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Nathan Bevan

Charlene White is the first contestant to be voted off I'm A Celebrity after quitting Bushtucker Trial

Charlene White is the first contestant to be booted off I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! The journalist and broadcaster received the most votes to leave the Aussie jungle on the long-running ITV series, which returned Down Under for 2002 after spending two years based in Wales thanks to Covid travel restrictions.

Her departure came after she bowed out of tonight's Bushtucker Trial early by yelling out the name of the show. The 42-year-old Londoner admitted to having "panicked" during the Watery Grave challenge alongside '80s pop icon Boy George, causing her to throw in the towel.

Describing the task as "my worst nightmare," the news presenter needed to climb down inside a series of half flooded underground tombs and work with the Culture Club singer to release 11 stars. Host Ant McPartlin explained, "The person in the first tomb will move a magnet to move the stars around the maze and through to the second tomb.

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