Survivor Christine reveals health worry

Jungle survivor Christine Hamilton disclosed she was awaiting checks for a health scare as she arrived back in the UK today.

The I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! contestant said she still had not got been given the “all clear”.

The renowned battleaxe who showed her softer side during the jungle stint told viewers of ITV1’s This Morning: “I think I’ll be OK.”

The wife of former Tory MP Neil was talking to viewers, with one caller explaining how she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

Christine told her: “I have sympathy with you because I’ve had scares in that direction, shall we say, and haven’t got the all clear yet.”

Pressed further by interviewer Fern Britton, she said: “I’ve got a hospital appointment waiting for me shortly, but I think I’ll be OK.”

“That’s all I want to say at this point,” she added.

Earlier in the day as she landed at Heathrow, Christine declared she could have “murdered” her fellow contestants.

“I have heard myself described as a national treasure, which was very nice,” she said as she arrived back from Australia with Neil and comic Rhona Cameron.

“None of my friends and family would have been surprised to see me acting like that, but I’m sure the public, who only know me from what they read in the press, probably were.”

She added: “They might also have been surprised to have seen me cleaning out the loo in the camp with such gusto.

“Well, I don’t know who the great British public think cleans out the loo in the Hamilton household, but I can tell you, it’s not Neil.”

She was still sporting the black-eye she sustained during one of the daily “bushtucker trials” on the ITV1 show.

“It really was the chance of a lifetime. I absolutely loved it,” she said.

“Obviously there was the odd moment when I could happily have murdered my campmates. One time, I think we had been there about three days, when all hell broke loose between the camp and I thought ‘How will I survive this?’

“But the days went by very quickly after that. I can’t believe it’s over. It was an incredible privilege to take part.”

Mr Hamilton joked that he had not really missed his wife while she was on the show.

“I didn’t feel I had lost her, really, because I was able to watch her on TV. The only difference was that this time she couldn’t answer back.”