Don’t let them see you in the jungle shower, Mummy!
Daughter’s advice to I’m A Celeb Susannah
CHILDREN can sometimes be the harshest critics – and it seems that Susannah Constantine’s are no exception.
The 53-year-old TV presenter, who says she ‘lives to eat’, arrived in Australia to appear on I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! yesterday and revealed the scathing parting advice from her three children.
Her 12-year-old daughter Cece told her: ‘When you’re having a shower, try and do it where people can’t see you, so they don’t realise you’re a fat hippo.’
Her other daughter Esme, 14, said: ‘Mum, I don’t know how you are going to cope without food’, while son Joe, 16, was more diplomatic with: ‘Have a good time and make the most of it.’
The jungle shower scenes – often featuring the younger female contestants such as Myleene Klass in their swimwear – have long been a key moment in I’m A Celebrity, but it seems Miss Constantine will seek to cut a more demure figure.
She said that Trinny Woodall, 51, her co-star on fashion advice show What Not To Wear, had also told to steer clear of showering in public.
Miss Constantine said: ‘She was giving me advice like, “Remember not to have a shower in the middle of the day when the sun is on your body and we can all see your cellulite. Make sure you do it in the evening”. She gave me all these tips that I would never even think about.
‘She is 100 per cent behind me and I wish she could come out to greet me, but unfortunately she is not able to. It is going to be weird not having her at my side.’
Despite the less than flattering words from her daughters, the jungle shower holds no fears for Miss Constantine, who is married to Danish businessman Sten Bertelsen. She said: ‘It doesn’t bother me at all, I’ve got to get clean.’
What does worry her, however, is the jungle diet of rice and beans, which can sometimes provide as little as 500 calories a day.
She said: ‘Diet? You can’t even call it a diet. We don’t get any food in there. I live to eat, I don’t eat to live, and that is something I have to get my head around.’
While some stars enter the jungle in the hope of losing weight – Spandau Ballet singer Tony Hadley says he hopes to slim down this year – Miss Constantine has no such desires. She said: ‘I am not here to lose weight, but if it is a biproduct of the experience then that is always a bonus.’