In the penultimate episode of this year’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, the remaining four contestants shared a collective realisation.
As presenters Ant and Dec informed them that GK Barry and Alan Halsall were out of the contest in a double elimination, the final four were left to reflect on their time on the hit ITV reality show.
Sat around the campfire, the quartet discussed some of their formative experiences, from school to dating, as they celebrated their success in the Celebrity Cyclone challenge.
Coleen Rooney revealed that her football star husband, Wayne Rooney, was the first “serious” boyfriend she took home to meet her parents.
As their conversation was interrupted, McFly star Danny Jones realised that it was their last dinner together: “So this is our last hurrah, I suppose,” he remarked.
“We’ve done [the Cyclone challenge], we’ve had some ice cream, we’ve had a great day today. Finishing it off with a great meal tonight would just be the cherry on top.”
Cheering, Oti Mabuse said: “Top four! Yay.”
Speaking to the Bush Telegraph, Richard Coles said: “The end is in sight now, we’re all imagining life beyond the jungle and that makes us I think more anxious I think to value the time we’ve had together.”
Back around the campfire, the group shared their feelings about their time together: “I’ve had a great time, I’ve loved it. And even the tough stuff, looking back, I know I’ll have loved the whole thing,” Coles said.
“These last few days have made it for me to say I actually have really enjoyed it,” Rooney said.
“It’s just been more fun, hasn’t it? As we’ve gone on,” Jones added.
Mabuse felt that they’d managed to get to know one another better “as a smaller group”.
“And when we’re very old, and me exceptionally old, we’ll remember it,” Coles said. “We’ll bump into each other as Coleen picks up her peerage, Lady Rooney, Danny’s there to get his knighthood and Oti Mabuse is there to sit on the throne! I’ll turn up with my sandwiches and go ‘I used to know them!’”
To the Bush Telegraph, he added: “I know that whoever I bump into, any of these people, ever again, wherever it is, I will smell wood smoke and I will hear crickets and we’ll look at each other and we’ll just know that we’ve shared this experience, and it’s been a very special one and unique to us and that I think is, I mean the best of it, actually.”
The final episode of I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! airs on ITV1 and ITVX on Sunday 8 December at 9pm.
