Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Captain Tom aches for old folk left alone
CAPTAIN Sir Tom Moore has said seeing his late wife’s loneliness as she was treated in hospital struck him “right to the heart”.
Pamela , th e Second Wo r l d Wa r v e t e ra n’s spouse of more than 50 years, died in 2006 after developing dementia.
The centenarian, who raised more than £32 million for the NHS doing laps of his Bedfordshire garden, said seeing elderly patients without visitors had affected him deeply.
He told The Big Issue: “My wife was in hospital for several years. One day she said ‘If you didn’t come and see me, I would be very lonely’. That struck me right to the heart.
“There were loads there who never, ever had visitors, day after day, year after year. They must have been very, very lonely.”
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IT’S payback time for Bushtucker Trial tormentors Ant and Dec in a 20th anniversary I’m A Celebrity special.
The stomach-churning scenes were filmed after joker Joel Dommett challenged the hosts on set last year.
Both reluctantly agreed to take part in three trials, with Dec saying: “Oh my days, what are we doing?”
On arrival, Dec said: “I’m paralysed with fear.” Ant joked: “I feel this is payback. They’re just going to throw everything at us.”
The first trial was Catch A Falling Star. Dec laughed as Ant’s star fell on him in a mix of smelly green slime – but Ant reminded him: “This’ll be so much better when I watch you do it.”
The next trial was Face Your Fears, in which giant spiders were poured into a clear helmet Dec was wearing.
Ant had to face his fear of snakes, with six large ones in his helmet.
Finally came a dreaded eating trial, with a witchetty grub, vomit fruit and a fish eye for Ant and a fermented duck egg, blended cockroach and pig penis for Dec.
The 20th edition of the show starts in a few weeks with stars including Vernon Kay and Mo Farah.
I’m A Celebrity... A Jungle Story is on ITV on Sunday at 8.10pm.
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