I'm A Celeb star shares horrifying shower conditions she braved for airtime

19 November 2023 , 13:51

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I'm A Celeb star shares horrifying shower conditions she braved for airtime

Nicola McLean has revealed some I'm A Celebrity stars 'barely washed for days' during their jungle stint due to the horrifying shower situation in camp.

The former glamour model, 41, explains how she could have easily skipped showers for the same reasons as her campmates but knew bosses had signed her up for the ITV show for a reason. Nicola appeared on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! alongside stars like Timmy Mallett and Blue singer Simon Webbe in 2008, the year former EastEnders actor Joe Swash was crowned King of the Jungle.

The mum-of-two had originally applied to head Down Under the year before, before bosses opted to send Hearsay' singer Mylenne Klass into the jungle instead. Nicola lets slip some behind-the-scenes secrets from her own experience on the ITV reality TV show. "Honestly, a lot of the other people in camp barely washed for days, and I get it, and I could have easily done that because of how freezing it was," Nicola explains.

"But I was in there for a reason and I wanted to get the air time so I sucked it up and got right in there," the star adds when speaking with the Daily Star. Nicola provided some iconic I'm A Celebrity moments thanks to her steamy outdoor shower scenes which saw her slip into an array of tiny bikinis during the 2008 series.

The former Page 3 girl, who has had multiple boob jobs over the years, has previously admitted her ample assets are the reasons ITV bosses added her to the I'm A Celebrity line-up almost 15 years ago. "I love my boobs and they've served me well. I don't think I'd have been chosen for I'm A Celebrity in 2008 without them," Nicola confessed to the Mirror earlier this year.

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