The Towie star vowed to redeem herself after previously quitting the Aussie jungle after just three days – but it seems the camp’s stripped back living conditions are proving to be too much
Gemma Collins vowed to redeem herself on I’m A Celeb: South Africa after quitting the Aussie jungle after just three days.
But on Wednesday’s episode, it seems the stripped back living conditions are proving to be too much for the former Towie star as she breaks down in front of Adam Thomas.
Gemma sobs as she tells Adam: “I don’t think I can take it.” Speaking in the Bush Telegraph, she says it’s been “a difficult day and I don’t know why.” “And obviously, I’ve got close with Adam, so I just had to break down and let it all out,” she adds.
As Adam tries to comfort her, Gemma explains: “I’m alright, I feel good in myself mentally. I really do. It’s just tough.”
Adam reminds her they’re on “the long stretch now” but Gemma tells him she’s struggling to cope without her everyday luxuries.
She says: “It’s just I can’t wash properly. I can’t have anything nice. I’ve got to wash up every five minutes.” The pair start to giggle as Gemma adds: “I’m not used to this. I’m just so not used to this.”
Gemma previously demanded someone “call her agent” as she slammed the “rancid” camp. She fumed the conditions “were not right”, calling it “hell”.
The GC also noted a change in atmosphere after Savannah Scrub joined the main camp. Viewers have seen her clash with David Haye and also Sinitta after the singer, 62, seemed to take aim at Gemma’s career as well as her talent, calling her a “comedian”.
She probed the Essex icon about what happened with the musical Chicago – which Gemma had been supposed to star in playing Matron “Mama” Morton in 2022, before pulling out of the production .
Gemma explained, “I had a terrible injury, it was something to do with the insurance.” But Sinitta, who played the character in the production the year before, wouldn’t let it lie, telling Gemma shockingly she thought the casting was a “joke announcement”.
A flustered Gemma responded, “It’s not a joke, Sinitta, I auditioned for it fair and square. Did all the training and everything, had a voice coach.”
Sinitta said: “I think you had just presented something, some awards, and fallen off the stage – it was like you were more of a comedian.”
The singer – seemingly unaware of the effect she was having- went on to compare Gemma to US socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor , saying, “Very camp, very glamorous.”
She added, “You don’t really do anything, but you make a great entrance and make everybody laugh. I didn’t know you could actually sing, dance and all that jazz.”
Fellow campmates, comedian Seann Walsh and former jungle queen Scarlett Moffatt had been listening into the conversation – and looked visibly shocked at Sinitta’’s out-there comments.
When the camera at one point panned to Seann, he put his head in his hands, and made a face at Scarlett , who was wide-eyed and cringing as she sunk into her hammock – but both remained silent.
Clearly furious, Gemma defended herself, saying: “I don’t think you’d get cast as Mama Morton in Chicago if you didn’t pass the audition.”
Talking to camera away from camp, a clearly unsettled Gemma confessed, “I’m not a joke, darling. I am not a joke. I have done everything in my life on my own. So I was just taken aback, but it was just a bit weird .”
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