I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here Queen of the Jungle Jill Scott has said she plans to head back to return to work at her coffee shop next week.
Fresh off the back of her ITV reality show and with new business and TV deals in the offing, the down-to-earth Lioness plans to return to the Manchester shop with her fiancé Shelly Unitt once they fly home.
The 35-year-old beat Hollyoaks actor Owen Warner and former health secretary Matt Hancock to be crowned Queen of the Jungle on Sunday evening.
Jill, who helped the Lionesses to win the Euros this summer, also said in her first in-depth interview since leaving the jungle that I'm A Celebrity was a team game like football and the whole celebrity squad were all winners.
She said: “I am in disbelief. It has been the most incredible journey and one I’m most grateful for.
“I just want a margarita pizza, to have some drinks and relax, I don’t want loads of alcohol, I'm not a big drinker.
“I had a coffee, Tim Tams and now I have got my tea. As long as I can have two red wines with the campmates and catch up with them properly and catch up with Shelly I will be happy.”
She continued: “I don’t want to say something cheesy but you’re in there as a team and it’s not like you’re competing against each other so I thought the team was a winner. At times, I just felt like I was camping with my friends and that was probably the best part about it really.
“I know I have been given the crown but for me the whole team were winners. Without Charlene, Scarlette, Sue making the food, without Seann and Baba making us laugh, Boy George waking us up with his singing. If I had been in there on my own I wouldn’t have survived.”
Rather than take lots of time off to revel in her success, Jill plans to be back serving up hot drinks next week at her shop.
She said: “I'll definitely be going back in Boxx 2 Boxx. As soon as the Euros were over I went in because I like to thank them for the support.
“Shelly has been saying they’ve done hoodies and they’ve been buying them and we’ve given money to charity and they have wanted hot banana water.
“We have customers that have been so loyal to us and have kept the shop going running, especially through Covid so 100 per cent. Just like the Euros, I’m not going to change who I am. So it will be about getting round there and thanking everyone really.”
Jill triumphed thanks to her bravery in trials, her caring side with fellow campmates and her acerbic one liners throughout the three week stint.
