Chef voted off jungle show

John Burton Race became the fourth contestant to be voted off 'I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here' last night.

Despite making a splash in today's Bushtucker Trial, the TV chef was last night chosen by the public to be sent home from Australia.

Earlier Welsh singer Cerys Matthews had a shock when she received a tender letter from ex-EastEnder Marc Bannerman, who was evicted from the show on Wednesday.

Bannerman constantly flirted with the former Catatonia star in the jungle - despite having a long-term girlfriend, actress Sarah Matravers.

In his letter to Matthews, he wrote: "There are many problems in London and I've had to go back to try and sort them out - but I may well return to greet you when you come out, if that is your wish. Marc."

Looking stunned after receiving it, the singer went off for a private heart-to-heart with Changing Rooms designer Anna Ryder Richardson.

She admitted: "I'm just numb."

Ryder Richardson told her: "You haven't done anything, apart from meet somebody you have a really big connection with.

"Cerys, if you were some big over-the-top bird who had sauntered in and flirted all over him and actively gone out to get him, maybe people would be saying horrible things.

"But you didn't, you haven't done anything wrong."

Matthews replied: "It just happened."

She later sent a message to Bannerman through the Bush Telegraph: "I'd love him to come out if that's what he thinks is a good idea, because he knows all the answers now.

But she added: "I don't want to make any more mess than I've maybe already made."

After being kicked out, Burton Race said his 14 days in the jungle were a "magical experience" despite the heat, hunger, leeches and personality clashes.

"It's been the most memorable time I've ever had in my life," he added.

He admitted he found PR guru Lynne Franks "completely objectionable" but said he also made some "very close" friends in the camp.

The chef said former model Janice Dickinson, who has wound up several of the other contestants, was "as mad as a March hare" but he "really liked her".

"She's a bonkers, mental, outspoken, loud, camera-hogging diva show-off, and a complete mental case," he said.

Burton Race and former boyband member Jason "J" Brown completed yesterday's "Dreadful Drop" Bushtucker Trial.

They were put in a closed box suspended over a creek and had to winch themselves along a rope using a hand crank.

When they guessed they were directly over one of three stars, they pressed a button to project themselves into the water.

The pair managed to hit the smallest star twice, winning six meals for the celebrities.