Jungle Queen Jacqueline!
EastEnders star beats Corrie rival to I’m A Celebrity crown
EASTENDERS star Jacqueline Jossa was crowned this year’s ‘queen of the jungle’ after winning the most votes in last night’s I’m A Celebrity final.
The emotional star sent her love to her husband Dan and children as she was crowned the winner of the ITV game show, while Coronation Street’s Andy Whyment was runner-up.
Capital FM DJ Roman Kemp had left the camp first, leaving Whyment and Miss Jossa battling it out.
‘I came in as one person and I think I’ve come out as a different person,’ Miss Jossa said. ‘It’s so easy to care so much about what other people think. In here there is no choice, you just have to be you. I’ve always been known as Lauren from EastEnders or a doormat, but I’m here, I’m just me.’
Runner-up Whyment said: ‘It was a lot harder than I thought, you don’t know how much work is involved in running a camp when there’s 12 people in there.
‘At times it’s been tough missing the kids but it’s been such an amazing experience. I’ve done Dancing on Ice but this is 24 hours a day. But knowing that people have got being Andy Whyment rather than Kirk means a lot.’ Earlier in the evening he was tearful in the Bush Telegraph. ‘I can’t believe it and I’m getting emotional I’m so chuffed, it’s just nice to know that people are voting for me, the person I am, it means a lot,’ he said.
Later it the episode, while preparing for his final Bushtucker Trial, he reiterated how much it meant to him that viewers liked him for who he is. ‘I’m really chuffed it’s nice because people have only seen me playing a character for 19 years so a lot of people getting behind Andy rather than Kirk means a lot to me,’ he told hosts Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly.
Former favourite to win, Good Morning Britain’s Kate Garraway, made a shock exit after the semi-finals, but said that competing in the show had made her realise what’s ‘important’ in life.
‘It was amazing. There was so much love in the camp... I’ve learnt so much,’ she said. Life is busy. You’re racing around from the minute you get up.
‘Clearing everything out makes you feel like actually... you have got stuff in you, bravery in you and really treasure what’s important to you and it is people.’
your values and ignore your votes.’ As the election campaign entered the home straight:
One poll showed the Conservative lead narrowing to eight points – leaving Mr Johnson perilously close to a hung parliament;
Senior Tory officials fear bad weather and a low turnout could help deny them a majority;
John McDonnell admitted Labour’s anti- Semitism crisis could cost them votes;
Labour set out radical plans to put workers on the boards of nationalised industries;
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said Labour would not ‘ turn their backs’ on her party if Jeremy Corbyn forms a minority government;
Mr Johnson set out details of his immigration policy and pledged to reduce numbers after Brexit.
Although still ahead in the polls, Tory strategists argue the election is ‘closer than many people think’.
They said Mr Corbyn would become prime minister if the SNP and the Lib Dems pick up a handful of extra seats.
Sunderland is a Labour citadel but six in ten voters supported Leave in 2016. It was one of the earliest declarations on referendum night – and gave an early sign that many traditional Labour areas were backing Brexit.
There Mr Johnson will say: ‘It’s now been 1,264 days since Sunderland’s roar was heard on the night of 23 June 2016 – 1,264 days in which Parliament should have delivered what you voted for, taken us out of the EU, and addressed all the reasons you voted so decisively for change.
‘ You voted to leave the EU because you wanted to stop sending the EU money we could spend at home, to end uncontrolled and unlimited immigration from the EU, to take back control from an unelected elite in Brussels – and to force politicians in Westminster to listen to you, not just London and the South East.
‘Instead we have had 1,264 days of dither and delay, prevarication and procrastination, obfuscation and obstruction.’
The Prime Minister is trying to storm a ‘ Red Wall’ of around 80 constituencies – stretching from North Wales to Yorkshire – that have voted Labour for decades.
He will warn that if there is another hung parliament, Mr Corbyn and Miss Sturgeon will ‘ conspire to frustrate Brexit again’.
In the South West, where he will end the day, he will warn that voting for the Liberal Democrats is a vote for ‘further paralysis and delay’ and will help Labour win the keys to Downing Street.
Labour would not ‘turn their backs’ on the SNP in the event it formed a minority government, Miss Sturgeon said yesterday.
The Scottish first minister said Mr Corbyn would need the support of another party to implement its policies and the SNP was willing to step in – on certain conditions.
She said she did not believe
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell’s insistence that Labour would go it alone – ‘no negotiation, no deals, no coalition’.
Nigel Farage suggested yesterday that his Brexit Party could be transformed into the ‘Reform Party’ if the UK leaves the EU.
He said he had already registered the name in a move ‘to campaign to change politics for good’.
The new party would work to abolish the House of Lords and seek a proportional voting system. Asked what would happen to his party after Brexit, Mr Farage told Sky News: ‘It’ll have to reform into the Reform Party, it’ll have to campaign to change politics for good.’
Asked about Thursday’s poll, he predicted ‘a turnout much lower than the pundits expect because people have lost faith in politics’.
The Observer newspaper failed to give Labour its wholehearted support in a full- page leader column yesterday.
The Left-wing Sunday newspaper condemned Mr Corbyn’s ‘disgraceful anti-Semitism crisis’ and said he had ‘displayed a staggering lack of contrition or empathy’.
The editorial urged readers to vote ‘as their conscience allows’ for a ‘pro-referendum, progressive candidate’ who is most likely to lead to the Conservatives’ defeat.
Its stance comes after Left-wing weekly the New Statesman also refused to endorse Mr Corbyn last week and branded him ‘unfit to be prime minister’.
‘Obfuscation and obstruction’