The Ender I'm A Celeb for Lucy!

The Ender I'm A Celeb for Lucy!
The Ender I'm A Celeb for Lucy! (Image credit: Ken McKay/ITV)

Former EastEnders star Lucy Benjamin became the first famous face to be booted off I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! on Monday night. The actress lost out to former glamour girl Sam Fox and Gino D'Acampo in the public vote. As hosts Ant and Dec announced the result, Lucy said: "I told you. It has been a pleasure." Lucy admitted she had 'mixed emotions' about leaving the jungle after just 10 days. "It is not great to be the first one out but I got to get to see my bubba and Rich (her husband Richard Taggart). Someone had to go first. It's fine." Lucy, 39, told hosts Ant and Dec that a highlight had been her skydive into the camp but admitted that her moment came when the camp was divided and her team were sent to the live in Exile. "We ate rat," she said. "That's really bad isn't it?" The 39-year-old had suffered home sickness after being separated from her husband and two-year-old daughter Bessie. After being interviewed by Ant and Dec following her elimination, she ran across the rope bridge looking for her husband.

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.