Vernon Kay is still struggling to reintroduce milk and bread into his diet, six weeks after I’m A Celebrity.
The presenter shed two and a half stone in his three weeks in the camp at the Welsh castle – but has managed to put back on only 9lb.
The 46-year-old says he is “drinking pots of tea, loads of milk, loads of ice cream, trying to fatten myself back up again”.
But he admits: “My stomach has gone, ‘Woah, we were enjoying it with no lactose, no gluten, it was awesome, we were living in sync with each other’. It’s taking some time to adjust.”
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The positive side is that, since coming out of Gwrych Castle in Abergele, Kay now insists his family – wife Tess Daly, 51, and their daughters Phoebe, 16, and Amber, 11 – spend time over dinner without digital devices.
He credits his experience in the camp with teaching him “how important it is to step away” and share quality moments with loved ones. He added: “It’s the one time when everyone sits together.”
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Kay also revealed his campmates on the ITV reality show spent two days sounding each other out, suspicious that one of them could be “the look-at-me person in there for Instagram followers”.
The expected “someone would try to dominate airtime and be overbearing”, but they did not have that person.
Kay added: “Because of the way it was cast, it was easy to be ourselves.”
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Vernon also said the highlight of his experience was watching fellow contestant Jordan North vomiting on a cliff top, before the celebrities even started their first task.
Vernon says he knew at that point there would be “no way” the public would subject him to every trial over Jordan.
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