She is an I’m A Celebrity! legend, calling her time in the jungle one of the best experiences she’s ever had.
And now, Sam Fox – who was part of the 2009 cohort with the likes of winner Gino D’Acampo, Katie Price and Kim Woodburn – tells Closer what she thinks of this year’s campmates.
“I really love Sam [Thompson]’s energy,” the former glamour model says. “But Nella [Rose] has driven me mad from the beginning. She’s definitely playing a game and she’s got to get out as she’s not a team player. She wants to blow everything out of proportion and just start an argument.”
She adds, “I think Nigel [Farage] definitely knows what he’s doing, and he’s gone in there with a game plan. Obviously, he [got his bottom out] on purpose. He’s probably thinking of Myleene Klass back in the day, ‘Oh I might get a Marks & Spencer underwear advert out of this.’”
Sam, 57, lasted just over a fortnight in the jungle 14 years ago. The first trial saw her put a huge water spider in
her mouth – after swimming in shark-infested waters – and she famously said in her exit interview that she wished she’d done more challenges.
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And now, she reveals the gruelling preparation she undertook before going Down Under.
“I remember going on holiday to Greece and trying eyeballs. Then I went to boot camp to fight my fears of heights. I got really fit – I did lots of mountain climbing, base jumping and canoeing down rafts. You never know what you’re going to get in there,” Sam says.
2022 was a big year for the former Page 3 model and singer, as she tied the knot to her tour manager Linda Birgitte Olsen, seven years after her first wife Myra Stratton tragically died from cancer.
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She says of her marriage to Linda, “We’re still in our honeymoon period – we have been ever since we met.
“We both think this feeling is going to last forever, and I can just see such a happy ending to my life now. I’ve never been so much in love before.”
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