Flirting intensifies for jungle dwellers

I’m A Celebrity romeo Marc Bannerman has fallen in love with singer Cerys Matthews, according to fellow jungle dwellers.

Their flirting is the talk of the camp.

Janice Dickinson told the Bush Telegraph: “There’s a set crush going on between Cerys and Marc, like you read about. He follows her everywhere. I think he’s fallen in love with Cerys.”

She added: “Cerys is a nymph. She’s a fairy. Cerys is luminous – everything about her is just absolutely angelic.”

The lovestruck pair lay across each other in a hammock as they sang “Lola” together.

Ex-EastEnder Bannerman told Matthews: “You’re so cheeky. You’ve just got a really cheeky face.”

Later they lay down next to each other and Bannerman said: “Oh, there’s so much to say, isn’t there?”

“About trees?” asked Matthews.

“Just about life really, just about everything,” Bannerman replied.

They ended the night whispering to one another before Bannerman planted two kisses on her cheek and told her: “See you in the morning. Goodnight.”

His behaviour is unlikely to impress his girlfriend, actress Sarah Matravers, who has flown out to Australia ready to confront him when he leaves the jungle.

The group had five meals between them thanks to PR guru Lynne Franks, who underwent the Tunnel of Terror Bushtucker Trial.

She crawled through a stinking sewer where she had to put her hand in a series of pipes, which contained nasty surprises such as spiders, eels, scorpions and rats.

Franks confessed to fears of “wriggly, wiggly, horrible things – stuff in my nose, in my mouth, up my bum and God knows where else”.

Afterwards she explained that “higher powers” had got her through the challenge.

“I meditated before I went in there, and I did call upon the powers to be my own higher self, whatever guides I’ve got, whoever’s out there to help me through it and my own inner strength,” she told the others.

She then began to sob as she explained: “The biggest thing for me – and I’ve had a bit of a tear about it in the woods – is that I found who I am and I can face my fears, so I can go there.”

Grumpy ex-footballer Rodney Marsh has rapidly become the most unpopular person in the camp.

Anna Ryder Richardson confessed to the Bush Telegraph: “Rodney is just not happy and you just have to be careful because at any moment it could come your way.

“We’re disappointed with Rodney, definitely. He’s a very odd guy. I’m staying back from Rodney. I just don’t want to get in the firing line, basically, because it’s quite a fire.”

Later, in the live section of the show, Dickinson and former boyband member Jason ’J’ Brown were chosen by the public for the next Bushtucker Trial.

J, wearing tree branches tied to his head as mock antlers, seemed pleased to have been chosen, but Dickinson was horrified.

She gasped, and wailed “oh man” repeatedly, much to the amusement of Ant and Dec, the show’s presenters.