Brian Conley quits I'm a Celeb for medical reasons

Brian Conley quits I'm a Celeb for medical reasons
Brian Conley quits I'm a Celeb for medical reasons

Brian Conley has quit I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! after falling ill. It comes days after viewers of the ITV1 show saw him break down in tears following a confrontation with David Haye when the boxer sparked a row by flicking two burning logs onto the forest floor. An ITV spokeswoman said: "Brian Conley has left the jungle due to medical reasons," but refused to go into more detail. There was better news for the newly-confident Helen Flanagan who faced her seventh bushtucker trial and won five out of a possible 12 stars by braving boxes of ants and blankets of cockroaches. David told the Bush Telegraph: "She's producing the goods now. Our baby Helen, she's a true trouper and we're quietly confident now that she's going to produce the goods." Another person seemingly getting used to jungle life was MP Nadine Dorries, who told her campmates: "This has been so amazing for me. I realised that I have laughed so much. I realised that the day I entered politics is the day I stopped laughing." But the good mood evaporated when dinner arrived and Hugo Taylor and Rosemary Shrager started to fall out over the cooking, and Hugo was left in tears after the chef branded him 'rude'.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.