Ecstatic I'm A Celeb star Myleene Klass dedicates win to kids who 'begged' her to do show
12.05.2023 - 23:17
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I’m A Celebrity in 2006, Myleene Klass was runner-up, but left with a legion of new fans thanks to her itsy bitsy white bikini and love of a shower. And after beating other old I’m A Celebrity hands to win the series in South Africa and become the first I’m a Celebrity Legend, Myleene, 45, has told how she had been in two minds over whether to take part. She says: “They say don’t go back to an ex and don’t go back to a reheated dinner.
I thought to myself, ‘Oh no, what if it’s not as good?’. ”But she needn’t have worried. She says: “I’ve gone back into the bush and it’s been even bigger, more majestic.
“And it’s not been against any campmates – it’s been against the best of the best. It’s just been mind-blowing. “Everything was magical, very tough – challenging both mentally and physically – and something that I’ve loved throwing myself into.
”Her daughters Ava, 15, and Hero, 12, had talked her into taking part. She says: “Both of them were just begging me to do it. I said to them, ‘I’ll be as strong as I can be’.
“I wanted to show them, and other little girls, keep walking through the fire. ” She left the girls and her three-year-old son Apollo with fiance Simon Motson and went to South Africa. And beating Jordan Banjo to take the title proved she made the right decision.
She says: “I feel so happy. I said if I got a crown on my head it would be the icing on the cake. It’s better than that.
” Myleene was 28 and building a career as a solo artist after her success with pop band Hear’Say when she did her first I’m A Celebrity. She says: “The first time round I wasn’t a mum so there was no jeopardy if I ran around the jungle for a few weeks in a white bikini. “I had the time of my life and took on a few challenges and then
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