Helen Flanagan leaves I'm A Celebrity jungle

Helen Flanagan leaves I'm A Celebrity jungle
Helen Flanagan leaves I'm A Celebrity jungle (Image credit: PA)

Helen Flanagan has been booted out of the jungle after receiving the fewest number of votes on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! The former Coronation Street star, known on this series for failing a series of bushtucker trials, looked shocked when she was named as the latest celebrity to leave the camp, saying: "Oh my God." When quizzed by hosts Ant and Dec about her consecutive failures, Helen laughed off any notion of a "game plan". "Oh my God, I completely wish, because honestly, ever since I've been here I've just been absolutely cringing about how bad I'm going to look in these trials, thinking this is so humiliating - I will never be able to live this down," she said. Before she was shown footage of her time on the show, the pin-up joked that she did not want to watch herself back. "Can I have a pillow to cringe?" she asked. Despite failing to succeed in the trials, Helen said she was still "proud" of how she coped. She said: "When I first came into the show I was thinking 'Yeah, I'm really strong-minded, I'll be able to do all the trials and things'. "I didn't think they were going to be as hard." She added: "Even though some of the trials were quite bad, I'm proud of myself because I feel like I did my best."

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.