David Haye misses out on I'm A Celebrity final

David Haye misses out on I'm A Celebrity final
David Haye misses out on I'm A Celebrity final

David Haye has missed out on a place in the I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here final after he was eliminated from the jungle on Friday night. The departure of the boxer - who had been tipped as a possible winner of the show - set up an all-female final, with either Ashley Roberts or Charlie Brooks set to be crowned Queen of the Jungle on Saturday. However when quizzed by Ant and Dec he refused to say which of the pair he would like to be named champion. "I want them both to win," he said. "I want it to be either of them. In my eyes they are both winners. Ashley is a real go-getter, genuine, fun bubbly chick. And Charlie is super positive, always looks on the bright side. David also admitted he had found jungle life a challenge, saying: "It was a lot more mentally tough than I thought." "Physically I am okay with things, doing trials and stuff. That is okay. It was just being out of your comfort zone, having cameras on you the whole time. Being around people I didn't know." And he also said that dealing with the rations and weight loss had not been easy either. "It was the lack of food, feeling hungry constantly. You feel yourself getting smaller and smaller, skinnier and skinnier," David confessed. "But that is part of the game and part of the show. I knew what I was getting in for when I signed up." Saturday's final will begin at 9.30pm on ITV1, straight after the semi-final of The X Factor.

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.