Nigel Farage has completed in third place in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! – as ex-Made In Chelsea star Sam Thompson was topped king of the jungle.
Mr Farage, the former UKIP and Brexit Party chief, 59, was reportedly paid as much as £1.5m for his look within the jungle.
The GB News presenter joked he was “now a remainer” when he made it to the ultimate alongside actuality TV character Thompson and former skilled boxer Tony Bellew, who was runner-up.
After presenters Ant and Dec delivered the information of his third place end, Mr Farage mentioned: “Thank you very much,” and informed his fellow finalists: “Well done boys.”
He mentioned he was “absolutely thrilled” to make it to the ultimate, admitting: “Not everyone likes the stuff I’ve campaigned for and stood for over the years.”
But Mr Farage added: “I’m a human being like anyone else and I hope this programme has shown I’m as human as anyone else.”
During his 23 days within the jungle, Mr Farage clashed with campmates Fred Sirieix, a star of actuality tv sequence First Dates, and YouTuber Nella Rose, over his political beliefs, and tucked right into a pizza topped with 4 totally different animal penises in his first bushtucker trial.
After he was confirmed as one in every of this 12 months’s contestants, he mentioned he would survive effectively as he’s “used to dealing with snakes and other horrible reptiles” – each within the European Parliament in Brussels and at Westminster.
He made his debut by sticking his head by the window of a campervan full of snakes and rummaging round in gunk.
Mr Farage was launched within the first episode saying: “I’m known for politics, for Brexit, and I’m a hero to some people and an absolute villain to millions.
“In the jungle you are going to discover the actual me. You may like me extra, you may dislike me extra, however you’ll not less than discover out.”
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In his final bushtucker trial, Mr Farage was locked in the “panic pit” – an underground metal box filled with snakes.
He joked: “Lots of individuals would love the snake to strangle me, I suppose, their dream may come true.”
Mr Farage has matched the third place end of former well being secretary Matt Hancock, whose controversial involvement in final 12 months’s present grew to become the second most complained-about TV occasion of final 12 months, in keeping with Ofcom.
Ex-Conservative MP and former tradition secretary Nadine Dorries took half within the 2012 present – however was the primary superstar to be voted out.
Other politicians who’ve entered the jungle embrace former Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik and former Scottish Labour Party chief Kezia Dugdale.
Source: information.sky.com”