out on lucrative work that I’m A Celeb stars often get, I suspect Richard might land a hair or shampoo ad. While everyone else’s barnet looks wild and windswept, his shiny blond locks looked gorgeous.

EARL Spencer’s wife Karen, a Canadian, says it wasn’t love at first sight when she met him and she didn’t really know much about him. Had she been living down a manhole for 20 years? The woman, who clearly should have gone to Specsavers, says: “Obviously, he’s very handsome and interesting. But when I met him I was a jaded 38-year-old.”

I’m presuming she became less jaded the minute she realised he was an Earl and marriage would mean a title, life in a stunning stately home and an automatic entrée into the aristocracy.

Do women like Karen really think people believe all this “I had no idea who he was” stuff?

Charles Spencer is a chinless, aristo who always comes across as snotty, entitled and dull. No way could he have married three beautiful women had he not come with 550 acres and what amounts to a castle.