Katie confronts fear of water to return to jungle

Katie confronts fear of water to return to jungle
Katie confronts fear of water to return to jungle (Image credit: Ken McKay/ITV)

Katie Price overcame her fear of water in an I'm A Celebrity... challenge to swim through a stinking swamp and earn her place in the camp and treats for her new friends. Katie made her way through the pool crammed with fish guts and cockroaches, in a bid to unclip 12 balls under water and throw them into a basket. The glamour star managed to win seven gifts for the camp, one for each ball she retrieved. She told the ITV1 show: "I knew there was no way they were going to let me just walk into camp. I just knew there was going to be some kind of challenge... "I'm not really any good with water and I can't tell you how much it stinks." She was told she could pick treats including coffee, tea and chocolate, but in order to take in the treats Katie was told the camp's luxury items must be sacrificed. She decided: "I'm going to take in the gifts, they're going to like that, but I don't think they're going to love the fact they're going to have to give up their luxury items." The reality TV star, wearing a skimpy black and tiger print swimsuit, was greeted with kisses from the celebrities. She told them: "It's so weird to be back here. I thought if there were no beds I'd sleep on the floor. I don't care."

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.