Boxing champ overcomes his first-day nerves to bag meal tickets in latest bushtucker trial
AMIR Khan recovered his boxing champion reputation last night as he was once again chosen to take on the bushtucker trial.
The Olympian struggled in the series’s first challenge as he screamed the inevitable phrase to end the task before its completion.
Voted by the public to take on the trial last night – which saw him locked in a tank filling with water and having to open boxes with a spanner – Khan recovered from his earlier woes to win food for his five campmates who already had a meal ticket and also managed to bag one more.
After battling 200 crayfish, eels, yabbies, mud crabs and jungle critters, Khan told Ant and Dec: “I was so focused. I wouldn’t let me teammates down in camp. It was so hard in there honestly. I can go back and make my camp smile.” He added: “It was exciting, it was challenging. It was very hard but we’ve got five guaranteed meals and I’ve got one extra one for my team.
“It makes me very happy today. I’m proud of myself.”
After being congratulated by his teammates, Khan offered the meal ticket to Stanley Johnson, father of Boris, who said he “shall do my best to deserve the honour”.
The six meal ticket holders – Johnson, Shappi Khorsandi, Jennie McAlpine, Vanessa White, Georgia Toffolo and Becky Vardy – enjoyed dinner in Snake Rock while the remaining celebrities had rice and beans.
There was some sweet relief for those without meal tickets, however, after Johnson and Toffolo bagged some brownies for successfully completing the dingo dollar challenge.
Meanwhile, fans of the show are convinced Khan’s fear of snakes could be fake after a photo emerged of him smiling in a London club standing beside one.
He looked at ease as a woman dangled the beast right next to his face and put it round his neck.
It was in extreme contrast to his screams when he failed to complete a Bushtucker Trial after pulling out a snake.