Following I’m A Celebrity’s first ever All Stars series crowning its first ever jungle legend, campmate Paul Burrell has dished all about his second stint on ITV’s much-loved reality series. In an exclusive interview with Slingo, Paul opens up on his ‘liberating’ experience in camp second time round, as he reveals how he no longer had to ‘hide’ his true self from viewers and his celebrity campmates.
The former Royal butler reflects on the toll the show’s famous trials took on his body this time round and how he fell into the role of playing camp comedian - and he also said there is one person who would have ,ade him walk out of camp.
Paul said: “I loved it. I loved doing it a second time around with that cast of people because they’ve done it before, they knew the ropes and they knew how to behave, generally. They knew the process of making the show and I loved it. I loved the people in it, I really did. For me, going into it 19 years later to do it again as a different person, I felt, was very liberating. My world had changed and this is what I mean with the monarchy too, it’s changing. Charles has changed, Camilla has changed, everybody has changed, nothing stays the same. So for me, I didn’t stay the same. I was now married to a man instead of being married to my wife, and yet I’ve evolved and moved on and become myself. When I did it 19 years ago I couldn’t be myself because I was too busy looking over my shoulder, whether somebody was going to say something bad or if there was going to be some story in the press, I had to hide then. This time around I actually didn’t even think. I thought nobody’s watching, nobody’s listening. I’m just going to have a bit of fun and what you saw was me having fun.
