Richard Madeley has shared his unknown link to I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here star Sue Cleaver as she chatted to him on Good Morning Britain about her jungle exit. The Coronation Street actress became the third celebrity to be sent home from camp during Monday night's installment of the ITV reality show.
Sue, who is famed for playing Eileen Grimshaw in Corrie, followed Scarlette Douglas and Charlene White out of the jungle as the campmates are whittled down ahead of Sunday's big final. In her first interview since leaving the Australian camp, Sue told Richard and co-host Susanna Reid on Good Morning Britain that living in the jungle was a "hard slog".
"You are literally looking at the sun and trying to figure out what time of day it is and where the sun is in the sky," she said via video link from the Gold Coast, where she was also virtually reunited with good friend and GMB's entertainment reporter Richard Arnold.
"You’ve lost all track of time, you’re sleep deprived, you don’t know what time you’re going to bed, you don’t know what time you’re getting up so it’s very disorientating and I don’t think you realise that when you watch the show. I mean I’ve watched the show from the beginning, I’ve been the best armchair critic there could be but until you’re actually in there, it’s hard, it’s a really hard slog."
Former This Morning host Richard was soon asking Sue about the incredible story she shared about her adoption during her stint Down Under. During her time on the show, Sue told her fellow campmates how a chance encounter at a theatre led to a “lucky” reconciliation with her birth mother.
She had explained that when she was in her early twenties she was at drama school and the Royal Exchange in Manchester were looking for “tiny parts” for the theatre production of Oedipus. After walking in on the first day, an actor said: "Oh my god, she’s the absolute double of my wife when I met her," before asking Sue for her date of birth.
The soap star said he then asked where she was born before ringing his wife to say: "I’ve found her." Sue, who then discovered she had half-siblings, said that she had not planned on speaking to her campmates about her adoption. Richard posed the question to Sue as he revealed that her half-sister, Emma, is the godmother to his own children.
"I have been quite private, I have never spoken about that out of respect for everyone but I felt so comfortable in there with those people and (sisters) Emma and Kate, my brother and my mum said say whatever you feel, what you’re happy to feel, so I did," she said on GMB. "I think the one thing the world will realise about me is I don’t have a filter. You completely forget that the cameras are there."
In the jungle, Sue said her birth mother had her at the age of 16 or 17, before adding that she grew up in a very loving family and her mother and birth mother have been for dinner and have kept in touch. After hearing her story, former England footballer Jill Scott said: “Nah, that has just given me goosebumps. That is the most incredible story I think I’ve ever heard."
Meanwhile, Sue's exit did spark some complaints from viewers and not because she left, but because of something she said during her chat with the show's host Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly. After leaving the Australian jungle, Cleaver told the presenting duo: "Camp life, I’ve absolutely adored it.
"I’ve absolutely adored waking up in the jungle, that has been wonderful." But the 59-year-old added: "You can stuff your trials where the sun doesn’t shine quite frankly." And I'm A Celeb viewers were quick to flock to social media to point out the same thing.
@meehan_lucas tweeted: "Sue 'you can stuff your trials' Babe you didn’t even do ONE #ImACeleb." @Liamdestroyer39 asked: "Sue saying stuff your trials, how many did she do exactly…? #ImACeleb." @mahekdiaz posted: "'You can stuff your trials ' WHAT TRIALS AHAHAHAH U DIDNT DO ONE SUE LOVE #imaceleb."
@allyrharris wrote: "'You can stuff your trials' You didn't do any Sue??? #ImACeleb." @fifitheflow echoed: "'Stuff your trials' u didnt do any sue #ImACeleb." @oliviamill27 added: "They’ve STRUGGLED for highlights haven’t they for Sue. 'You can stuff your trials where the sun doesn’t shine' didn’t do any proper ones did you babes #ImACeleb."
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