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Myleene Klass has donated her £100,000 I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! prize money to charity.
The 45-year-old TV and radio presenter was crowned the first ever Legend of the ITV show last week.
Now the former Hear’Say star – who credits I’m A Celeb with boosting her career following her infamous white bikini moment – has revealed she is giving the money to a charity close to her heart.
In a post on Instagram Myleene shared her chosen charity is Save the Children, of which she has been an ambassador for 11 years.
Posting a video of work she has done with the charity, the mum-of-three told her 425,000 followers: “I am proud to donate my @imacelebrity prize money of £100,000 to @savechildrenuk.”
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Myleene was crowned winner of this year's I'm A Celeb All Stars (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Recreating her iconic white bikini moment 17 years after she first appeared on the show (ITV)She continued: “I’ve been an ambassador for 11 years in which time I’ve travelled the globe helping STC. The things I’ve seen will stay with me forever.
“Children in the Philippines playing by the ships that have run aground from the Tsunami so they can be next to their parents that lay crushed between them.
“Dancing children in refugee camps in Jordan as their parents weave me a chopping board from plastic bags to say thank you for being there (I still have it).
“Teaching rescued child brides in Tanzania the Solfa, Astronomy and Science as they study through the day, striving to become engineers and doctors to help their communities and at night, iron clothes and raise their own babies.
“Trying to share out food in Bangladesh to families as they make one small meal of broth and a bean stalk last 24 hours.”
Myleene has been an ambassador for Save the Children for 11 years (Instagram.com)
She is donating her £100k I'm A Celeb prize money to the charity (Instagram)Myleene recalled holding a mum in Nepal whose baby had died from pneumonia as she couldn’t afford to pay the £4 hospital bill.
She also met a doctor in the Democratic Republic of Congo who delivers babies daily using one piece of thread he uses to cut the umbilical cord.
“I have visited so many countries, met so many people, but the message I take back each and every time is that we are all the same,” she said.
“We all just want the best for our children and due to luck and circumstance of birth, it’s not always something a child gets.”
Myleene ate mouse tails and braved snakes in this year's series (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)Myleene revealed her daughters Ava, 15, and 12-year-old Hero have helped her pack care parcels for the children she visits.
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She shared: “My girls have always helped me pack balloons, sweets, stickers and nail polish for the children I go to. They themselves are now mini ambassadors.”
In her latest stint in I’m A Celeb, Myleene’s Bushtucker Trials included having snakes climb around her head.
The star also agreed to eat 60 mice tails and 40 teaspoons of fermented tofu on the show.
Ending her Instagram post, she said: “I’ve seen for myself, this money will go far. The mouse tails and rotten tofu were worth it.”