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Jasmine Allday

Paul Burrell leaves I'm A Celeb stars stunned as he details Buckingham Palace security flaw

Paul Burrell has revealed a huge security flaw at Buckingham Palace to his shocked I'm A Celebrity campmates.

The former royal butler has been opening up about his life in the palace, where he shared what things were like working with the Royal Family all the time. Tonight, he spoke about bringing dates back to Buckingham Palace.

His shocked campmates gathered around as he explained how he used to take his dates in via the side gate, and would regularly play a little game with his dates and not tell them just where he'd be taking them back to, always leaving them shocked.

Paul Burrell is back on I'm A Celebrity for its South Africa edition (ITV)

Speaking on tonight's episode of I'm A Celebrity, he revealed: "I lived in Buckingham Palace and then in Kensington Palace. In my day, we could take anybody back. Yeah, literally! There was no security on the side gate. I used to take dates back to the palace."

He added: "I’ll tell you what, the biggest card you could ever pull was to go into London and you find a date and you say to them, 'would you like to go back to my place?' And they say yes, and then you whisper to the taxi driver, 'Buckingham Palace'.

"You get there and get out and they say, 'I thought you were taking me home', and you say 'this is my home'."

A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace has been contacted by The Mirror.

He worked within the Royal Household since he was 18 (UK Press via Getty Images)

It comes only a couple of days after Paul detailed the lengths he went to in order to run a bath for the late Queen Elizabeth.

Fellow campmate supermodel Janice Dickinson asked him: "Did you have to like... Give the Queen a bath?"

"She did that herself. You have to set the towels out in a special way and royals never run their baths, they're run for them. So they never have to put the plug in," he shared with the stunned group.

Janice added in the Bush Telegraph: "Paul the butler from the royal house has the best stories on Earth. So I kind of ask him little questions here and there and he goes on and on and I'm like 'Ah, yes, yes!'"

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