Esther survives coffin task to win immunity

ESTHER RANTZEN won immunity from the I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! public vote in the final Bush Battle — by telling fairytales to creepy crawlies while lying in an underground coffin.

Rantzen beat off competition from Martina Navratilova, Nicola McLean and Brian Paddick.

Faces fell when they were told to spend the night in underground coffins and the celebrity to last the longest would be exempt from the public vote. As they were locked into their beds, McLean called: “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here” within seconds.

Rangers poured cockroaches into the coffins — and Rantzen told the critters fairytales and started reciting Cinderella.

This put off Paddick, who said he was trying to visualise himself in Ibiza — without Rantzen.

Navratilova soon decided she’d had enough and with just Paddick remaining as her competition, Rantzen told off the cockroaches for crawling in her bra. Paddick was next to quit, leaving Rantzen victorious.

As the last full day as a group of 12, emotions started running high.

Robert Kilroy-Silk said Navratilova is a “cultured renaissance woman”.

McLean broke down as she confessed that Kilroy-Silk and Paddick are the two people she will miss.

She said to Kilroy-Silk: “I never thought I’d get on with you at all and you have just, honestly you’ve been like a father figure to me.”