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Mark Jefferies & Catherine Addison-Swan

I'm A Celebrity's Jill Scott prepared for jungle sleeping after years of sofa surfing

It looks like I'm A Celebrity star Jill Scott will have no problem getting to sleep in the jungle, as she revealed that she can "sleep anywhere" after years of sleeping on other people's sofas while travelling for football games.

The Sunderland AFC Ladies legend and retired Lioness said that she would ask her teammates if she could sleep on their sofas to save cash, in the days before she and fellow female footballers were paid to play. Jill regularly made the 170-mile journey from Sunderland to Everton after signing up to Everton Ladies in 2006, and would do all she could to keep costs down.

"When I first started there was a lot of travelling and we didn't get paid to play football, so a lot of the time you were covering your own expenses," Jill told The Mirror. The football star added that while she had to fork out so much of her own money for petrol that she "should have had shares" and spent many nights sleeping on sofas, she feels "so fortunate" to have gone through the experience because of the friends she made.

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