Tory MP Nadine first evicted from I'm a Celebrity

Tory MP Nadine first evicted from I'm a Celebrity
Tory MP Nadine first evicted from I'm a Celebrity

Tory MP Nadine Dorries became the first person to be evicted from I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! after 12 days in the jungle. Nadine, who was suspended from the party for going on the ITV show, was voted out by the public and was hugged by fellow camp members Learning of her eviction, she told hosts Ant and Dec she had had a 'fascinating experience'. She said: "I actually came here self-important for a few days, but I'm not now." When asked by presenters Ant and Dec if she felt she had achieved her aim in raising awareness of issues, Nadine said: "I don't know what people have seen, but I have had some fascinating conversations in there. It's been a fascinating experience." She predicted David Haye would win with Helen Flanagan and Eric Bristow in the final three, and said she had guessed she would be the first to leave. She said: "I'm not disappointed at being the first, especially when you're starving. I kind of expected it actually. I don't think the public actually understand how hard and how difficult it is down there. The effect it has on your body when you're down there with three teaspoons of rice a day is hard, hard, hard." She was suspended as a Tory MP after flying to the jungle without getting permission from David Cameron or informing senior party leaders. Before going on I'm a Celebrity, she said: 'It can't be that hard', and then went on to fail three challenges. Asked if she regretted those words, she replied: "There's like this massive adrenaline rush and your brain's screaming 'No!' and you have to overcome it, but sometimes I can't." On eating lamb's testicle and ostrich anus, she said: "I would never have thought I would eat any of those things in a million years."

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.