I'm a Celeb's Jenny: 'It's my extreme diet plan'

I'm a Celeb's Jenny: 'It's my extreme diet plan'
I'm a Celeb's Jenny: 'It's my extreme diet plan'

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! newcomer Jenny Eclair has revealed she had joined the show to drop a dress size - as part of an 'extreme diet' plan. The comedian and writer reckoned she agreed to head to Australia in a bid to slip into smart frocks for Christmas. She and Dom Joly have become the latest stars to enter the jungle on the ITV1 show and will be seen joining the rest of the camp on Thursday night. Jenny said she wanted to come out looking like a supermodel. "It's an extreme diet plan. I'm actually incredibly selfish and spoilt and I'm very used to walking to my fridge and picking," she said. "The reason I've got to come here actually is to drop a dress size before Christmas. I'm going to lose so much weight in there, I'm going to come out looking like Elle Macpherson." Dom could cause sparks to fly in the bush because he admits he is confrontational - and hopeless in a team. The star - who found fame on stunt show Trigger Happy TV - said: "I am very confrontational. I wouldn't argue just for the laugh, but if someone p***ed me off, I would say it. I am a solo person. I am not really a team player." Before they joined the rest of the camp, Jenny and Dom had to try to spend three hours in a spooky shack for their debut challenge. The task became increasingly tough as they were given regular deliveries of jungle critters which were introduced to their temporary home. Each half hour they endured earned a meal for the camp.

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.