Joe Swash will get emotional about I’m A Celeb: It gave me every little thing I ever needed
oe Swash stated “I don’t know where I would be” with out I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! after assembly his spouse Stacey Solomon on the truth present and having kids collectively.
The actor and TV presenter, 41, was topped the winner of the ITV sequence in 2008 and went on to current the spin-off present, crediting the expertise for introducing him to X Factor star Solomon throughout the tenth sequence which she received.
The couple have gone on to have three kids collectively; son Rex, born in 2019, daughter Rose, born in October 2021 and daughter Belle, born in February 2023.
Dagenham-born singer Solomon additionally has two sons from two earlier relationships, whereas Swash, who acquired his huge break in 2003 when he was solid in EastEnders, has a son from a earlier relationship.
Swash is among the celebrities who has returned to seem within the all-star model of I’m A Celebrity in South Africa, the place the campmates compete in opposition to each other to be topped the legend of the present.
During Monday’s episode, Swash will get emotional about his time on the present, saying: “Honestly, I genuinely feel like I’m the biggest winner ever from anyone who’s done this show.
“It gave me my wife, my kids, a career for over a decade.
“Growing up, all I wanted to be was a dad and have a family. The jungle came along and I met my wife on the jungle.
“I feel like I’ve won this already. I don’t know where I would be without it. I’d just be that dude that was on EastEnders years ago. Now, I’m Stacey Solomon’s husband.”
Later within the Bush Telegraph, he says he finds his expertise of the jungle exhausting to speak about “without getting emotional” as a result of he wears his coronary heart on his sleeve.
“I feel very blessed, very lucky. It was my chance to come back and say thank you. You pulled me through some very dark times and gave me everything I ever wanted,” he says.
Swash additionally reveals throughout the present that he’s lacking residence, telling his campmates: “I’m really missing my kids… I don’t know how to get rid of the feeling.”
He added: “I was a different person the first time (I did I’m A Celeb). This time there’s so much at home waiting for me.
“Everyone wants to do their family proud and I want to do the same.”
The episode can even see Fatima Whitbread chosen for the Deadly Depths trial and Janice Dickinson departing camp after leaving a notice for her fellow campmates saying she had an “extraordinary experience”.
The campmates learnt that Dickinson has left the present after injuring herself, with actress Helen Flanagan studying a message from the American mannequin and saying: “I think we’re all going to really miss Janice.”
I’m A Celebrity…South Africa airs tonight at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX.